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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/27/2023
  

  We Can't Leave Climate out of History

  by Peter Frankopan

  Emerging "climate archives" of precise data about weather patterns can illuminate ways that the environment impacted human history. 

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• 12/18/2022
  

  Will the United States Accept Responsibility to Lead with a New Marshall Plan for Climate?

  by James Thornton Harris

  Although the United States has refused to accept the principle that it owes global reparations for past damage to the atmosphere, could reframing the issue as one of global leadership, instead of punishment, appeal to the nation's better instincts? 

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• SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
  8/14/2022
  

  The Inflation Reduction Act is a Legislative Victory and a Vindication of Patient Pragmatism

  by Walter G. Moss

  While compromise and negotiation are difficult, they have proven necessary for salvaging a large chunk of the Biden domestic agenda, including action on climate change. 

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• SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
  7/23/2022
  

  Can Fiction Like "The Ministry For the Future" Guide Real Action on Climate?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Kim Stanley Robinson's 2020 novel has impressed readers from Bill McKibben to Barack Obama – does it model a better approach to the global climate crisis? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/24/2022
  

  America *IS* Exceptional. It's Not a Good Thing

  by Aviva Chomsky

  The climate emergency requires Americans to reject the nation's exceptional consumption of resources and hoarding of wealth in favor of a political economy that enables a global good life for all within the limits of the planet. 

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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: NPR
  4/7/2021
  

  Your Weather Forecast Update: Warmer Climate Will Be The New 'Normal'

  The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its ten-year updates to its "normal" temperature standards. Based on 30 years of data, higher temperatures are indeed "the new normal."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/18/2021
  

  The Sports Pages of Death

  by Tom Engelhardt

  The developing effort to control and contain the COVID pandemic raise the question of why governments and industry are not doing more to avoid the worst case scenarios of climate change. 

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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: New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  Overlooked No More: Eunice Foote, Climate Scientist Lost to History

  Eunice Foote’s ingenious experiment more than 150 years ago yielded a remarkable discovery that could have helped shape modern climate science had she not been overshadowed.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Our Stories Will Carry Us to the Future. Can They Save Us Now?

  by David Farrier

  To avert a climate disaster, science is essential, but we also need stories. We know ourselves first and foremost in the tales we tell.

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• 11/25/2019
  

  Trump's Official Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Mirrors George W. Bush's Exit from Kyoto Protocol

  by Mark Detlor

  The United States has a long history of being hesitent to match other western nation's commitment to the climate.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  12-23-14
  

  Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart

  by Rebecca Solnit

  The Climate for 2015