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US banks are sacrificing poor communities to the climate crisis | Ben Jealous and Bill McKibben

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will bring many forms of fallout. One of the most obvious consequences is that the biggest banks – Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America – will probably get even bigger. That is why…

GM Pays Netflix To Place EVs In Streaming Content To Push ‘All-Electric Future’

From streaming platforms for half-baked reality dating shows to normalizing electric vehicles. When Netflix engages in shameless product placement, you can be sure it will at least be extra woke. The left-wing steamer has entered a deal to feature General…

‘Don’t tell us the bad news all at once’: how to talk to kids about grown-up things

Toxic relationships If they’re lucky enough to avoid them at home, children are nonetheless exposed to toxic relationships on TV and social media – Ofcom received more than 3,000 complaints about misogynistic behaviour in just one episode of Love Island…

Will Steffen, ‘courageous’ climate scientist, dies in Canberra aged 75

Globally renowned Australian climate scientist Prof Will Steffen has died, aged 75, with former colleagues and family remembering him as an inspiring, courageous and gentle human. Steffen died in Canberra hospital on Sunday evening after almost a year of treatment…

Walrus Comeback Is More Good News Climate Crazies Won’t Admit

Maddeningly, I just missed Thor, the walrus, at Blyth on Tuesday. The animal, which appeared before a large crowd at Scarborough on New Year’s Day, had already headed north. Walrus sightings in British waters were once vanishingly rare: one in…

Doom isn’t inevitable: My top 10 climate lessons from 2022 – Los Angeles Times

This is the Dec. 29, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Another year gone by. Another 365…

Could Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ solve global warming with lies? – Syfy

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio recently premiered on Netflix. In the acclaimed director’s take on the familiar fairy tale, the action takes place in 1930s Italy during the heart of Mussolini’s fascist reign. This isn’t the Disney film you’re familiar with,…

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2022: The year of rolling polycrisis, but with a few glimmers of hope

This year, there were the lows of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, soaring prices and extreme weather, and the highs of an accelerating shift to green energy and space wonders from the James Webb Space Telescope

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