Environment

Here are ten upbeat environmental stories from this year that prove it’s not all doom and gloom.

A 100% Just Green New Deal doesn’t just offer a blanket promise of good green jobs and training for everyone, it will ensure that jobs training programs and investments in job creation are targeted and available first to the communities that need them most.

In other words, if someone could collect and recycle all the unrecycled plastic on earth, this person would be richer than any individual on the planet.

“Addressing climate change effectively and justly requires us to transform the unjust social and economic systems that gave us climate change in the first place.”

The poll, which was conducted between Nov. 29 and Dec. 10, came just after the U.S. government published a critical climate report last month with warnings of human-caused global warming having major consequences on the livelihoods of Americans.

"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." 

The sad truth is it may not be possible to punish all the climate criminals in Congress with one-way rides on icebergs.

“People not polluters.”

"The scope of illegal mining in the Amazon, especially in indigenous territories and protected natural areas, has grown exponentially in recent years, with the rise in the price of gold."

"We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people. Thank you."