How to discuss climate change with your uncle
Most people know better than to bring up politics, religion or climatology in polite company. It’s a recipe for arguments, or at least for awkwardness. But when families get together, that recipe is often dusted off anyway. And whether it’s…
Climate-Crazed Seminary Confesses Sins To Plants In ‘Beautiful Ritual’
On Tuesday, Union Theological Seminary hosted a chapel service in which self-identified Christians confessed their climate sins to plants. No, this is not satire from The Babylon Bee — this really happened, and the seminary is defending it without shame….
‘Wake up and face facts’ : Greta Thunberg pleads with politicians to lead fight against climate crisis – as it happened
That’s it from the Liveblog for today. Greta Thunberg capped her visit to Capitol Hill with a rallying message, urging action on climate change. “This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced and we need to treat it accordingly.”…
The public is waking up to global warming – The Washington Post
By Letters to the Editor September 18 at 5:08 PM Two articles in the Sept. 13 paper spoke to the world’s greatest threat besides politics: the overwhelming use of fossil fuels. Reed Hundt’s Friday Opinion essay, “Firms need to cooperate…
ADAPTATION: ‘Managed retreat’ enters presidential politics
Democrats running for president have started to address one of the most controversial facets of climate politics — retreating from at-risk areas.
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns – The New Yorker
I’m skilled at eluding the fetal crouch of despair—because I’ve been working on climate change for thirty years, I’ve learned to parcel out my angst, to keep my distress under control. But, in the past few months, I’ve more often…
ADVOCACY: Activist Greta Thunberg headlines week of climate protests
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg last week joined a group of teens and young adults waving banners and shouting for action in a climate protest in front of the White House.
Climate change is already here. You have one last chance to stop it – Los Angeles Times
The world is drifting steadily toward a climate catastrophe. For many of us, that’s been clear for a few years or maybe a decade or even a few decades. But others have known that a reckoning was coming for much…
Teen girls strike for global action on climate change – NBC News
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — It was the floodwaters brushing her jawline that convinced Theresa Sebastian it was time to get serious about climate change. The teen from Ireland was in Kerala, India, for a family wedding last summer when the region…
Naomi Klein: ‘We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism’
Why are you publishing this book now?I still feel that the way that we talk about climate change is too compartmentalised, too siloed from the other crises we face. A really strong theme running through the book is the links…
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