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Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

What if we had systems that loved us and, by extension, the planet?”

October 5, 2024 · 5 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: Ripe for Disaster Declarations | Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

It is clear that the opposition is willing to risk sacrificing lower-wage construction and farm workers to the sun’s brutality as executives count the cash in air conditioned offices.

July 27, 2024 · 10 Comments

Julia Conley: Extreme Heat Expected to Impact Millions of Americans Again This Summer

“These are not your grandparents’ heatwaves,” said one meteorologist. 

June 3, 2024 · 4 Comments

JESSICA GARCIA: ‘BLUELINING’ LEAVES CLIMATE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES WITHOUT HOME INSURANCE

Insurers are pulling out of areas prone to climate risk — even as they insure the fossil fuel companies contributing to that risk.

May 23, 2024 · 6 Comments

Stan Cox: As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments Avert Their Eyes

The Earth’s not just steadily warming; it’s heating up at an ever-faster pace.

February 6, 2024 · 1 Comment

Tom Engelhardt: When Will Climate Change Become the Crucial Issue in American Elections?

We’re now on a tipping-point planet.

November 28, 2022 · 1 Comment

Yona Harvey: Hurricane

Four tickets left, I let her go— Firstborn into a hurricane. I thought she escaped The floodwaters. No—but her Head is empty of the drowned For now—though she took Her … Continue reading

May 10, 2017 · Leave a comment

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