Tag: climate crisis

“BP, Shell, and Total are still drilling us into a deeper climate emergency, and that has to stop before they can claim any credibility.”

The U.S. election in November is critical, not just because of Donald Trump’s neo-fascisinm, but primarily because if the climate-change-denying and fossil-fuel supporting Republican Party retains power.

New Zealand could be the first country in the world to require its major financial institutions to report on the risks posed...

Climate change is an emergency. And so is Trumpism. Flames are approaching what’s left of democratic structures in the United States.

There are people in Washington who say the Green New Deal is too expensive and we can’t afford it. What is the alternative? A planet which is burning up?

“Even if the U.S. government has decided to leave the Paris Agreement, we see in the U.S. an enormous movement in favor to climate action.”

If emission reductions are large and sustained, we can still meet the Paris goals and avoid the most severe damage to the natural world, the economy and people. But worryingly, we also have time to make it far worse.

“There's still many things that we can save, but that's going to require action and that action is going to have to happen soon.”

“The report fails to address the vital need to end the extraction, processing, and burning of fossil fuels, and instead sees a future for fossil fuels tied to the false promise of carbon capture.”

Trump’s malfeasance is now more palpable than his fearmongering. The personal is political.