Philosopher Peter Singer: ‘There’s no reason to say humans have more worth or moral status than animals’
Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation, published in 1975, exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them. Now, nearly 50 years on,…
Climate change is a major problem. These Boston leaders have solutions. – The Boston Globe
Some of Greater Boston’s most promising tech entrepreneurs are tackling the biggest imaginable task — slowing the pace of global warming. Boston has long been a center of clean energy, driven by innovations spinning out of the Massachusetts Institute of…
Opinion | Florida. Arizona. Climate Change Is Coming for Home Values. – The New York Times
If you don’t think you’ve been affected by global warming, take a closer look at your last homeowners’ insurance bill: The average cost of coverage has reached $1,900 a year nationwide, but it’s $4,000 a year in New Orleans and…
Opinion | My Continent Is Not Your Giant Climate Laboratory – The New York Times
Several environmentalists last year presented Africa’s leading climate negotiators with a bold idea: A technology called solar geoengineering could protect their countries from the worst effects of climate change, they said. While insisting they were impartial, representatives from the Carnegie…
The Fed’s Climate Studies Are Full Of Hot Air
The Federal Reserve’s credibility is in tatters. It predicted low inflation through 2021 even as the money supply exploded and higher inflation followed. To catch up, it quickly raised interest rates, stressing many banks, and Fed examiners failed to act…
‘We have money and power’: older Americans to blockade banks in climate protest
Climate activists across the US will on Tuesday blockade branches of banks that finance fossil fuels, cutting up their credit cards in protest and holding rallies featuring everything from flash mobs to papier-mache orca whales. Unusually for such a spectacle,…
Biden climate legacy tested by backlash over Willow project – Detroit News
Washington – When Elise Joshi was at the White House last year, her eyes welled with happy tears as President Joe Biden hosted thousands of supporters to celebrate groundbreaking legislation targeting climate change. “In that moment, I felt a lot…
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…
Could volcanos hold key to climate crisis? Scientists are spilt – Al Jazeera English
Taipei, Taiwan – At opposite ends of Southeast Asia, researchers Pornampai Narenpitak and Heri Kuswanto are both working on the same problem: Is it possible to mimic the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions to halt global warming? Using computer modelling…
From cradle to compost: the disruptors who want to make death greener
Americans are looking for greener ways to die, and a new wave of deathcare startups are rising to the occasion. After death, bodies are typically handled in one of two ways: embalmed and buried in a casket, or incinerated and…
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