Tag: climate change

“This problem is not going away and it is likely to get worse."

There has long been a clarion call to save the planet for future generations. It becomes increasingly clear that it is the younger generation that will save us all.

“Tens of thousands of activists took to the streets, occupied mines, blocked rail lines, linked arms, paddled in kayaks and held community meetings in 13 countries, pushing the boundaries of conventional protest to find new ways to demand coal, oil and gas stay in the ground.”

It isn’t just the heat. Warming could create new dustbowls in the Middle East, making raising enough food impossible.

In Vietnam the incidents of dead fish have become so bad that soldiers are being deployed to bury them.

The Koch groups have been targeting state budgets as a vehicle to protect polluter interests, with limited success.

Related cases brought by youth to protect the atmosphere are pending before other U.S. courts in the federal district court in Oregon and in the state courts of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Massachusetts and Oregon.

There is some good news on the emissions front, and new renewable energy installations are key to it.

Coral bleaching events in 1998 led to a death of 16 percent of the world’s coral. This time it may be worse.

The Paris climate change agreement may be an ambitious and balanced plan and a historic turning point in the goal of reducing global warming, but according to French ambassador to the United Nation, Francois Delattre, - : “On espere, -- One hopes.”