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The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Bill McKibben
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Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change
Circle September 20 and 21 on your calendar, book a ticket to New York, and then I'll explain.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Challenging the Rogue Polluters: Why Divestment Is An Answer
Earlier this month, the trustees of the city graveyard in Santa Monica, California (final resting place of actor Glenn Ford and tennis star May Sutton) anno
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The Fossil Fuel Resistance: A New Movement is Emerging
As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging — fiercely, loudly and right next door.
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Is Keystone XL Pipeline the "Stonewall" of the Climate Movement?
The narrow window of opportunity that physics provides us makes me doubt that a third party will offer a fast enough answer to come to terms with our changing planet.
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Go Fossil Free: The Campaign
We’re launching the next phase of our fossil fuel divestment campaign aimed at government, religious denominations, museums, foundations -- anyone investing in the destruction of the future, we’re asking them to sell those shares.
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Idle No More: Think Occupy, But With Deep Roots
From hunger strikes to road and rail blockades, Idle No More is a surging movement of indigenous activists that may be as important as the Occupy Movement that transfixed the world a year ago.
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Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
It’s not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics.
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A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the carbon pouring into the atmosphere.
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Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
Activists are continuing the fight but are exhausted, balancing careers and a movement, that, to most, has become a personal battle.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Posted 6 days 13 hours ago
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
