This is a manmade climate-related disaster. To ignore this ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe. Not talking about climate change, and Trump's active attacks on climate science is missing a huge, crucial moment to address an enormous problem.
Building on her past work analyzing capitalism, Naomi Klein, in the book under review, does not stop with an analysis of the crises. She not only argues how to defeat the new shock politics of Trump (explicit in the subtitle), but outlines a resistance politics that not only rejects what she terms a domination/subordination dynamic but proceeds from saying "no" to the existing order to a "yes" to other values. Favoring the book, the reviewer wishes she had dug deeper.
After Trump's election, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power feels like an elegy for a bygone era.
Larsen C, a floating platform of glacial ice on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is the fourth largest ice shelf ringing Earth’s southernmost continent. In 2014, a crack that had been slowly growing into the ice shelf for decades suddenly started to spread northwards, creating the nascent iceberg. Now that the close to 2,240 square-mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.
One of the world’s best-performing economies, Sweden, has already adopted a carbon tax. And the Swedes have simultaneously sustained their strong growth without US-level emissions.
Victor Grossman reports from Germany, giving a European left perspective on the recently concluded G20 Summit in Hamburg. Was anything accomplished in polished conference rooms and luxurious hotel suites carefully protected from the wild, fiery street scenes? Was it worth hundreds of injured police officers and arrests and millions in damage? His answer: maybe.
Improved understanding of long-term effects of greenhouse emissions on climate sensitivity helps resolve apparent discrepancies between historical data and predictions.
Current extinction rates are 50 times higher than expected background rates, suggesting that another mass extinction event is underway
The science and the politics of climate change, explained to a beat.
French President Macron slams President Trump for withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord. It's not renegotiable.
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