Conflict between science and ignorance is not new. Neither is our interest in having science prevail in that conflict: society’s advancement depends on it. What may be new with climate change is the size and scale of the implications to civilization and, to a degree, the ease with which people can ignore scientific insights without... Continue Reading →
millions of Americans exposed to ‘Off-the-Chart’
Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, just as the US, Europe, and India are experiencing this Summer
As the BBC notes, almost from the first moment that people realized that the human-caused climate crisis is real, there’s been an effort to determine how quickly action needed to be taken to stave off the worst outcomes. Could we wait 50 years? What about 30? What about 20? The answers are no, no, and no. Recent studies... Continue Reading →
we can’t get to Jan. 1, 2030, and throw a global switch
Climate change is not moving as slowly as we’d like to think. In fact, half of all the damage done through burning fossil fuels has been just over the last 30 years. Unfortunately, every year is now more damaging than the last. The good news is that we are not at a point of no... Continue Reading →
Why Climate Change is Worse Than You Think…
The Green New Deal, explained (YouTube)
What's actually in the Green New Deal? Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan to fight the effects of climate change. It’s the only American plan that actually acknowledges the size of the impending crisis. And it contains some difficult truths that we might not want to hear.... Continue Reading →
Bill Nye: Climate Change Is Now | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC
CO2 levels are the highest they have been in 3 million years. Bill Nye the Science Guy joins Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle with his thoughts on our warming planet. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc Continued at source...
Green New Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Continued at source...
show to the rest of the world that it can be done
Joshua Álvarez: “Become the model for a global, large nation and show to the rest of the world that it can be done, that we can transform our economy and our society into 100% renewable energy. And we can do it within the next 10 years, if the DNC has the guts to allow us to have... Continue Reading →
Nobody could have predicted that a Swedish teenager would shift the terms of the global climate debate in the way that Greta Thunberg has done. Since she began her school strike in Stockholm last August, Greta has addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, the European parliament and the UN climate talks in Poland. Last... Continue Reading →
The Guardian view on Greta Thunberg: seizing the future
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a forgone conclusion. Instead,... Continue Reading →
other surprise was how little reaction there was in our political system…
AMY GOODMAN: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?BILL McKIBBEN: You know, 30 years ago, when I started writing about this, it was a distant threat. We were issuing a warning. Scientists knew that as we burned coal and gas and oil, we were putting carbon in the atmosphere. They knew the... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 