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Climate Crisis

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Climate Silence, Nuclear Silence and Solar Silence: An Unholy Trinity
Unholy Trinity of silence on climate, nuclear power and alternative possibilities is deafening.

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Schizophrenics, Psychopaths Holding America Hostage
The greatest threat to the United States will never be Al Qaeda, Russia, China or Iran. It will be our failure to wrest control of public policy from the …

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American Justice: Marijuana Convicts Scarred While BP Execs Untouched
While young black males are disenfranchised for life for dealing modest amounts of weed, BP can expect to be back to business as usual despite its horrific crimes.

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Welcome Back to the Dark Ages
How are you going to have effective science education if schools have to give equal time to the views of fundamentalist Christians?

Five Ways the Space Program Helps Us Fight Climate Change
From tracking glaciers to predicting crop failure to figuring out how to store solar energy in molten salt, NASA has produced some of our best tools in the fight …

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Henry A. Giroux | Hurricane Sandy in the Age of Disposability and Neoliberal Terror
Democracy can only approach its promise when it protects all members of society.

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Fossil Fuel Lobby in the Driver’s Seat at Doha
A new scientific report shows that global warming can be kept well under two degrees C, but only if most of the known deposits of coal, oil and gas …

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Loss and Damage From Climate Change Must Not Become the “New Normal“
As United Nations climate talks get underway this week in Doha, Qatar, they show a subtle, unsettling shift in the global climate change debate.

Meet the Climate Denial Machine
Here are some of the industry-funded so-called experts that create a polarized misunderstanding of climate science.

Community, the Environment and the “Nonsexist City“
In this chapter, Gar Alperovitz charts the varied interconnections between community economic and environmental stability, gender-friendly community design and land ownership institutions.