WATCH TILL THE END! The idea is a simple one: the more of us there are, the harder we are to ignore. It’s people power, pure and simple. It’s worked throughout history and across the globe, and it will work again. It must. So, from now on, everyone is called upon to help us grow... Continue Reading →
About 50 years ago, the Clean Water Act was passed to protect natural waterways in the U.S. But sadly, the U.S. hasn't come close to achieving its goals. A recent report conducted by the Environmental Integrity Project estimates that half of rivers, streams, and lakes are simply too dirty to drink from, fish, or even... Continue Reading →
Half of U.S. Waterways Too Dirty to Swim, Fish, or Drink From, Report Finds
The unincorporated community of Naukati Bay is home to less than 150 people. But for those who live here, it’s one of the last places in the nation where residents are able to hunt and fish to fill their freezers and sustain their families. The town has no post office and almost no cell phone... Continue Reading →
The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
Since the start of the 2020s, humanity has faced worldwide calamity after worldwide calamity, all of them raising questions about our survival as a species. The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed millions of lives and not yet finished its rampage. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of nuclear holocaust, which many assumed has subsided... Continue Reading →
Plastic pollution could make much of humanity infertile, experts fear
"The 1.5-degree goal is on life support. It is in intensive care." So said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday, as he stressed that a swift and just transition to clean energy is necessary to meet the Paris agreement's objective of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels—and warned against using Russia's... Continue Reading →
Goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees ‘on life support’: UN chief
Consider this perhaps the strangest thing of all in our all-too-strange world: the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced essentially never leads the news. Yes, the immediate crises of our world, most recently Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, are 24/7 headlines for weeks at a time. And any set of events that sends millions... Continue Reading →
Billions of people at risk as climate change surges into ‘uncharted territory’
Winds Of (Climate) Change
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Most believe global warming is a problem, but the partisan divide is growing Even as windstorms became more powerful, wildfires grew more deadly and rising seas made damaging floods more frequent, Americans’ views about the threat of global warming over the past few years remain largely unchanged, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. A clear... Continue Reading →
The strong winds of climate change have failed to move the opinions of many Americans
Nature Is Bringing the Heat and We’re Acting Like a Deer in the Headlights
Why is it so hard to imagine something better than capitalism? Canada’s recent heat records, wildfires, and over 450 deaths are the tip of a quickly melting iceberg. And only a week earlier someone leaked an IPCC draft report which warns of just how close we are to a cascading failure of our precious ecosystems.... Continue Reading →
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Second Thought – The IPCC’s New “CODE RED” Climate Report
Dr. Thomas Goldsby, a professor of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee — Knoxville's Haslam College of Business, assigns his undergraduate student a "routine exercise" that frequently proves revelatory. Its purpose is to illustrate the complexity of the various trade routes that bring products from all over the world to consumers. The assignment... Continue Reading →
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