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Climate Crisis
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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.
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World Energy Report 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Really, Truly Ugly
Michael T. Klare: Of all the findings in the 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook, the one that merits the greatest international attention is the one that received …
Chris Hedges: Stand Still for the Apocalypse
The political and corporate elites in the industrialized world continue, in spite of overwhelming scientific data, to place short-term corporate profit and expediency before the protection of human life …
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Giving Back to the Future
Coming to terms with personal and collective responsibility as the destruction our unfettered consumption has wrought becomes clearer every day.