The devastating effects of the climate crisis are here. The short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry are not more important than our planet. The Senate must reject the dirty side deal to approve a pipeline through West Virginia. . Video Source
Climate Wars: The US’s divide on climate change – Part 1 | People and Power
Like the rest of the world, the United States has seen record temperatures, drought and wildfires in recent years - some of the long-predicted consequences of made-made global warming. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a spending bill that – among other provisions for healthcare and tax reform – will commit nearly... Continue Reading →
Climate Wars: The US’s divide on climate change – Part 2 | People and Power
Like the rest of the world, the United States has seen record temperatures, drought and wildfires in recent years - some of the long-predicted consequences of made-made global warming. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a spending bill that – among other provisions for healthcare and tax reform – will commit nearly... Continue Reading →
End fossil fuels to protect human health | Carolyn Orr | TEDxUWA
Carolyn explores how fossil fuels are harming our health, and shows that a world without coal, oil or gas will be cleaner, healthier and safer for us all. She believes that each of us has the power and the responsibility to help hasten the transition to a world without fossil fuels. Carolyn is a Perth-based... Continue Reading →
How bad can it (climate change) get? The sky’s the limit! No pun intended. Still, the general public is tired of negative articles about climate change. It turns them off. Climate change is impossible to deal with. It’s too much; it’s too negative! As a result, baffling emails come with loud and clear messages, some... Continue Reading →
How Bad Can It Get?
Rally Thursday Against Manchin's Dirty Deal--and Do Some Lobbying in the Meantime! . The Washington Post, which has done remarkable climate reporting in recent years, had a less successful story in this morning’s paper. Headlined (in oddly editorial fashion) “To fight climate change, environmentalists may have to give up a core belief,” it argues (citing... Continue Reading →
A pipeline is not a windmill
To tackle climate, experts say, environmentalists have to embrace big energy projects. Fast. . For decades, environmentalists have made their mark by stopping things. Petroleum facilities that spew toxic air pollution. Pipelines that cut across Indigenous lands. Drilling for oil and gas. But climate change is about to change everything. To cut U.S. greenhouse gas... Continue Reading →
To fight climate change, environmentalists may have to give up a core belief
The point of biking or going vegan isn’t the impact of a single person’s choice. It’s about throwing everything we’ve got at a problem that feels overwhelming. I’ve been making some lifestyle changes this past year. First I went vegan. I’d been vegetarian for a decade and a half, but I’ve always loved cheese so... Continue Reading →
Why I’m Changing My Consumption—Even Though Climate Policy Is More Important Than Personal Choice
Can we stop the deserts from spreading?
Earth's soils are degrading into deserts at an unprecedented rate, with catastrophic consequences. The good news is that humans can turn them into fertile land. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas... Continue Reading →
Recent extreme weather events have underscored the need to cut the CO₂ emissions that are driving up global temperatures. This requires a rapid transition of the energy economy to renewable energy sources, the cheapest being solar photovoltaics (PV). And our newly published research points to a way we can drive down costs of the shift... Continue Reading →
Solar is the cheapest power, and a literal light-bulb moment showed us we can cut costs and emissions even further
Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’ & Preventing Plant Extinction Caused by Climate Change & Humanity is on track to cause one million species to go extinct, according to UN report & ‘Dangerously underexplored’: Experts warn climate change could lead to extinction of humanity & Start considering the worst-case ‘mass extinction’ scenarios of... Continue Reading →