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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Germany's Coal Problem: A Growing Question Mark At the UN Climate Summit
Many agree that Germany's continued mining of lignite coal – the dirtiest type there is – undermines its green image. This past week, the Greens in Germany abruptly dropped their commitment to stopping coal and reducing car emissions.
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COP23 Opens With New Global Leadership Emerging Against Climate Change
Fiji and other vulnerable island nations have set out the necessary steps to keep global the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees celsius. This includes going further and faster than the historic agreements made in Paris in 2015.
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Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial
A recent report reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year.
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What to Do When You See Science Denial at the Science Museum
I went to DC’s Smithsonian Museum of Natural History expecting to learn about the history of our planet. Instead, I stumbled upon a Koch-funded climate denial disaster.
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Utilities Knew: Power Providers Deceived the Public on Climate Change for 50 Years
For half a century, electric utilities have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science, respond to climate change with disinformation, and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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Florida Just Passed Its Second Anti-Science Law This Month
Florida passed a law undermining accepted scientific theories about climate change, evolution and vaccination.
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Trump’s Stupid and Reckless Climate Decision
After nearly 200 years of scientific inquiry and over 20 years of patient diplomacy that united every nation save Syria and Nicaragua, we had this afternoon’s big game-show Rose Garden reveal: Count us out.
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Donald Trump Confirms U.S. Will Quit Paris Climate Agreement
The world’s second largest greenhouse gas emitter will remove itself from the historic global treaty as Trump claims accord "will harm" American jobs.
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Populism of the 1%: Why The Same Billionaires are Behind Trump and Brexit
Those who have profited hand over fist from decades of neoliberalism are now the ones sponsoring the populist, anti-immigration and climate denial regimes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Resistance Roadshow – #Earth2Trump Campaign Kicks Off Jan 2, 2017
The 16-city tour to "rally and empower defenders of civil rights and the environment" launches in Oakland and Seattle, and ends Jan. 20 on inauguration day in Washington, DC.
