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We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse
2023-08-22 in The NationWill our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse
The Media's Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy
2023-04-03 in The NationBeneath the upbeat messaging, the latest UN climate report makes it clear that while the means to save the planet may still be available, the political will is nowhere in sight.
Tagged under: IPCC | Fossil Fuels
Facing Up to the Climate Reckoning Ahead
2023-03-24 in The NationThe IPCC’s forecast of fast-approaching climate catastrophe requires us to think, and organize, in urgent new ways.
Tagged under: IPCC
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
2022-10-18 in The NationA national fleet of battery-powered cars is unlikely to prove sustainable and could have catastrophic consequences globally.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Joe Biden | Cobalt | Electric Cars | Cars
Here in Poland, “Going Green” Means Burning Even More Coal
2022-05-27 in The NationWith parents and children struggling to breathe, climate activism is a matter of life and death.
Tagged under: Coal | Fossil Fuels | Russia | Women and Children | Activism | Children
America’s Decline Started at Home
2021-11-22 in The NationWhen will shifting geopolitics and climate change fully cripple Washington’s current world order?
Tagged under: Climate Change
Facing Prison, Steven Donziger Refuses to Be Silenced
2021-10-25 in The NationThe environmentalist lawyer says Chevron has “to try and destroy what I represent.”
Tagged under: Chevron
Should Governments Consider Engineering the Atmosphere?
2021-04-08 in The NationTwo writers debate whether solar geoengineering would help or harm the effort to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Geoengineering
You Can Refuse to Work for Fossil Fuel Companies—These Law Students Show How
2020-12-22 in The Nation“We should all disagree with a business model that condemns future generations to disaster and displacement.”
A New Justice Movement Emerges to Defend Steven Donziger
2020-09-10 in The NationThe lawyer who helped win a historic Amazon cleanup deal faces six months in prison, but will still not have a jury trial.
Tagged under: Activism | Amazon Rainforest
Jonathan Safran Foer and the Limits of Liberal Climate Politics
2019-10-29 in The NationAddressing climate change will take a whole lot more than changing our diets.
Tagged under: Climate Change
‘The Silenced’: Meet the Climate Whistle-Blowers Muzzled by Trump
2019-09-17 in The NationSix former government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury the truth about climate change—and why they won’t stay quiet.
Climate Disaster Is Upon Us
2019-01-15 in The NationThe question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure?
Capitalism vs. the Climate
2011-11-09 in The NationDenialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
Tagged under: Drought | Capitalism
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