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The Climate Won’t Let Us Forget Why People Aren’t Motivated to Address Climate Change ‘There Is a Real Opportunity Here That I Think Biden Is Capturing’ Climate change is the most overpowering issue of our times—and the least discussed. I searched several leading publications and found it displaced (as you might suspect) by these subjects: …
There Is Only One Existential Threat. Let’s Talk About It. Tropical Storm Iota Deals Devastation to Central America Still Recovering from Eta What Keith Richards Can Teach Us about Beating Our Donald Trump Addiction The election naturally commanded our public thoughts; now it’s done. Trump perpetually has commanded our attention; finally the fixation may be …
Why the coronavirus outbreak is terrible news for climate change ‘This is a yes-we-can moment’: What the coronavirus response means for climate action Climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ The relationship is complicated, very complicated. I’m struck with a few of the many comparisons. One is that corona and climate both demand present sacrifice to …
Coronavirus ‘Really Not the Way You Want to Decrease Emissions’ For Richer or Poorer: Coronavirus, Cheap Oil Test Climate Vows How the Wuhan Virus Is Accomplishing the Green New Deal’s Goals We’re seeing a slew of articles on how coronavirus is affecting climate change efforts. After reading several, my take is that the outlook isn’t …
Why climate voters made Biden the front-runner How Biden’s climate plan stacks up to Bernie’s The four biggest differences between the Biden and Sanders climate plans If you follow the politics of climate change, you know that Bernie Sanders has the support of the hard-core environmentalists. Despite the practical challenges to his plans and the …
In bleak report, U.N. says drastic action is only way to avoid worst effects of climate change Nine climate tipping points now ‘active,’ warn scientists The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific Nobody needs to tell you that you’re going to die. But what if they could tell you not precisely …
Americans demand climate action (as long as it doesn’t cost much): Reuters poll It takes about three weeks for Americans to stop paying attention after a mass shooting Amazon rainforest fires: global leaders urged to divert Brazil from ‘suicide’ path You have to wonder why something as dramatically urgent as climate change doesn’t seem sustainable …
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The World’s Climate Emergency Is Getting Harder to Ignore Climate change requires big solutions. But baby steps are the only way to go. Implementing The One Viable Solution To Climate Change The accepted way to solve a big problem has always been to break it down into smaller components and work on them. Most solutions …
The Trump Administration Takes Climate Denial to New Heights Would Trump’s Re-election Doom the Planet? Trump’s Failure to Fight Climate Change Is a Crime Against Humanity Climate change didn’t come up in the Mueller hearings, but maybe it should have. Of all the high crimes and misdemeanors Trump has committed, his continued sabotage of efforts …
Don’t Overthink a Climate-Change Debate Climate change got just 15 minutes out of 4 hours of Democratic debates The Debates Showed America Still Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Climate Change Tom Perez, the DNC Chair, says he won’t allow one because if he gave in to Jay Inslee’s request he’d then have to permit …