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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10 Things You Need To Know About the U.S.-China Climate Deal
350.org founder Bill McKibben breaks down this week's announcement from President Obama and Premier Xi – which he calls a sign that public pressure is working, and that we need to apply much more.
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Climate Denial Is Now Shaping the G20 Summit In Australia, Where Coal Is King
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, an avowed skeptic of human-caused climate change, has resisted calls for global warming to be discussed when world leaders gather this week.
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It's the Inequality, Stupid: Achieving Doughnut Economics to Solve Climate Change
There is a safe and just, sweet spot between social and planetary boundaries – and we need to find our way into this doughnut, quickly, by tackling today's vast resource inequalities.
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Energy Commission in D.C. Blockaded, 47 Arrested In Multi-State Climate Protests
On Monday, 25 people were arrested at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as seven were taken from a Maryland gas export construction site and 15 at a gas storage facility in New York.
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United Nations: World Faces Do-Or-Die Carbon Threat
New report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says world has until 2100 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero or face "irreversible" consequences.
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This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein Takes On Capitalism Vs. the Climate
Klein's starting point is valuable for the pro-planet movement, showing the walls that are built by the system – and ourselves – to stop climate action.
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Australia Turns A Corner As University's Climate Divestment Ignites Furor
Divestment is less about denying fossil fuel companies the financial resources to operate – it's more about denying them reputation, legitimacy and “social license.”
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Brazil Protects Delaware-Sized Swath of Amazon Rainforest
After a year in which destruction of the world's largest rainforest rose 29%, the new Alto Maues reserve has 1.6 million acres of mostly untouched forests that are not known to have human presence.
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Fossil Fuel Lobby Spent $213 Million Last Year to Influence U.S. and E.U. Politicians
The new 40-page report published by Oxfam International also said the global fossil fuel sector now receives $1.9 trillion in subsidies each year.
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Now Is the Moment To Win the Battle Over the Tar Sands
"Peoples' movements will either succeed in transforming our economic and political systems to build a new world, or we will burn with the old one."
