Pushing Up
Earth's military crisis, its climate crisis, and the paralyzing economic inequalities that burden impoverished people are linked.
Earth's military crisis, its climate crisis, and the paralyzing economic inequalities that burden impoverished people are linked.
The wealthy and their GOP apologists talk about poor people as the takers. They have it completely backward.
With campus sit-ins taking place in several states, a new generation of climate activists is taking the reins in an escalating fight for fossil fuel divestment that's sweeping the nation this spring.
While it is crucial for us to conserve water in our personal lives, we need to fundamentally change the way the majority of California’s water is used.
We need to end the age of fossil fuels the way the French ended the age of absolute monarchy.
Today’s children and generations to follow them face nightmares of scarcity, disease, mass displacement, social chaos, and war, due to our patterns of consumption and pollution.
A massive people’s climate movement against extracting some of the dirtiest oil on the planet had prevailed ... at least for now.
Both governments are still failing to make climate policy in line with the severity of the crisis. But pledges matter because movements can harness them to win even more.
This agreement isn’t a commitment to reduce carbon emissions on a timescale appropriate to the magnitude of the crisis. It mostly kicks the ball down the road.
Beset by a whole new level of global disaster, we have no choice but to find some completely new answers. Our survival depends on it.