The global climate strike on Sept. 20. will almost certainly be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history, writes Bill McKibben. “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”
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Workers, people of color, Native peoples, and the poor have borne and will continue to bear the brunt of this crisis if we don’t find the means to avert it. We must forge alliances that can fight for climate justice, a sustainable, resilient future.
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Bolsonaro didn’t pour lighter fluid to ignite the flames now raging, but with his policies and rhetoric, he might as well have. Firms owned by a top donor to Trump and McConnell are significantly responsible for the destruction of the rainforest.
Reader Comments: Sanders Political Revolution; Global Authoritarianism; White Supremacy and Terrorism; Immigrant Workers; Jews Disloyal ?!?; David Koch; Puerto Rico; Kashmir; Neoliberalism; Socialist Labor Activism; Climate Strike; Fall Calendar;
The Sunrise Movement rose to prominence in November, after newly elected Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended a Sunrise protest in then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office. This has all been in the pursuit of the Green New Deal...
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Because the number of extreme events and their destructive power keeps increasing at an accelerating rate. If we can expect to take a $1 trillion hit over just the next decade, the costs by the end of the century are hardly fathomable.
We are clearly in a new normal in terms of extreme precipitation and that raises questions about the new normal of flood risks.
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