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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…
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…
The week from September 20 till September 27 has been designated as the week of the ‘Climate Strike’. It is an unprecedented event in its ambition to disrupt business as usual. Thousands of events are taking place around the globe to demand that world leaders pay attention to the looming climate catastrophe that threatens our…
“Dr. Doom” fellow students joked as we walked out of our department seminar. It was 1998 and the presenter was Richard Gammon, a co-author of the first IPCC report. I didn’t share my fellow University of Washington grad students’ joke. I was uneasy, wondering about the timing of forecasts and feedback loops. My grad school…
Activists of All Ages, Labour Groups, Faith Leaders, Businesses and More Join Youth-Led Climate Strikes in Intergenerational Demand for Climate Action: With two weeks to go until the September 20th climate strikes, there are over 2,500 strikes registered globally and over 500 strikes taking place across the US. In the US, the Youth Climate Strike…
Jack Crawford Some days ago, Time magazine published an article with the headline: “Want to Stop Climate Change? Then It’s Time to Fall Back in Love with Nuclear Energy”. In it, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix, evokes the imminent threat of climate catastrophe to argue, “There are paths out…
The 2018 report from the International Panel on Climate Change gave us 12 years to cut global emissions in half, propelling the issue of Climate Emergency into the public eye in a manner hitherto unprecedented. The consequences of ongoing environmental disaster had been apparent for some time, particularly in parts of the global south, but…
If you tried to design a program with the aim of offending the top brass of the world’s most powerful corporations and the politicians whose careers they bankroll, you’d get something like what Bernie Sanders unveiled today in his $16.3 trillion Green New Deal platform. That’s part of the point. “We need a president who…
Towards the end of 2018 a special report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned humanity that it has only 12 years (up to 2030) to check climate change within limits necessary to protect life-sustaining conditions on earth. Hence the decade 2020–30 will be of critical importance for checking this most important environmental…
Business as usual is what’s doing us in. We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in the midst of an enormous physical crisis. Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere of our world is changing rapidly, and that atmospheric change is producing record heat. July was the…
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