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Climate Crisis

A Change in the Climate: The Climate Movement Steps Up
Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn't too early to say it: the People's Climate March changed the social map.

Risk Assessment Reigns in Budgeting, Except When it Comes to Climate
Climate change and defense spending are not mutually exclusive.

Why an Unequal Planet Can Never Be Green
The more wealth concentrates, the greater the strain on our biosphere. Top environmentalists get that connection. Now our societies must.

Dahr Jamail | Climate Disruption’s “Confederacy of Dunces“
Given that over 97 percent of climate scientists agree on the matter, the fact that anyone is questioning the reality of human-caused climate disruption remains an amazing phenomenon.

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War and Climate Change: Time to Connect the Dots
There has been a general failure of everyone concerned about war and climate change to connect the dots between them. That must change.

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Winged Warnings: Built for Survival, Birds in Trouble From Pole to Pole
Globally, one in eight - more than 1,300 species of birds - are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating.

East Asia: A Farewell to Arms
With climate change upon us, it's time to bury the hatchet in one of the world's most volatile regions.

The Obvious Relationship Between Climate and Family Planning – and Why We Don’t Talk About It
Policy makers need to recognize that family-planning policies affect a host of other issues.

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The Global Climate Strike: Why We Can’t Wait
A global climate strike can stop the machine responsible for creating the climate crisis.

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Don’t Blame Climate Change Deniers
The dominant story of the US mass media, “doom-sayers versus deniers,” is far too narrow to reflect the true complexity of the political landscape.