Tag: climate change
Saint Petersburg becomes first Florida city to commit to 100% renewables
"We envision a city where families can raise their kids in communities free from toxic pollution, where everyone has the opportunity for a good job and access to healthy, affordable energy."
How to talk to your climate denier uncle this Thanksgiving
“Making America great again means denying Chinese hoaxes.”
Opinion: First thoughts on Trump-era science
Stanford researchers Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer suggestions on coping in a world where science suddenly feels devalued.
Trump can’t hold back the tide of climate action
Market forces, state and local action, and strong social movements could blunt the impacts of a denialist White House.
The terrorism targeting our grandchildren
These children, our own children and grandchildren, are facing terrors because of the self-serving corporate demand for profit over human need.
US youth win the right to sue US government for inaction...
A group of US youth, ranging in age from 9 to 20, were granted the right to sue the federal government and fossil fuel industry over climate change and environmental degradation that endangers their future.
After Trump elected, nearly 200 nations proclaim “urgent duty” to implement...
This comes just over a week after the election of Donald Trump, who has vowed to pull the United states out of the Paris Agreement and has called climate change a Chinese-created hoax.
Stephen Hawking: We must find another planet to live on
“Six years ago I was warning about pollution and overcrowding, they have gotten worse since then,” Hawking said.
As the planet warms, Trump sends a chill wind through Marrakech
Fortunately, the fate of the planet is not in the hands of one man. It's up to movements everywhere to save it.
Four years of Donald Trump could sink the planet
If Trump isn’t going to pare CO2 emissions significantly, then the US alone could cook the planet, even if China and others act more responsibly.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.