The Most Important Decade in Human History Starts Now
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The Most Important Decade in Human History Starts Now

Bharat Dogra The year that dawns on January 1 2020 is no ordinary year. Several leading scientists and scientist groups have repeatedly said that the life-nurturing conditions of our planet are badly threatened. Due to a number of factors this year is going to be a very important year if time-bound solutions of this survival…

Urban Farming: Cuba’s Response to Climate-Driven Food Crises
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Urban Farming: Cuba’s Response to Climate-Driven Food Crises

Paul Brown   When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming.   That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports. And what worked then for…

The Realism of Bernie Sanders’ Climate Policy
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The Realism of Bernie Sanders’ Climate Policy

Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha   As Bernie Sanders brings his plans for a Green New Deal to Iowa, one part is proving most resonant: the idea that, as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs.   Interestingly, this…

Global Climate Disaster: Science is Screaming
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Global Climate Disaster: Science is Screaming

Jake Johnson   An alarming United Nations report released this week said global temperatures are on track to rise as much as 3.2°C by the end of the century, meaning only drastic and unprecedented emissions reductions can stave off the most devastating consequences of the climate crisis.   The annual Emissions Gap report from the…

The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All
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The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All

Naomi Oreskes It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late…

Extinction Rebellion (XR) Sweeps the World
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) Sweeps the World

Robert Hunziker It is the fastest-growing environmental movement ever. As such, it is only too obvious that “people get it” when it comes to climate change/global warming because they’re jumping aboard like swarms of locusts. In fact, XR’s truthful exposure of the climate crisis/global warming is single-handedly turning average citizens of the world into fighting…

Hands off Greta Thunberg!
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Hands off Greta Thunberg!

The young Swedish woman Greta Thunberg has faced an exceptional outpouring of hatred, expressed as the most vile macho attacks, the most sordid insinuations about her mental health, the lowest calumnies about her autonomy, and even barely veiled death threats. You don’t have to look far to find the source of these ever-growing waves of…

‘How Dare You’: Greta Thunberg’s Powerful Speech to the UN
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‘How Dare You’: Greta Thunberg’s Powerful Speech to the UN

Greta Thunberg, the young climate crisis activist on September 23 opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with an angry condemnation of world leaders for failing to take strong measures to combat climate crisis. Below is her full speech. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on…