climate change

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• 6/16/19
  

  Silent Spring: Why Rachel Carson’s words still ring true today

  by Catherine Whitlock

  Any future US president would do well to heed the likes of Rachel Carson and her successors and invest in clean energy policies, protect the environment, and promote biodiversity.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Are Historians Doing Enough to Address Climate Change?

  by Walter G. Moss

  For too long historians also paid too little attention to the most important topic of our day.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/11/19
  

  What Does It Mean to be "Great" Amidst Global Climate Change

  by David Bromwich

  How can Robert Frost, Graham Greene, Immanuel Kant, and others help us understand values and climate change?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/20/19
  

  Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

  by Kenneth Seligson

  While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/7/19
  

  Hamburgers Have Been Conscripted Into the Fight Over the Green New Deal. The History of American Beef Shows Why

  by Joshua Specht

  Hamburgers are the newest front in the culture wars.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/25/19
  

  Suicide Watch on Planet Earth

  by Tom Engelhardt

  As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists Appeared.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  4/12/19
  

  Why Democratic Presidential Candidates Should Make Climate Change Their #1 Issue

  by Walter G. Moss

  Nothing else—including medical care, the economy, income inequality, immigration, racism, or the gender or race of a candidate—is more important.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 3/26/19
  

  How the Little Ice Age Changed History

  Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures—and may have given rise to the modern world.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/28/19
  

  What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  A Wide-Ranging History Explaining How Climate Change Could End Washington’s Global Dominion

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• 3/3/19
  

  The English Diggers, the "Commons," and the Green New Deal

  by Ed Simon

  The idea of the “commons” as a space of collective ownership, responsibility, engagement, and possibility must be a metaphor that the left draws from rhetorically. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths

  by Walter G. Moss

  How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/19/19
  

  A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy

  The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/31/19
  

  European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

  by Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis

  This new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/31/19
  

  What Green New Dealers can learn from the first New Deal

  by Eric Rauchway

  The hard part of a Green New Deal is not environmental reform. It is social justice.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/28/19
  

  Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change

  by Crystal Eddins

  Marginalized communities of color and nations of the Global South are generally most vulnerable to natural disasters associated with climate change.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  1/6/19
  

  The history of science shows how to change the minds of science deniers

  by Ephrat Livni

  By understanding the history of science, we can “keep the world from falling apart.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/3/19
  

  What Historians Can Teach Us About Climate Change

  by Vasile Ersek

  The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East echo over millennia to the present day.

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• SOURCE: The Santa Fe New Mexican
  12-15-2018
  

  Cultural sites at risk from climate change

  by Richard Moe

  Climate change threatens much of our history, especially the history embodied in our “cultural sites,” the ruins and remnants of the first Americans passed down through multiple generations to the Native Americans of today.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  11-17-2018
  

  Daniel Pipes warns that droughts in the Middle East are driving immigration

  "Tens and hundreds of millions of people will want to leave the Middle East and Africa; where will they want to go to? Mostly to the West: especially Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia."