The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Teens Sue U.S. Government over Climate Inaction As Youth Revolt Spreads
An unprecedented, massive legal campaign led by young Americans, accusing the government of negligence in dealing with the climate crisis, is playing out in courtrooms across the nation.
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News Roundup: Corporations Demand Carbon Cap, While Harvard Professors Urge Divestment
Landmark UN analysis concludes that a global roll-out of clean energy would shave only a tiny fraction off economic growth while diverting hundred of billions of dollars away from fossil fuels.
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Stepping Forward, American Scientists Warn of “Irreversible Changes” from Climate
The world is at growing risk of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes because of a warming climate, America’s premier scientific society warned.
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To Save Ourselves, Is It Time for a Global Climate Insurgency?
The action of the Arctic 30 wasn't just a protest on an Arctic oil platform. It may be prophetic of something more: the emergence of a global insurgency that challenges the very legitimacy of those who are destroying our planet.
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Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
If the record ongoing releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are aided and abetted by massive releases of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, life as we humans have known it might be at an end on this planet.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
There's no conspiracy underway to destroy Earth. UN delegates inside the Warsaw climate conference, shirking their obligations to us and future generations, are simply following the logic of a system contingent on endless growth in the interest of profit.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Wants to Be Climate Leader – While Fracking Lots of Oil
In August, the 75-year-old, three-term governor signed into law SB4, ensuring fracking for at least the next two years while exempting the practice from thorough review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
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At Warsaw Climate Summit, World Awaits Leaders to Stop Posturing and Start Acting
As the Philippines reels from a massive typhoon that reportedly killed 10,000 people, global climate envoys meeting Monday in Poland will begin two weeks of negotiations to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive climate change pact in 2015.
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EXPOSED: U.K. FRACKERS REPLICATE U.S. FRACKING INDUSTRY'S LIES AND MISINFORMATION
The oil and gas industry, along with stealth PR handlers, touted Britain's fracking future at last week's U.K. Shale Gas Environmental Summit in London — taking a page from American industry's playbook by sowing scientific doubt about the risks of fracking.
