Tag: COP23
Respect existence or expect resistance
“It’s time that we take responsibility for our own lives … that we create a world which gives us the power to act, instead of hoping that other people will solve problems.”
There was progress at the Global Climate Summit. Now urgent action...
To create a climate-safe world doesn't simply require impressive targets for the next two decades – it requires urgent action in the next two years.
Oregon and Washington join 20 countries to phase out coal by...
"Phasing out coal power is good news for the climate, for our health and for our kids."
Trump’s climate COP-out and the movement it has unleashed
The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is a catastrophe, but it has inspired a whirlwind of bottom-up climate activism.
Hundreds of protesters shut out as the Trump admin. gives fossil...
Representatives from fossil fuels companies were invited to speak on a panel alongside White House officials.
‘We are still in’: Sen. Markey & US lawmakers stage anti-Trump...
“We’re here to tell the world that Donald Trump does not represent the majority view in our country, that overwhelmingly people do believe that the planet is dangerously warming and that human activity is causing it and that we have to do something about it.”
People act where US fails on climate
If we are to have a livable future, we must act rapidly.
Jerry Brown lashes out at COP23 climate protesters: “Let’s put you...
Activists interrupted Brown at the U.N. climate conference calling to keep fossil fuels in the ground and pursue more radical solutions.
Ahead of COP23 climate talks: 25,000 march demanding end to ‘era...
"We don't have time to play games of climate denial or greenwashing of dirty energy."
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.