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Extinction Rebellion’s ambition is no less than to save the Earth. To win, they say they need 3.5 percent of the U.S. population to participate.

Statement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency. Most countries’ climate plans ‘totally inadequate’ – experts

Of the two New Deals -- the one from the 1930s and today’s Green one -- only the first was treated in its time as a response to the economic equivalent of a category five hurricane.

While the global climate crisis demands we rise above narrow self-interest and short-termism, governments now represent the meanest and dirtiest of special interests. In the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia and many other nations, the pollutocrats rule.

It is time for a new Apollo project to transition the United States to a climate-friendly economy.

"Instead of remaining complicit in worsening the effects of climate change, members of Congress in both the House and Senate must respond to this resolution with the urgency and support that this moment demands."

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilization is at stake

Wind, solar and other companies in the green sector would benefit in a big way from a Green New Deal. A full-blown climate crisis is barreling at us like a wrecking ball off its chain. The question of whether we achieve a Green New Deal....

We are in the midst of record-setting climate extremes, why wasn’t news coverage of the 2018 UN climate conference front-page news? Why didn’t news coverage, where it existed, convey the crisis of time – 11 years according to UN studies.