environment

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/20/2021
  

  Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths: The Post-Petroleum Resource Race and What to Make of It

  by Michael Klare

  Renewable energy may close the door on the era of oil war, but it's imperative that industrial nations not allow a new global conflict over access to the materials needed to build a renewable energy infrastructure. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/21/2021
  

  Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal

  by Naomi Klein

  The Texas blackouts show the political and social dead ends of the market revolution and the fossil fuel economy, says Naomi Klein. Politicians and industries wedded to the status quo are attacking the idea of a "Green New Deal" because it's encouraging people to imagine alternatives. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/17/2021
  

  Texas’s Power Grid Failing Shows why Biden Needs to Go Big on Infrastructure

  by Teal Arcadi

  The lesson of the Interstate Highway system is that when it comes to large and necessary infrastructure programs, opportunistic partisanship is better than laboriously building a bipartisan coalition.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  12/2/2020
  

  "A Life on Our Planet" Provides Environmental Hope

  by Walter G. Moss

  Although the recent Netflix documentary on the global environment describes a grim present, it explains a path forward that is simple (if the political will can be found). 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Viral Consequences

  by David Marks

  The indifferent response of the Trump administration to the COVID-19 pandemic and the repressive police response to protests are a signal that we need a political and social transformation to address the ongoing global climate crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  5/22/2020
  

  Greening the Old New Deal

  National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  Honor the Work of Brazil's Villas-Bôas Brothers by Protecting the Amazon's Indigenous

  by John Hemming

  The Villas-Bôas brothers worked with Brazil's indigenous people to balance the preservation of their Amazonian lands with inclusion in modernizing society. The policies of Jair Bolsonaro are a dire threat to their work, the survival of indigenous peoples, and the planet.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/18/2020
  

  7.7 Million Young People Are Unemployed. We Need a New ‘Tree Army.’

  by Collin O'Mara

  Today, there’s plenty to do for a revitalized conservation corps that would put young Americans back to work.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/28/2020
  

  The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  by Michael T. Klare

  If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that it creates the conditions necessary to do what we have known was necessessary for decades: drastically curtail fossil fuel consumption.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  50 Years Later, Earth Day’s Unsolved Problem: How to Build a More Sustainable World

  The first celebration called for people to change their relationship with the planet. After a half-century, we’re still figuring out what that means.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/20/2020
  

  The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer

  Denis Hayes organized the first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, he has continued fighting for environmental justice.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  A proposed EPA rule prioritizes industry profit over people’s lives

  by Mona Hanna-Attisha

  Limiting access to peer-reviewed science undermines the agency’s effectiveness.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg News
  September 20, 2019
  

  History is on California's Side in Emissions Imbroglio With Trump

  by Andrew M Harris

  The Trump administration claims sole power to regulate tailpipe standards. However, professors say most populous state has law, facts on its side. 

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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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• 5/19/19
  

  Anton Chekhov: Environmental Prophet for Our Planet

  by Walter G. Moss

  Like Netflix's documentary Our Planet, the Russian writer often displayed a deep love of nature in his hundreds of stories and plays.

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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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• 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: National Security Archive
  9/24/18
  

  Presidents from Reagan to Obama ultimately recognized the importance of science and high-level international cooperation in addressing climate change

  Contrary to the popular impression documents show that Republican presidents have pushed for the US to be an environmental leader.

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• 7/15/18
  

  India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis.  A Historian Knows How They Got There.

  by Harini Nagendra

  It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).

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• SOURCE: The Daily Californian
  4-22-18
  

  Berkeley’s Carolyn Merchant explains what ecofeminism is

  Merchant, along with various other female academics, is responsible for integrating two concepts — environmentalism and feminism — into a study known as ecofeminism.