At a meeting last year, industry leaders contradicted public claims that emissions of climate-warming methane are under control.
Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of endless nuclear war. A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred.
The heat from one fire in California has been so strong that it generated its own thunderstorm cloud. There were at least 24 large wildfires in California, 14 in Oregon, and another 12 in Washington. Yes some still deny climate change.
This week, we explore the tug of war between protecting union jobs and the transition to a cleaner economy.
There are four key ingredients to the disastrous wildfire seasons in the West, and climate change figures prominently.
With 80,000 members today, UMWA is more of a retirees’ organization than a fighting union — at roughly 1.6 million members, the AFT is one of the largest unions in the country. The former opposes the Green New Deal, the latter supports.
We can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight. Society must start treating this as a crisis. Vital time being lost to climate inertia, say activists.
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