Monday, June 5, 2023

Tag: climate emergency

Over 84 million people forcibly displaced by climate emergency, insecurity, and...

“The international community must redouble its efforts to make peace, and at the same time must ensure resources are available to displaced communities and their hosts.”

220+ medical journals unite to demand urgent action on climate emergency

“The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature,” warn journals in unprecedented joint editorial.

Greta Thunberg: New IPCC Report is a wake-up call for all...

“The climate crisis is not going away. It’s only escalating, and it’s only growing more intense by the hour.”

Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s...

A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.

Jane Fonda arrested: We are in a climate emergency. I have...

We speak with Jane Fonda about her climate activism and why she started Fire Drill Fridays.

‘Climate emergency. Look it up.’: Activists and experts celebrate New Oxford...

“STAY LOUD, it's working,” declared Greenpeace Canada.

Fascism then and now

A new book  I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Fascism, Then and...

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Trump’s repeat “birthright citizenship” babble: Dead wrong on the facts, the law and amendments

Trump’s latest scam again pushes the envelope to find new ways for this loser to lose again.
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The Hard Hat Riot: A forgotten flashpoint in America’s culture wars

The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences—a seminal  moment in America’s culture wars.

For media, giving in to debt limit blackmail was a triumph of bipartisanship

When Congress passed the debt ceiling deal hammered out by President Joe Biden and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, centrist media celebrated.

This Pride month let’s remember: corporations are not allies

The Target company’s capitulation to homophobes and transphobes is a testament to the dangers of relying on corporations to uphold social justice.

The compulsion to intervene

Americans profess to care about the sacrifices of those who serve the nation in uniform. Why don’t we care enough to keep them from harm in the first place?