climate change

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/2/2022
  

  The Fatal Attraction to Florida

  by Diane Roberts

  Growth may make the Sunshine State unlivable. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/7/2022
  

  Not Just Oil: The Electricity Industry Fed Climate Change Denial for Decades

  Like the petroleum industry, America's electric utilities deliberately sowed confusion about the growing scientific consensus on climate change in order to influence policy and protect profits. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/12/2022
  

  On Climate, the British Monarchy Mortgaged the Planet's Future

  by Priya Satia

  The monarchy, as a cultural core of the British empire, papered over the separation and alienation among humans resulting from the conversion of the Earth to a set of exploitable commodities. 

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• SOURCE: The At
  8/7/2022
  

  History's Greatest Barrier to Climate Action—the Senate—May Have Fallen

  Critics have legitimate disagreements with the scope and urgency of climate action enabled by the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act. But it's a departure from precedent for the Senate to do anything at all. 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  Climate Change Just Erased the Past in Kentucky. Where Will it Happen Next?

  by Tina A. Irvine

  The archives of the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County were inundated by flood waters on July 28—a devastating loss of one community's history and culture, and a warning to historians that our knowledge of the past is at risk from climate change. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7/5/2022
  

  Forget the Metaphorical Heat – The Literal Temperatures are the Problem

  by Tom Engelhardt

  "Somehow, in this country, climate change has yet to become a significant part of the national debate or mainstream politics."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/22/2022
  

  Will the War in Ukraine Doom International Climate Action?

  by Michael Klare

  The international tension provoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine couldn't come at a worse moment for efforts to advance action to fight climate change.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/13/2022
  

  How the Resurgent Oil Industry is Driving the Politics and Reaping the Profits of Gas Prices

  by Gregory Brew

  Unlike past moments of high prices, American consumers and businesses today are facing no pressure to lower their consumption of oil and gas, even as the climate crisis grows increasingly dire. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/31/2022
  

  Don't Open Up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; Close the SUV Loophole

  Releasing oil from the strategic reserve is compounding yesterday's mistakes with today's, and a step in the wrong direction for the climate, says New Yorker science and climate reporter Elizabeth Kolbert. Start treating SUV's like passenger cars under fuel efficiency regulations instead.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  3/11/2022
  

  We're Talking about Climate Change with Outdated Colonial Language

  by Priya Satia

  The dominant climate activist theme of sacrificing in the present to protect the future is rooted in the intellectual history of economics which has driven the profligate consumption and gross inequality that threatens the planet. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  2/24/2022
  

  The US Military is an Obstacle to Climate Action

  by Michael Franczak

  The Kyoto protocols are inherently undermined by negotiated pledges that preserve the ability of the Pentagon to burn fossil fuels around the globe. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2/24/2022
  

  China Digs Its Own Grave (and Ours, Too)

  by Alfred McCoy

  History is a poor tool for predicting how the post-fossil fuel world will be organized. But it's clear that a successful world order will have to be based in acknowledging the climate crisis. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  The 20th Century's Lessons for the Climate Crisis? Pragmatism, Unity, and Urgency

  by Walter G. Moss

  The Great Depression and Fascism were two great crises made worse and ultimately more destructive by hesitation, division, and ideological resistance to action. The stakes of the climate crisis are incalculably higher, and humanity can't afford to repeat last century's mistakes. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/28/2022
  

  Despite What You Heard on Joe Rogan's Podcast, Climate Modeling is Our Best Hope for the Future

  by Mark Maslin

  Jordan Peterson's recent comments that climate change modeling is arbitrary and selective is flat-out wrong; the scientific effort to generate and test climate models is working and is essential to the survival of humanity. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/10/2022
  

  The Reparations Fight Must Include Costs of Climate Change

  by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

  The movement for reparations should be informed by the broader politics of anticolonial liberation struggles which sought not just to transfer resources but to raise new questions about the basic organiation of societies on a global scale.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  12/16/2021
  

  There are No Human Rights Without Human Survival

  by Alfred McCoy

  The political struggles of the current international order will be rendered meaningless by climate change unless that nation-based order can learn to cooperate. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  12/1/2021
  

  Australia's Spy Agency Identified Climate Risk 40 Years Ago; The Government Protected the Coal Industry Instead

  "Concerns from high levels of government show that from the beginning, the country was seeing the climate change issue through the prism of its fossil fuels."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/25/2021
  

  Climate Change Threatens Smithsonian

  “We’re kind of in trial and error,” said Ryan Doyle, a facilities manager at the Smithsonian. “It’s about managing water.”

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  11/10/2021
  

  What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change Since 1959

  "Before San Francisco’s Summer of Love, before Woodstock, the peak of the ’60s counterculture and all that stuff that seemed ancient history to me, the heads of the oil industry were privately informed by their own leaders that their products would eventually alter the climate of the entire planet."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/2021
  

  How do you Teach Kids about Climate when They've Been Raised amid Cultivated Doubt?

  Although young Americans are more likely to accept the scientific consensus on climate change, there is a significant portion who doesn't, making science education another culture war battleground.