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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
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
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
on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 10:27 AM PDT
with 43 Recommends
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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
on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 08:43 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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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
on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 05:49 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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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
on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 01:24 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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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
on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 10:20 AM PDT
with 139 Recommends
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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
on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 10:30 AM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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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
on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 08:57 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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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
on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 08:31 AM PDT
with 62 Recommends
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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
on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 01:00 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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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
on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 05:50 PM PDT
with 130 Recommends
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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
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
on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 08:59 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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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
on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 07:30 AM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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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
on Thu Sep 19, 2019 at 07:33 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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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
on Thu Sep 19, 2019 at 08:35 AM PDT
with 92 Recommends
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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
on Wed Sep 18, 2019 at 03:07 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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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
on Wed Sep 18, 2019 at 10:03 AM PDT
with 264 Recommends
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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
on Tue Sep 17, 2019 at 10:06 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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