climate change

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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? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/1/2021
  

  The U.S. Should Look to Cuba for Hurricane Mitigation

  by Mikael Wolfe

  Despite the comparatively meager resources available in the island nation, Cuba's civil defense systems, developed during the Cold War, have been remarkably successful in mitigating mass death and displacement from hurricanes. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2021
  

  What if the Coronavirus Crisis Is Just a Trial Run?

  by Adam Tooze

  The disjointed and haphazard global response to the COVID pandemic bodes poorly for the world's capacity for coordinated action to face inevitable crisies in the near future. The problem isn't a lack of means but a lack of commitment to collective action.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/30/2021
  

  Uncovering and Protecting the Black History of Nantucket

  by Tiya Miles

  "Although the Black community of New Guinea has passed into history, its mark on the landscape remains, a reminder that Nantucket was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/31/2021
  

  Hurricane Ida Shows the Climate Dystopia Ahead for All of Us

  by Andy Horowitz

  "Structural problems need structural solutions. Don’t give charity to Louisiana because it’s unique. Demand that Congress take meaningful action, because Louisiana is not unique, and you may be next."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/7/2021
  

  Chicago Versus Lake Michigan

  The history of Chicago is defined by efforts to tame water for navigation, sanitation, and drinking. Climate change is raising the stakes of that battle. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7/11/2021
  

  The Fires This Time: The Climate View from California

  by Rebecca Gordon

  This month's heat emergencies signal that the catastrophic effects of climate change are definitely here and will hit the disadvantaged the hardest.

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• 7/11/2021
  

  Will US-China Relations Be Defined by Militaristic Competition or Climate Cooperation?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Despite the urgent need for global cooperation on the climate crisis, and significant instances of cooperation in the past, the leaders of the US and the People's Republic of China appear intent on pursuing a Cold War. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/7/2021
  

  Warming is Clearly Visible in New US ‘Climate Normal’ Datasets

  by Russ Schumacher and Becky Bolinger

  Meteorologists and climatologists are already starting to incorporate these new normals into our work. But when you hear the term “normal,” keep in mind that it reflects a 30-year snapshot and represents a different reality today than it did 30, 60 or 100 years ago.