Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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“Monsoon Monster”: Climate Change-Induced Floods Wreak Havoc In Pakistan
The nation of 225 million stands at the frontline of extreme weather events as unrelenting heat waves, fires, melting glaciers, lake outbursts, flash floods and now torrential rains cause extensive devastation to the country’s infrastructure.
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Green New Deal XVII: Climate Litigation Is One Track To a Just Green Future
Worldwide climate litigation is a surging movement taking high polluting corporations, complicit nation-states or other climate criminals to court—and increasingly winning.
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How Students Struggling to Get Educated in Kashmir Came Up With Collective Solutions During the Pandemic
Mir Quasim, an undergraduate journalism student in Kashmir, India, has only attended a few months of classes – yet he is nearly done with his degree.
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Green New Deal XIV: Climate Catastrophe Demands We Tear Down Deadly Borders
Despite much talk about a global response to the climate emergency, there are still no international agreements recognising climate refugees’ status – a crisis that looms large on the horizon.
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‘Tinkering Round the Edges’ Won’t Cut it: COP26, Capitalism and the Climate Crisis
“Our broken financial system created this crisis and if we do not rebuild it from the ground up, we will not only have no quality of life, we’ll have no life on earth at all.”
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In ‘The Dawn of Everything,’ Graeber and Wengrow Place Imagination at the Center of Humanity's Journey
Many books can be defined as must-reads. The Dawn of Everything goes beyond that and will reshape how we identify with prehistory and thus with our humanity.
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Green New Deal XIII: From Kansas City to Estonia, Free Public Transport Is the Future
To reverse the ongoing climate catastrophe we must rethink transit, making it clean – and free to use – for everyone.
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Green New Deal XII: A Green Transformation Must Decolonise Turtle Island & Beyond
California's first nations applied wild land horticulturalism to increase food and other production through pruning, seed dispersal, coppicing and burning. Meanwhile, the invading Europeans wrongly thought the lands pristine, unaffected by humans.
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Green New Deal XI: Costa Rica Demonstrates One Pathway Toward a Rewilded World
This is the eleventh installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises.
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Green New Deal X: Denmark Shows How a Country Can Power Beyond Fossil Fuels
The Nordic country has been able to go so far so quickly because it started its renewable energy push a half century ago – and the good news is that others can now replicate its social and ecological innovations to keep fossil fuels grounded and out of the atmosphere.
