climate change

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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  We're Talking about Climate Change with Outdated Colonial Language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. 

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• 10/17/2021
  

  We Need Poets as Much as Physicists and Artists as Much as Actuaries

  by David P. Barash

  We need the expertise of scientists and technologists to solve big problems, but we need artists to make people care enough about those problems to demand solutions.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  10/14/2021
  

  There's One Way to Save the Planet from Climate Armageddon

  by Michael Klare

  The only solution to the climate crisis is US-China agreement to eliminate fossil fuel use and boycott trade with nations that refuse to follow suit. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/7/2021
  

  The Planet Isn't Doomed. That's Why We Can and Must Act

  by Dagomar Degroot

  Climate "doomism" is a dangerous fatalism about our planet that justifies our political failure to take the necessary actions to slow climate change. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/2/2021
  

  Fire Historian Stephen Pyne: "A Fire Age is Upon Us"

  "The Pyrocene is not just a metaphor: Whatever we decide to call it, a fire age is upon us. Our fire behavior made the problem and will have to unmake it."

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• 9/19/2021
  

  We are All Becoming Cassandras: Leaders Must Heed the People on Climate, Disarmament, and Pandemic

  by Lawrence Wittner

  In classical myth, Cassandra was a lone prophet whose accurate predictions were ignored. Today, a growing share of humanity are playing the Cassandra role against a political and economic elite standing in the way of solutions to the threats of climate change, pandemic disease and nuclear annihilation. 

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  9/16/2021
  

  Cajun Punk Musician Louis Michot on Saving the Bayous

  by Andy Horowitz

  Can the DIY punk ethos of mutual aid, plus broadly distributed solar power, save the Louisiana Cajun country from the climate threat?