Why VSCO Girls are Going on Strike for the Climate
It’s not as if all VSCO Girls are sleeper climate champions. But as climate organizing has come to involve more people, it sucks the trends of the day up.
The Solution to Climate Despair Is Disaster Communism
People around the world are feeling terror grief, and despair. The threat of climate change is real. But it doesn’t mean humanity will slide inevitably into barbarism and extinction. “Disaster Communism” offers a way out. A response to Jonathan Franzen.
Amazon Employees Are Walking Out Over the Company's Huge Carbon Footprint
Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.
Ban Private Jets
We know who’s responsible for the climate crisis: rich people. Nowhere is this clearer than in aviation, with billionaires’ private jets ravaging the planet. We need to ban them now.
A Climate Change Proposal That Would Terrify Democratic Presidential Candidates
If celebrities, billionaires, and executives decided to give up private jets and yachts, we’d know they actually care about climate change.
If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oil | Bill McKibben
The climate crisis isn’t the only reason to kick fossil fuels – the prospect of a war to protect Saudi crude reminds us of that, says environmentalist and author Bill McKibben
Stop Asking People of Color to Get Arrested to Protest Climate Change
Extinction Rebellion is overwhelmingly shaped by the concerns, priorities, and ideas of middle-class white people. If it doesn't tackle white supremacy, it doesn't serve us.
Climate change and mitigation
There is a new IMF paper out on climate change and what policy instruments are available to do something about it. I write this post from Brazil, where the fires in the Amazon rage on and the Bolsonar…
Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
Business as usual is what’s doing us in. We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in the midst of an enormous physical crisis. Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere…
Out of Time | Astra Taylor
Listening to the climate’s clock.
Follow the Carbon
Typically, we measure emissions that occur within a geographic boundary. But consumption-based accounting tells a different story: that affluent communities depend heavily on polluting activity that o…
Tomgram: John Feffer, How to Decide the Fate of the Planet | TomDispatch
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'Americans are waking up': two thirds say climate crisis must be addressed
Major CBS News poll released as part of Covering Climate Now, a collaboration of more than 250 news outlets around the world to strengthen coverage of the climate story
Naomi Klein: 'We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism'
The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope
How Are Unions Around the World Responding to the Youth-Led “Climate Strike” Calls? — TUED Bulletin 88
[Note: This is an archived version of TUED Bulletin 88. Please click here for the latest list of union statements and actions in response to calls for global climate solidarity actions.]August 19,