Kari Hammerschlag, Christopher D. Cook: Banks Worldwide Must End Funding of Factory Farms to Halt Climate Damage
As the climate crisis boils over, new research shows that reducing methane emissions is our best hope to rapidly stem the crisis.
Derrick Z. Jackson: ‘Code Red’ for Climate Means Reducing US Oil and Gas Production Now
For all the obvious climate impacts, the United States does not yet seem disturbed enough to demonstrably disrupt our burning of fossil fuels.
Jon Queally: ‘To Change Course of History,’ US Climate Movement Takes Aim at Biden White House
Five days of direct action and civil disobedience are planned this week to denounce “broken promises” and demand ambitious action against the planetary threat.
Erin Eberle, Anna Lappe: Eating in the Age of Climate Crisis
A recent analysis on land use estimated that livestock production uses 83 percent of the world’s farmland, yet provides only 18 percent of the world’s total calories.
Julia Conley: Environmental Threats Rapidly Becoming ‘Single Greatest Challenge to Human Rights’ according to UN
“Governments’ failure to act on climate change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence may well be the biggest intergenerational human rights violation in history.” —Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International
Ramzy Baroud: Why the World Is Burning
Global warming is, in large part, the outcome of a destructive pattern instigated and sustained by capitalism. The latter can only survive through unhindered consumption, inequality, greed and, when necessary, war.
Tom Engelhardt: Our Not-So-Slow-Motion Apocalypse
A heating planet is a danger, not in some distant time, but right now — yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
C.J. Polychroniou: Climate Crisis Must Be Treated Like Outbreak of a World War
If we convince ourselves that combatting the climate crisis is equivalent to fighting a world war, we do have a realistic chance of rescuing planet Earth.
Andrew Bacevich: Answering the Armies of the Cheated
But No Questions about War Please!
Tim Radford: Irreversible Cascade of Global Climate Emergencies May be Near
Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions is indispensable to limit the risks of crossing tipping points in the climate system.
Lachmann, Schwartz and Young: Is a Green New Deal Planet Possible?
We may be at a tipping point for the defeat of fossil fuels.
Derrick Z. Jackson: 2020 unmasked the truth about ‘all lives matter’
This is the year when we really learned that not even white lives matter to most white people.
Basav Sev: Paying Politicians to Criminalize Protest
More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony.
