From this: Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced a new office at the Justice Department that will focus exclusively on environmental justice. The office, which will prioritize low-income communities that have been hit hard by pollution and contamination, was launched in partnership …
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As Elizabeth Warren points out in this brief video, over the six years since the Paris Climate Accord was signed, the world’s 60 largest banks have poured $4.6 trillion into fossil fuel extraction. Of course, through accounting tricks and vague …
From this piece called: “Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC” (Responding to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), climate scientist Michael Mann, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State who will …
Apparently, the US House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign. Thus far, top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell have testified concerning their roles.
When we think about the Maldives, we do well to leave conventional wisdom behind. From Reuters: The Maldivian president and ministers held the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels …
There was a pop song about 30 years ago that began, “I believe the children are our future,” which I found amusing. I wish I could have interviewed the lyricist and asked him if his initial idea was that old …
This is inspiring, though I’m afraid I’d rather my kids weren’t about to bring babies into a world of nuclear saber-rattling, trending world fascism, white nationalism, and the rejection of science leading to environmental collapse and climate catastrophe.
Yesterday, a (sarcastic) reader asked: If we all lived in mud huts for 103 years would it put the ice back? Today, she went “back for seconds”: What’s wrong with mud huts? Humanity survived millions of years in them. Aren’t …
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Re: the photos here, a (sarcastic) reader asks: If we all lived in mud huts for 103 years would it put the ice back? Actually, yes. That is, if our individual carbon footprints and other impacts on the environment were …
Here’s a reader with a distinctly negative reaction of climate activists. She writes: I want to stop being demonized by people with bad intent and too much time on their hands who use social media to scare people or point …
