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Environment
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Now, What Climate Action?
Our political leaders won't lead so those who do recognize the dangers and who are serious about climate mitigation must step up to the plate.
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In a Warming World We Can’t Keep Depending on the Same Few Crops
Our entire food system is in a precarious state, propped up by a narrow elite range of major crops backed by global research and advocacy.
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Global Drug Report: Don’t Just Decriminalize, Demilitarize
“The drug war is a pretext for the militarization of resource rich areas in Mexico and Central America, as happened with Plan Colombia in Colombia,” said Dawn Paley, author …
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Building Blocks
Naomi Klein on Cause of Climate Crisis: “Capitalism Is Stupid“
In this exclusive interview, Naomi Klein talks about extractivism, activism and the way to change hearts and minds around climate change.
It’s Not the Carbon; It’s the Capitalism!
The big climate march in New York City and a big new book have concentrated attention on the climate.
Flood Wall Street: 100 Arrested at Sit-In Targeting Financial Giants’ Role in Global Warming
One day after the largest climate march in history in New York City, protesters rallied near Wall Street on Monday to highlight the financial industry's role in fueling climate …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: World’s Largest Climate March Takes Over NYC, and More
In today's On the News segment: World's largest climate march takes over New York City, and more.
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UN Report: Human-Caused Climate Disruption Is “Severe, Pervasive, Irreversible“
A recently released draft report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that anthropogenic climate disruption is fully upon us, and will dramatically worsen unless something is …
Can a “Firewall Strategy” Keep Big Energy Out of Climate Talks? It Worked for Fighting Tobacco
Kicking the polluters out of the negotiations may sound like wishful thinking. But there is a precedent: the global effort to regulate the tobacco industry.