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EartherWhat the Iraq War Can Teach the Climate Movement
I was in middle school when the George W. Bush administration began stoking the flames of war with Iraq in 2003. I watched as TV newscasters and government officials shouted about the need to restore order in the country, alleging that the Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction and claiming violent intervention was the … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeWe Could Breach the 1.5 Degrees Celsius Threshold in the Next 5 Years
Remember that earth-shattering climate report from a couple years ago that said we have to massively cut emissions by 2030 to ensure we don’t exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold of global warming above pre-industrial temperatures? Well, there’s a chance we’ll cross that benchmark a lot sooner than we thought. The new outlook … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeMajor UN Report Shows Why the Coronavirus Recovery Has to be Green
On Wednesday, a new report United Nations report urged governments to pour money into renewable energy to pull us out of economic depression driven by the coronavirus and jumpstart the transition away from fossil fuels. The analysis was undertaken by the United Nations Environment Program, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Center, and BloombergNEF, which looked at … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeCracks Are Starting to Show in the World’s Fossil Fueled Infrastructure
On Wednesday, a British appeals court issued a ruling that Heathrow Airport’s long-planned third runway expansion in London is illegal due to its climate impacts that planners failed to adequately account for. The move is the latest in a decade-plus of wrangling over the expansion that would be a climate disaster. The ruling—which could be … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeClimate Deniers Are Out of Ideas
Folks, the Washington Post had itself a Sunday night. The paper inexplicably published a puff piece on the “anti-Greta,” a German teen peddling soft climate denial who’s being supported by a group of old white guys at the Heartland Institute. It took two reporters to do one of the most egregious pieces of both sides … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeWorld’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Funder Notes Climate Change Could End ‘Human Life as We Know it’
The finance industry is issuing some of the direst warnings about climate change while funding the industry most responsible for it. Today’s example: JP Morgan. The bank is the single biggest funder of fossil fuels in the world. But its economists wrote an internal report leaked to Extinction Rebellion on Friday stating that they “cannot … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeHow Climate Change Could Bring About the Next Great Recession
Our weather is becoming more extreme, litigation is targeting fossil fuel companies—and our whole economic system is at risk of imploding if the energy sector doesn’t prepare for climate change, financial experts warn. In a series of commentaries published in Nature Energy on Monday, experts shared their concern for what extreme heat, stronger hurricanes, and … Continued
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EartherEnvironmental JusticeWomen Face ‘Pervasive’ Violence in the Face of the Environmental Crisis, Report Finds
Environmental destruction like deforestation, mining, and climate change aren’t just bad for ecosystems. They pose serious risks to women around the world, and a new report shows just how pervasive and even deadly those risks are. I’m talking about some of the most egregious forms of violence there are: sexual assault, human trafficking, and death. … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeDoomsday Is Now Just 100 Seconds Away
We are 100 seconds to midnight, which means doomsday has never been closer. Deadass. On Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock 20 seconds closer to midnight aka the end of civilization. The last move forward was 2018 when the world reached two minutes to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeHBO Max Is Turning The Uninhabitable Earth Into a Fictional Series
The climate apocalypse is coming to your television. HBO announced Wednesday that the David Wallace-Wells’ book The Uninhabitable Earth will influence a fictional anthology series that examines what our future may look like as climate change progresses. The book gave the world a glimpse of the fear-inducing world full of droughts, floods, and fires that … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeEarth: Still Hot
The clearest indicator of the climate crisis is heat, and Earth is frickin’ hot. In fact, we just wrapped up the hottest decade in recorded human history. The 2010s saw eight of the planet’s 10 hottest years on record. And last year was a particularly hot one. On Wednesday, scientists with NASA and the National … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeTeen Climate Strikers Have Capitalists Shook
For the first time ever, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has declared environmental issues as the world’s top long-term risks. The international organization isn’t just recognizing the deadly, terrifying climate crisis as a huge global threat, though. The report also recognizes the power the youth hold, and how the new wave of climate activism poses … Continued
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EartherEnvironmental JusticeBushfires Are ‘Obliterating the Cultural Memory’ of Australia’s Aboriginal People
The deadly, ongoing bushfires in Australia have been burning for months. Around Christmas, however, the glittering orange flames grew closer to the community of East Gippsland in eastern Victoria, home to more than 46,000 people. Alice Pepper, an indigenous community organizer with the Gunaikurnai people, among them. Her people are the traditional owners of this … Continued
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EartherAustralian Open Tennis Players Struggle to Breathe as Climate Crisis Makes Air Hazardous
Tennis players at practice sessions for the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia today struggled to breathe as smoke from nearby bushfires choked their lungs. Slovenian Dalila Jakupović even collapsed on the court in a coughing fit while simply trying to inhale the smoke-filled air, which had an Air Quality Index (AQI) rating above 200 today. … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeIt’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons
Australia’s bushfires are a bright red warning sign that the climate crisis is most definitely upon us and worse lies ahead if we don’t curb carbon pollution. That also makes them a bright red warning sign for a disinformation campaign about their causes for anyone looking to maintain the status quo. After months of hell, … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeThere Is No Safe Global Warming
Safety is something we all crave. It’s human nature. And so perhaps it’s not surprising that we’ve spent the past decade or so outlining what a “safe” level of global warming is. Language reflecting the conception of “safe” global heating abounds in scientific literature, climate negotiations, and the press. The Paris Agreement enshrined the idea … Continued
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