Only a decisive defeat of Putinism — with its toxic mix of despotism, corruption, right-wing nationalism, and devil-may-care extractivism — would offer the world some sliver of hope when it comes to restoring some measure of planetary balance.
Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.
Our new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation with the most political and economic influence to fight for a working climate and a working democracy.
We can’t live without energy and we desperately do need to turn to alternatives to fossil fuels. But alternative energies are only going to be truly viable if we can also greatly reduce our energy needs, which means reconfiguring the global economy.
In a memo shared with Teen Vogue, the youth-led climate group warns Democrats to pay more attention to young voters. The memo strikes a clear tone: Stop taking us, and our voters, for granted.
"Peace will only come through accelerating the transition to renewable energy, not by trading Russian oligarchs for American oil and gas barons," said a Greenpeace campaigner.
Are we heading for Cold War II, World War III, or possibly even World War IV (the climate destruction of this planet)? The author explores what it's meant for humanity to have taken from the gods the ability to create Armageddon.
The horrendous fire near Boulder, Colorado, is reminiscent of last year's disastrous Dixie Fire in California. Locations are different, but this is what the result of our climate crisis brings - up close and personal.
For a vast majority of Americans democracy ends when work hours begin. Most people in this country are subject, as workers, to the nearly unmediated authority of their employers, which can discipline, sanction or fire them for nearly any reason
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