France’s Macron Makes Concessions While ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Continue
Some background on the demands the gilets jaunes are presenting to French president Macron.
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The Reality Is Everything Must Change
Why we need the biggest change program in history and must deploy state-created money to mobilize resources.
Read more...As Global Climate Talks Proceed, Trump EPA Opts to Weaken Coal Emissions Standards
While parties to the 2015 Paris Accord conduct negotiations in Katowice, Poland, the EPA has opted to weaken coal emission standards promulgated during the administration of Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...Jane Sanders: Climate Crisis Critical Issue in 2020 Elections
In this Real News Network interview, Jane Sanders discusses the climate crisis and tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests.
Read more...Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...Michael Olenick: A Quick Look at the Gilets Jaunes Protests. Update: They Won!
An overview of the gilets jaunes movement.
Read more...Protecting Coral Reefs: Sustainable Scuba Diving Practices
PADI, the world’s largest scuba diving training and certification group, and British conservation charity Reef-World Foundation, have joined forces to support the Green Fins scheme, to mitigate the impact of recreational diving on already-stressed coral reefs.
Read more...Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Fast Fashion: Commons Committee Questions Business Model
House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee conducts hearing on waste in the fashion industry – particularly, ‘fast fashion’.
Read more...Waste Not, Want Not
Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Read more...Breaking Down What Climate Change Will Do, Region by Region
A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...Betting on BECCS: Will Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage Help the Climate?
BECCS has big problems with its inputs and its outputs. Perhaps other solution to global warming should be prioritized.
Read more...How Economists Impede Addressing Climate Change
Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report
Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
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