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Teresa Coady: Rethinking Climate Action | A New Guideline for Planetary Health

A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.

June 17, 2025 · 2 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: EPA Can Save Lives with Tighter Protections on Fine Particulate Pollution

Globally, fine particulate pollution kills at least 4.2 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and perhaps as many as 5.7 million a year…

March 13, 2023 · Leave a comment

Derrick Z. Jackson: The Chamber of Commerce says it’s woke

Given how many African Americans die because of polluted air, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is no ally. It is just another cop standing to the side as Black folks are being asphyxiated to death.

August 3, 2020 · 1 Comment

George Monbiot: Smoke and Mirrors

Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption. In London, the latest figures suggest that it now kills more people than smoking. … Continue reading

September 24, 2015 · Leave a comment

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