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Climate Crisis
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Chronicling the War of Nature vs. Greed: A Review of “Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point“
The collected essays of Native Alaskans, environmental activists, scientists and researchers form a counternarrative to Big Oil's PR blitz in the increasingly polluted Northern Hemisphere.
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We Have Met the Environment, and It Is Us
A Constructive Critique of Bill McKibben's Article Global Warming's Terrifying New Math in Rolling Stone Magazine, July 20, 2012
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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
One of the great works in the establishment of civil and human rights is being shredded before our eyes.
Hope Is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dead World
First, to be a hope-monger or a hope-peddler today is not just a sign of weakness but also of laziness, and sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pennsylvania Mayor Cuts Police and Firefighter Pay to Minimum Wage, and More
In today's On the News segment: Scranton, Pennsylvania's mayor cuts police and firefighter pay to minimum wage, record-breaking heat wave can no longer be dismissed as “just summer,” corporations …
Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Other ALECs in Plan to Save Itself
Most Americans are now convinced that climate change is real because dramatic evidence keep piling up - searing heat waves, multiyear droughts, record-setting wildfires, unprecedented tornadoes and Biblical floods.
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Feeling the Heat
Still don't believe in climate change? Then you're either deep in denial or delirious from the heat.
Texas Activists Move Toward Tar Sands Blockade
Texas climate justice activists are prepared to use nonviolent, direct action to block the Keystone XL pipeline's construction.
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And You Thought It Would Be Easy? Graduating the Class of 2012 Onto Our Overheated Planet
Letu2019s admit something else about the heat today, as you bake under your graduation gowns: whether or not you have the figures at your fingertips, whether or not you …
Do the Koch Brothers Determine Our Energy Dependence?
Ever since President Roosevelt signed an oil agreement with Saudi Arabia in 1945, our fraught relationships in the Middle East have been driven by our militarized dependency on their …