YouTube Comment Quoted: Mike, a quote from Ruth Ben-Ghiat's book, Strongmen, on fascists-" No other type of ruler is so transparent about prioritizing self-preservation over the public good and so lacking in the human qualities that define ethical leadership...the strongman is at his worst as a leader when he is most needed by his country."... Continue Reading →
A revolutionary slogan by climate scientists “1.5C is Dead – Climate Revolution Now!” emblazoned the streets of the world on April 6th spawned by the Sixth Assessment Report, Mitigation of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released April 4th. Overnight, civil disobedience by climate scientists erupted in 25 countries on every continent enraged... Continue Reading →
“1.5C is Dead – Climate Revolution Now!”
As climate breakdown and worldwide conflict continue to place the food system at risk, seed banks from the Arctic to Lebanon try to safeguard biodiversity by Salomé Gómez-Upegui and Rita Liu As the risks from the climate crisis and global conflict increase, seed banks are increasingly considered a priceless resource that could one day prevent... Continue Reading →
Seed banks: the last line of defense against a threatening global food crisis
'What we do in the next 3-4 years, will determine the future of humanity' We are nonviolent Campaign Background: Allowing the extraction of new oil and gas resources in the UK is an obscene and genocidal policy that will kill our generation and condemn humanity to oblivion. It just has to stop. If we continue... Continue Reading →
Youth Climate Swarm
Growing numbers of young nonviolent climate protesters are willing to face jail. Dorian Lynskey followed them in the weeks leading up to last week’s action In a flat in east London, on the night of 31 March, two dozen people in their early 20s are packing sleeping bags and energy bars and discussing unorthodox toilet... Continue Reading →
Just Stop Oil: behind the scenes with the activists
Why we do it In March 2017 our founder Milo was on the ski slope. He noticed a sign with the CO₂ emissions of a week of winter sports. How strange that you can't compensate that, he thought. With a plane ticket you can. Once at home, he read in a study by CE Delft... Continue Reading →
CO2ok
I wanted to sound the alarm about oil exploration and the climate crisis, but Good Morning Britain just didn’t want to hear I hadn’t seen the 2021 satirical film Don’t Look Up when I went on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. I was there on behalf of Just Stop Oil – a group that has... Continue Reading →
I went on TV to explain Just Stop Oil – and it became a parody of Don’t Look Up
As other countries make "net zero" pledges — these three nations are leading the way. By Laurie Goering GLASGOW, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The heavily forested Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — which measures its success in "Gross National Happiness" — hasn't made a net zero pledge, like a growing number of nations. That's... Continue Reading →
A Small Group of Countries Are Actually ‘Carbon Negative’. Here’s How They’re Doing It.
If you want to trigger a conservative, just suggest nationalizing the US gas and oil industry. “Venezuela!” they’ll scream hysterically, perhaps adding a few, “Iran!” squeals. (Somehow, they always forget to yell about Norway…) Within minutes they’ll be croaking about that time back in 2008 when Maxine Waters — a Black woman with power and... Continue Reading →
‘It’s about saving the world’: Thom Hartmann calls on POTUS to ‘nationalize the fossil fuel industry’
Quote pulled from Bill McKibben’s recent article…
+Climate scientist Peter Kalmus, arrested in civil disobedience actions with many of his colleagues last week, explains why researchers are increasingly willing to take to the streets: Earth breakdown is much worse than most people realize. The science indicates that as fossil fuels continue to heat our planet, everything we love is at risk. For... Continue Reading →
By Susan Joy Hassol and Michael E. Mann | April 12, 2022 3:05 PM EDT | Hassol is the director of the non-profit Climate Communication. She publishes Quick Facts on the links between newsworthy events and climate change, and received the 2021 Ambassador Award from the American Geophysical Union. | Michael E. Mann is distinguished... Continue Reading →
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