Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Source: Yale Environment 360
This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These were not freak occurrences -- this is how the earth works now.
Romney not only flip-flopped to the side of climate denial, but did so less than six months after he had said no less definitively that the world's getting warmer.
Now that there is no real chance of political action in the next year or two, a real opportunity exists to build a powerful, angry movement, in the USA and around the world.
Praying for rain will be little help while Texas politicians work to deny global warming and prevent the changes that might actually deal with their troubles.
"We will never have as much money as the oil companies, so we need a different currency to work in. We need bodies, we need creativity, we need spirit."
We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible.
Though the Chamber claims to represent all of American business, their constituency is really that handful of huge dinosaur companies that would rather lobby than adapt.
After Glenn Beck calls McKibben's organization 350.org part of the "communistic" conspiracy, the writer and environmental activist does some soul searching.
Money pollution is the single biggest reason that, as the planet swelters through the warmest years in history, we have yet to take any real action as a nation on global warming.
For two decades now we've been ignoring the impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we're paying a heavy price.
If we are to somehow ward off the coming catastrophes, we have to figure out how to cooperatively own and protect the single most important feature of our planet.
The White House seems to have decided that solar panels on the roof would be ammo for Fox News: an association with Jimmy Carter that's the electoral equivalent of cooties.
We're going to have to build a movement much bigger than anything we've built before. That movement is our only real hope, and we need your help to plot its future.
Access to cheap energy made us rich, wrecked our climate, and made us the first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors -- that has to change.
Tim DeChristopher is facing 10 years in jail for a profound gesture made on behalf of all of us and our future. It's time to show our solidarity with him.
Posted on: Dec 4, 2009, Source: Yale Environment 360
The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.
If you poll Americans this time of year, far more regard the approaching holidays with dread than anticipation. How can we make Christmas worthwhile again?
Posted on: Oct 23, 2009, Source: Yes! Magazine and TruthDig
Bill McKibben believes we must reduce our carbon emissions immediately, or else face disaster. Chris Hedges says that until we defeat corporate power, we can't address anything.
