The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released earlier today brings a dire warning: climate change is accelerating and aggressive action is needed. The report details how the severe impacts of the climate crisis are already upon us. These are evidenced by increasing water shortages and wildfires in some areas, and coastal flooding and... Continue Reading →
The Time to Act on the Climate Crisis is NOW
Friends, the thoughts of the Free Speech TV team are with you as wildfires continue to scorch the West. We’re saddened by the destruction of homes and habitats, by the dangerous smoke-filled air, and by too many lives lost or shattered. We hope you and your loved ones stay safe. These fires are fueled by... Continue Reading →
“A Code Red for Humanity”: Major U.N. Report Warns of Climate Catastrophe If Urgent Action Not Taken
In its first major report in nearly a decade, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned the Earth could face runaway global temperature changes unless drastic efforts are made to reduce greenhouse gases. The IPCC says humans are “unequivocally” to blame for the climate crisis, which has already caused “widespread and rapid changes.” Scientists... Continue Reading →
Remembering climate change…a message from the year 2071
Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time. MORE...
IPCC Climate Report explained by scientist: Humans are unequivocally to blame for a warmer planet, according to the IPCC's climate report — and Dr. Sweta Chakraborty says it’s up to humans to fix it, too. Source...
IPCC Climate Report Explained by Scientist
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate
"Only when you are able to face the future as it is—not as it was or as you dreamed it would be—will you fully grieve and be ready to move on."
Facing the Climate Emergency: Grieving The Future You Thought You Had
The South is unique for its biodiversity, culture of resiliency, and incredible diversity. It has long been the home of the most destructive extractive industries and the dumping ground for waste. Our region has a unique need for sustainable development due to its systemic underinvestment, over-extraction, and poor infrastructure. Very little has been done to ensure... Continue Reading →
Southern Communities for a Green New Deal
NRDC senior program advocate Sasha Forbes explains what it means to be displaced by climate change and why cities must invest in long-term housing affordability—and a self-sustaining future—for their low-income communities and communities of color. The cycle is all too familiar: Affluent residents move into lower-income neighborhoods in cities and make their mark on the... Continue Reading →
What Is Climate Gentrification?
This podcast is dedicated to lifting up and centering the climate and environmental justice movement in the South. Despite the South being the most biodiverse, diverse, and one of the largest economic engines in the world, we are underfunded and often barred from the decision-making table. So we decided to pull up a chair and... Continue Reading →