Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” initiative was unveiled on Thursday and quickly became the target of disingenuous ridicule from both sides of the aisle. But as Whitney Webb highlights in this Dec 18, 2018 piece, there are very serious reasons to be concerned.
The U.S. Department of Defense produces more hazardous waste than the five biggest U.S.-based chemical companies combined and is the biggest contributor to global pollution in the world.
WASHINGTON -- This week, the Department of Defense released a report to Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jim Inhofe (R-OK) detailing the threat climate change poses to U.S. national security. Not only does the report fail to mention U.S. bases that have been destroyed or evacuated recently due to natural disasters, it completely omits the
“A main hypothesis is that hotter temperatures have a direct effect on human emotion and impulsivity.”
New research found a link between rising temperatures and suicide, indicating that unchecked climate change could lead to additional 9,000 to 40,000 suicides across the United States and Mexico by 2050. The findings by researchers at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley were published Monday in
The abject failure of liberal philanthropy to address climate change points to the urgency of a broad-based people’s strategy for climate education and action.
The strategy document, published by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in January, represents
We need a people’s movement to mobilise for ecological regeneration and systemic transformation.
One of the world’s biggest philanthropic initiatives to address climate change is set-up to fail catastrophically, according to a strategy document setting out the initiative’s five-year plan.
Humanity needs new tools to overcome the global crisis of collective insanity
The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which points to a nearly uninhabitable planet by the end of the century if business-as-usual continues, is perhaps its most apocalyptic dimension. But the ecological crisis is intimately bound up with the
In Trump’s White House, the most dangerous industry on earth has a stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy.
It’s said that you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. And the shady characters President Trump has surrounded himself with represent a new low even by Washington standards. One thread that ties many of these people together is their deep connection with the fossil fuel industry — and their willingness to
