The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Extinction Rebellion Must Evolve to Tackle Our Systemic Climate Crisis
To really tell the truth about climate change, the rebels in Extinction Rebellion need to call out climate criminals. Anything else is a whitewash.
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Human Society Under Urgent Threat from Loss of Earth's Natural Life
Scientists reveal 1 million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report.
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Greta Thunberg at London Climate Protest: "We Will Never Stop Fighting"
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since anti-climate change protests started in the British capital one week ago by the global body Extinction Rebellion.
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A Growing Citizens' Coalition Brings Environmental Justice Fight To Urban Michigan
Citing rising health concerns and the historic pollution of their community, people are confronting US Ecology's bid to vastly expand fracking wastewater storage facilities in their area.
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Researchers Warn Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability
"Never have so many Arctic indicators been brought together in a single paper." And the findings spell trouble for the entire planet.
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“Red Alert”: Time To Sue the Banks Underwriting Climate Disaster
Knowing who is underwriting climate change is one thing. Making them stop and repay the climate debt is another. With the 2019 report "Banking on Climate Change," we get one step closer.
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Another Whale Has Washed Up Dead With Plastic Packing Its Stomach
“We’ve used the ‘comfort’ of disposable objects in a lighthearted way in the past years and now we are paying the consequences. Indeed the animals, above all, are the ones paying them.”
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Ocasio-Cortez: Maybe Wall Street Bankers 'Not the Best Authority' on Wellbeing of People and Planet
JP Morgan invested $195.66 billion in oil and gas companies between 2016 and 2018, making the Wall Street bank "the world's top funder of fossil fuels by a wide margin."
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Petro-State Norway Signals Oil Game Is Up
Europe's largest oil producer is effectively admitting the oil game is over and promises to divest from the industry – but it wants to play to the final whistle. Can it have it both ways?
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The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
Amid transatlantic proposals for a Green New Deal, monetary policy – normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors – has suddenly taken center stage.
