Tag: environment
You are stealing our future: Greta Thunberg, 15, condemns the world’s...
"We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people. Thank you."
Michigan Gov. signs bill to keep Line 5 pipeline flowing
"We are deeply disappointed Gov. Snyder approved legislation that will keep oil pumping through the damaged Line 5 Pipeline for another decade or more."
US & other big polluters obstruct UN climate talks, stalling efforts...
"It frustrates me to see those countries historically responsible for climate change causing – refusing to operationalize their legal obligations to assist developing countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable development and adapt to climate change."
Canadian government declares oil trains safe and plans to get into...
Here's why that's bad news for the communities in both Canada and the U.S. where this influx of oil train traffic will pass.
The past 5 years were the Arctic’s warmest on record
"The good news is it's not too late to correct the course. As leaders meet this week at the UN climate talks in Poland, we urge them to run, not crawl, towards reducing emissions and accelerating a clean energy transition."
School strike for climate: Meet 15-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who inspired...
“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”
Biological annihilation
To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.
‘Our leaders are behaving like children:’ Teen climate activist confronts world...
"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”
‘We gonna rise up, rise up ’til it’s won!:’ 140+ arrested...
"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."
60,000 liters of oil spills from pipeline into Brazilian bay
"It was a leak of significant proportions, with an impact on the mangroves."
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Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.
The US-Israeli war on Iran is illegal. Here’s why that matters.
If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.
Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...
What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.
Nicotine-based vaping likely causes lung, oral cancers, new comprehensive review
The review noted that the aerosols exhibit nearly all ten "key characteristics of carcinogens" identified by the World Health Organization.
‘Product of USA’ becomes a real standard enforced by USDA
The new standard, finalized in March 2024 and fully enforceable since the start of 2026, closes this gap and practice that often misled consumers who believed they were supporting American ranchers.