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The climate crisis is accelerating. According to a new report released from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), around the planet, warming oceans are particularly dangerous. Put in simple terms: Oceans are getting...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 08:39 AM PDT
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Fairy Tales of Eternal Economic Growth Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN of 23 September 2019 has received considerable coverage, taking on nearly legendary status after only 2 days. This is as it should be. Greta is passionate, eloquent, and fearless....
by senorjoel
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 02:36 AM PDT
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Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Monday gave a passionate speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York. In the speech, Thunberg called upon adults to take action and actively work to curb the climate crisis. In...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 10:27 AM PDT
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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com Greta Thunberg delivered a no-holds barred, impassioned speech to the United Nations General Assembly Climate Summit, on Monday, September 23, flatly declaring, “My message is that we’ll be watching you. “This...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 08:43 PM PDT
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If you rented out a property and the tenants trashed the place, you would want them to repair the damage. NONE of us own any part of our planet. We lease it from the next generations and hold it in trust for them. We may not be entirely responsible for...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 05:49 PM PDT
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Another reality-shattering stunner from the front pages of the world’s most important news: President Trump (USA) and President Bolsonaro (Brazil) have just created a “nationalist alliance” positing that climate change is a HOAX. As The Amazon Burns,...
by rflctammt
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 01:24 PM PDT
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"I shouldn't be up here. I should be back at school on the other side of the ocean," 16-year-old Greta Thunberg told the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Monday. "Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 10:20 AM PDT
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I am struck daily by the lack of vision and imagination by the status quo when it comes to solving the immediate problem of global heating. The country holds the technology to seriously ramp down ...
by MaryAEnglish
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on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 10:30 AM PDT
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In recent years, internationalism―cooperation among nations for promotion of the common good―has acquired a bad reputation. Of course, internationalism has long been anathema to the political Right, where a primitive tribalism and its successor,...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 08:57 AM PDT
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Early Monday morning, climate activists gathered in Washington, D.C., to block major traffic intersections in a protest with The Coalition to Shut Down DC. The United Nations climate summit begins today in New York City. Leaders from around the...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 08:31 AM PDT
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This diary is an outreach from EV Revolution and my #RbPi series , joining the Climate Strike Blogathon led by the indomitable Angmar and OccupyStephanie. It is often said — and I’ve heard it ...
by Assaf
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Disruption is not a good thing for the web of life. It often leads to extinction. One of the Earths most spectacular events occurs just once a year, though the timing varies depending on the reef location, is coral spawning. The phenomenon is brought...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 05:50 PM PDT
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In my September 19, 2019, post Extreme Silence of the Media , I wrote about how the Public Citizen report outlined strategies that local media outlets could use to tie extreme weather events to ...
by occupystephanie
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on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 04:34 PM PDT
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I posted this diary two weeks ago. Posting again in honor of the global climate strike. I believe it to be the most important thing I have ever written. Heading out to hit the streets -Mike There have been fictional disaster movies where the heads of...
by Mystic54
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on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 08:59 AM PDT
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If you’re not following her you should. Make sure you go to youtube and check out her speeches to groups around Europe.
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by TexDem
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on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 07:30 AM PDT
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This essay is an adaptation of a response to a friend, who went on about, well, yes, there’s global warming, but it’ll take centuries, and it’s not a big deal yet, and probably won’t be in our lifetimes…. and then sent me a link to a CNN article that...
by douglassmyth
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on Thu Sep 19, 2019 at 07:33 PM PDT
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Imelda wasn’t a category anything. It was never a hurricane at all. It barely reached tropical storm intensity in time to collect a name before passing over land and has already disintegrated into post-storm “remnants.” However, following the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Sep 19, 2019 at 08:35 AM PDT
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Fall brings changing weather and the beginning of the school year. And now, it brings cataclysmic weather events, the burning of the Amazon, destructive hurricanes and wildfires, along with leadership emerging from youth around the world, calling all...
by EARTHWORKS
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on Wed Sep 18, 2019 at 03:07 PM PDT
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On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump tweeted that he was “revoking California’s federal waiver on emissions.” Which is interesting mostly because California’s waiver doesn’t come from a regulation at the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s not the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 18, 2019 at 10:03 AM PDT
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Suppressing Science In a Guardian article six former government scientist describe their experience attempting to tell the American people about the impact of climate change and how those efforts were aggressively thwarted by the Trump administration....
by Austin Bailey
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on Tue Sep 17, 2019 at 10:06 AM PDT
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