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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
To stop global catastrophe, we must believe in humans again The reason we don't have a solution to climate change has less to do with the greed of the great, unengineered unwashed than with the greed of the almost unbelievably small percentage of people at the top of the energy heap. Let's operate on the assumption that human beings are not grossly defective. That we're capable of acting together to do remarkable things.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019To stop global catastrophe, we must believe in humans again The reason we don't have a solution to climate change has less to do with the greed of the great, unengineered unwashed than with the greed of the almost unbelievably small percentage of people at the top of the energy heap. Let's operate on the assumption that human beings are not grossly defective. That we're capable of acting together to do remarkable things.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Glaciers and Arctic ice are vanishing. Time to get radical before it's too late The biggest physical features on the planet are now changing in ways they haven't since long before the dawn of human history. On the most distant poles, and on the highest peaks, we see almost unfathomable shifts. The only question is whether a similar shift is possible in our politics. Planet Earth is miles outside its comfort zone; how many of us will go beyond ours?
Wednesday, April 10, 2019Glaciers and Arctic ice are vanishing. Time to get radical before it's too late The biggest physical features on the planet are now changing in ways they haven't since long before the dawn of human history. On the most distant poles, and on the highest peaks, we see almost unfathomable shifts. The only question is whether a similar shift is possible in our politics. Planet Earth is miles outside its comfort zone; how many of us will go beyond ours?
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Sunday, March 17, 2019
How to Tell If Beto O'Rourke Is for Real: A Green New Deal and Natural Gas Texas has the second-largest economy in the country; oil and gas are still the state's largest industries. For employees of those companies, who, in 2018, contributed more money to O'Rourke's campaign than to that of any other member of Congress except Cruz (it's Texas, after all), natural-gas production is a way to extend their livelihoods for a few more decades.
Sunday, March 17, 2019How to Tell If Beto O'Rourke Is for Real: A Green New Deal and Natural Gas Texas has the second-largest economy in the country; oil and gas are still the state's largest industries. For employees of those companies, who, in 2018, contributed more money to O'Rourke's campaign than to that of any other member of Congress except Cruz (it's Texas, after all), natural-gas production is a way to extend their livelihoods for a few more decades.
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Friday, March 15, 2019
A Future Without Fossil Fuels? Imagine a world in which the greatest driver of climate change -- the unrelenting political power of the fossil-fuel industry -- had begun to shrink. The question, of course, is whether we can reach that new world in time.
Friday, March 15, 2019A Future Without Fossil Fuels? Imagine a world in which the greatest driver of climate change -- the unrelenting political power of the fossil-fuel industry -- had begun to shrink. The question, of course, is whether we can reach that new world in time.
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Sunday, February 24, 2019
The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein's encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists Feinstein has amassed a career's worth of legislative savvy, and she can put it to good use here; Ocasio-Cortez could doubtless use the help. But, having blown our chance at leading, it's time for those of us of a certain age to follow, with all the grace that we can still muster.
Sunday, February 24, 2019The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein's encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists Feinstein has amassed a career's worth of legislative savvy, and she can put it to good use here; Ocasio-Cortez could doubtless use the help. But, having blown our chance at leading, it's time for those of us of a certain age to follow, with all the grace that we can still muster.
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Sunday, February 17, 2019
Bill McKibben: Climate Change Is Scary -- Not the Green New Deal It's very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people. And it's very clear that they have one big problem: The hell they're building through inaction is a lot scarier than "upgrading all existing buildings."
Sunday, February 17, 2019Bill McKibben: Climate Change Is Scary -- Not the Green New Deal It's very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people. And it's very clear that they have one big problem: The hell they're building through inaction is a lot scarier than "upgrading all existing buildings."
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Monday, January 14, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez's Climate Genius Stroke: Her #GreenNewDeal Is the Most Serious Response to the Crisis Yet The young people of the Sunrise Movement, who have done the most to push the Green New Deal, and who enlisted Ocasio-Cortez in their gutsy Capitol Hill protests, are far closer to meeting the scientific requirements of the moment than the various luminaries who propose what they consider "politically realistic" grab bags of carbon taxes and regulatory overhauls.
Monday, January 14, 2019Ocasio-Cortez's Climate Genius Stroke: Her #GreenNewDeal Is the Most Serious Response to the Crisis Yet The young people of the Sunrise Movement, who have done the most to push the Green New Deal, and who enlisted Ocasio-Cortez in their gutsy Capitol Hill protests, are far closer to meeting the scientific requirements of the moment than the various luminaries who propose what they consider "politically realistic" grab bags of carbon taxes and regulatory overhauls.
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Monday, December 17, 2018
At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts Divestment by itself is not going to win the climate fight. But by weakening -- reputationally and financially -- those players that are determined to stick to business as usual, it's one crucial part of a broader strategy. The Carbon Tracker initiative in London published the first report laying out the fact that the fossil fuel industry has five times more carbon in its reserves than any climate scientist thinks is safe.
Monday, December 17, 2018At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts Divestment by itself is not going to win the climate fight. But by weakening -- reputationally and financially -- those players that are determined to stick to business as usual, it's one crucial part of a broader strategy. The Carbon Tracker initiative in London published the first report laying out the fact that the fossil fuel industry has five times more carbon in its reserves than any climate scientist thinks is safe.
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Saturday, December 8, 2018
How The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet Fifty years is barely a blip in the vastness of astronomical time, but Earth now looks quite different when seen from space. In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer sea ice that once covered the Arctic is now half gone. Some of the islands of the Pacific have begun to disappear below rising seas. The great forests that covered South America and Africa are shrunken and ragged.
Saturday, December 8, 2018How The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet Fifty years is barely a blip in the vastness of astronomical time, but Earth now looks quite different when seen from space. In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer sea ice that once covered the Arctic is now half gone. Some of the islands of the Pacific have begun to disappear below rising seas. The great forests that covered South America and Africa are shrunken and ragged.
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Saturday, November 24, 2018
A Very Grim Forecast We're running out of options, and we're running out of decades. Over and over we've gotten scientific wake-up calls, and over and over we've hit the snooze button. If we keep doing that, climate change will no longer be a problem, because calling something a problem implies there's still a solution.
Saturday, November 24, 2018A Very Grim Forecast We're running out of options, and we're running out of decades. Over and over we've gotten scientific wake-up calls, and over and over we've hit the snooze button. If we keep doing that, climate change will no longer be a problem, because calling something a problem implies there's still a solution.
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Sunday, November 18, 2018
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet In 1988, George H. W. Bush, running for President, promised that he would fight "the greenhouse effect with the White House effect." He did not, nor did his successors, nor did their peers in seats of power around the world, and so in the intervening decades what was a theoretical threat has become a fierce daily reality.
Sunday, November 18, 2018How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet In 1988, George H. W. Bush, running for President, promised that he would fight "the greenhouse effect with the White House effect." He did not, nor did his successors, nor did their peers in seats of power around the world, and so in the intervening decades what was a theoretical threat has become a fierce daily reality.
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Sunday, November 11, 2018
Up Against Big Oil in the Midterms Every election cycle brings wins and losses. But every election cycle also brings us two years further down the path of irrevocable climate change. That's why even a mixed result can seem bruising.
Sunday, November 11, 2018Up Against Big Oil in the Midterms Every election cycle brings wins and losses. But every election cycle also brings us two years further down the path of irrevocable climate change. That's why even a mixed result can seem bruising.
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Friday, November 2, 2018
Big Oil is sloshing a crude tsunami across the country The Colorado initiative is modest to a fault: It wouldn't ban fracking, like New York, but instead merely restrict it to more than 2,500 feet from people's homes and schools. And yet the oil industry has pumped in $38 million so far -- the same amount of money that drew gasps when Beto O'Rourke announced he'd raised it in the last stage of his Senate bid.
Friday, November 2, 2018Big Oil is sloshing a crude tsunami across the country The Colorado initiative is modest to a fault: It wouldn't ban fracking, like New York, but instead merely restrict it to more than 2,500 feet from people's homes and schools. And yet the oil industry has pumped in $38 million so far -- the same amount of money that drew gasps when Beto O'Rourke announced he'd raised it in the last stage of his Senate bid.
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
Irish parliament makes history with vote to divest country fully from fossil fuels The year began with New York City divesting -- but it's continued with huge wins at universities and in cities around the globe. And better yet, Shell officially noted in its annual report last month that divestment has come to pose a material risk to their business. We're fighting for the zeitgeist -- for the vision of the future. And today anyway, we're winning.
Saturday, July 14, 2018Irish parliament makes history with vote to divest country fully from fossil fuels The year began with New York City divesting -- but it's continued with huge wins at universities and in cities around the globe. And better yet, Shell officially noted in its annual report last month that divestment has come to pose a material risk to their business. We're fighting for the zeitgeist -- for the vision of the future. And today anyway, we're winning.
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Anti-pipeline activists are fighting to stop Line 3. Will they succeed? In a rational world, anti-pipeline activism wouldn't be necessary. Any leader would take a look at a proposal to build a pipeline to carry dirty oil for the next half century and say, "On what planet? Not this one, because it's overheating."
Friday, June 29, 2018Anti-pipeline activists are fighting to stop Line 3. Will they succeed? In a rational world, anti-pipeline activism wouldn't be necessary. Any leader would take a look at a proposal to build a pipeline to carry dirty oil for the next half century and say, "On what planet? Not this one, because it's overheating."
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Monday, June 25, 2018
Some rare good climate news: the fossil fuel industry is weaker than ever There's been reason this month for hope -- reason, at least, to think that the basic trajectory of the world away from coal and gas and oil is firmly underway. From Wall Street came welcome word that market perceptions haven't really changed: even in the age of Trump, the fossil fuel industry has gone from the world's surest bet to an increasingly challenged enterprise.
Monday, June 25, 2018Some rare good climate news: the fossil fuel industry is weaker than ever There's been reason this month for hope -- reason, at least, to think that the basic trajectory of the world away from coal and gas and oil is firmly underway. From Wall Street came welcome word that market perceptions haven't really changed: even in the age of Trump, the fossil fuel industry has gone from the world's surest bet to an increasingly challenged enterprise.
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Saturday, June 16, 2018
Big Oil CEOs needed a climate change reality check. The pope delivered It's odd to have the pope schooling energy executives on the math of carbon. But actually, no odder than NFL quarterbacks schooling politicians on racial injustice, or high school kids schooling a nation on the danger of guns. Good common sense speaks even more loudly when it comes from unexpected corners.
Saturday, June 16, 2018Big Oil CEOs needed a climate change reality check. The pope delivered It's odd to have the pope schooling energy executives on the math of carbon. But actually, no odder than NFL quarterbacks schooling politicians on racial injustice, or high school kids schooling a nation on the danger of guns. Good common sense speaks even more loudly when it comes from unexpected corners.
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Sunday, June 10, 2018
Donald Trump is costing us one precious thing: time Climate change comes with a time limit. We don't have four years to waste ignoring it, not when Arctic sea ice is reaching new lows and temperatures are breaking records. Even if a new president someday takes up climate seriously, the carbon we're spewing now will still be in the atmosphere to haunt us over geological time. Time is the trouble.
Sunday, June 10, 2018Donald Trump is costing us one precious thing: time Climate change comes with a time limit. We don't have four years to waste ignoring it, not when Arctic sea ice is reaching new lows and temperatures are breaking records. Even if a new president someday takes up climate seriously, the carbon we're spewing now will still be in the atmosphere to haunt us over geological time. Time is the trouble.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Say hello to Justin Trudeau, the world's newest oil executive Justin Trudeau's government announced on Tuesday that it would nationalize the Kinder Morgan pipeline running from the tar sands of Alberta to the tidewater of British Columbia. It will fork over at least $4.5bn in Canadian taxpayers' money for the right to own a 60-year-old pipe that springs leaks regularly, and the right to push through a second pipeline on the same route -- a proposal that has provoked strong opposition.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018Say hello to Justin Trudeau, the world's newest oil executive Justin Trudeau's government announced on Tuesday that it would nationalize the Kinder Morgan pipeline running from the tar sands of Alberta to the tidewater of British Columbia. It will fork over at least $4.5bn in Canadian taxpayers' money for the right to own a 60-year-old pipe that springs leaks regularly, and the right to push through a second pipeline on the same route -- a proposal that has provoked strong opposition.
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Monday, May 21, 2018
Hit Fossil Fuels Where It Hurts -- the Bottom Line The oil industry is slowly being cornered, like the tobacco industry before it. Just as they once promised to go "Smoke Free," towns across the country are now pledging to go "Fossil Free," banning new fossil-fuel projects and committing to 100 percent renewable energy for all.
Monday, May 21, 2018Hit Fossil Fuels Where It Hurts -- the Bottom Line The oil industry is slowly being cornered, like the tobacco industry before it. Just as they once promised to go "Smoke Free," towns across the country are now pledging to go "Fossil Free," banning new fossil-fuel projects and committing to 100 percent renewable energy for all.
