Youth Climate Strike Friday, March 15, 2019

Youth Climate Strike Friday, March 15, 2019 In a most inspiring development, hundreds of Youth Climate Strike groups have appeared around the world after Greta Thunberg‘s courageous one-person protest in Sweden caught fire. They have called for a global Youth Climate Strike on March 15th. Below we reproduce the mission statement and demands of the…

‘United We Will Rise’

‘United We Will Rise’ This year, the world is witnessing one of the biggest youth-driven social movements of all time.   Tens of thousands of children and teenagers have already walked out of school in protest against the alarming lack of immediate action being taken against climate change.   And now, climate strikers have published…

In Response to Lies and Hate, Let Me Make Some Things Clear About My Climate Strike

In Response to Lies and Hate, Let Me Make Some Things Clear About My Climate Strike Originally posted to Facebook, the following is a statement from 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as a response to circulating “rumours and lies” as well as “enormous amounts of hate” directed at her as a result of her…

Terrifying Assessment of a Himalayan Melting

Terrifying Assessment of a Himalayan Melting While the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report released this week shows that the Himalaya will face catastrophic meltdown during this century if there is no immediate effort to reduce the world’s carbon emissions.   The voluminous 627-page…

Billionaires are the Leading Cause of Climate Change

Billionaires are the Leading Cause of Climate Change Recently, the United Nations released a damning report. The short version: We have about 12 years to actually do something to prevent the worst aspects of climate change. That is, not to prevent climate change—we’re well past that point—but to prevent the worst, most catastrophic elements of…

Anthropocene Age and Relevance of Tagore and Gandhi

Anthropocene Age and Relevance of Tagore and Gandhi The earth is today facing a critical ecological crisis. A few months back Dr. Sanmatha Nath Ghosh, the socialist leader of West Bengal, arranged a discussion on “21st Century Socialism”. Socialists and Marxists all over the world are today deeply engaged in discussions on the worsening environmental…

Why Extinction Rebellion Protesters Are Breaking the Law

Why Extinction Rebellion Protesters Are Breaking the Law “A 4°C future is incompatible with an organised global community,” climate and energy professor Kevin Anderson once told Grist. Even if we cut emissions by 3.5 percent a year after 2020, we’ll hit 4 degrees Celsius warming by the end of this century. Just let that sink…

Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide

Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide Chloé Farand     More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis and take drastic steps to cut emissions to net zero by 2025.   Thousands of people…