environment

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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.

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• 1/4/18
  

  Doing History in the Age of Trump

  An interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on the perspective historians offer.

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• 10-28-17
  

  Trump’s Racking Up the Worst Record on the Environment Since Reagan

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Case in point: His attempt to roll back national monuments created by Barack Obama.

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• 8-27-17
  

  We’ve Come to Think of the Anthropocene as Bad

  by Jan Kunnas

  But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  1-31-17
  

  Scott Pruitt Will Make America Great Again — For Polluters

  by Bill Moyers

  In this exclusive web essay, Bill Moyers takes on President Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.

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• 9-25-16
  

  If You Want a Future with Fewer Floods, Fires, and Other Environmental Disasters, Vote Democratic

  by Walter G. Moss

  Vote for Trump if you want the planet to keep burning up.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2-25-14
  

  Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Come to Terms with Our Slow-Motion Environmental Apocalypse?

  by Ira Chernus

  Our religious myths have prepared us for that cosmic spark that will obliterate all life in an instant. It's not so easy to envision that process taking decades.