Climate Crisis

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The climate crisis suffers from an odd contradiction. The seriousness of the issue is not matched by comparable efforts to articulate and address the crisis. Though activism among the young has picked up dramatically, older citizens, even those who completely accept climate science, generally remain politically quiescent. […]

Bernie Sanders

On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders is the Only one who Can Save America

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Generations of orators have told the story that if you put a frog in a pan of steaming water it will immediately jump out, but if you put it in a pan of cold water and gradually heat it, it will be lulled and end up boiled to death. The […]

Climate Crisis

It is All Right for Journalists to Call Denials of the Climate Crisis what they are: Lethal Falsehoods

The Conversation

By Denis Muller | – In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked. His reasons were succinct: Climate change deniers and those […]

Climate Crisis

Coalxit? Germany, 4th Largest Economy, Officially Approves Phase-Out of Coal

Clean Energy Wire

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a commission proposal made last year to end coal no later than 2038. The […]

Climate Crisis

Being our own Hope: Running for Office in the Age of Trump and Climate Crisis

Frida Berrigan

(Tomdispatch.com) – “YES!” he yelled, thrusting his fist in the air. “We get to live in the mayor’s house!” My son’s reaction when I told his two sisters and him that I was running for mayor of our town became the laugh line of my campaign. But in real time, I had to burst his […]

Australia

We’re All Australians Now: The Climate Conflagration is Coming for Us, too

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me betray my age for a moment. Some of you, I know, will be shocked, but I still read an actual newspaper. Words on real paper every day. I’m talking about the New York Times, and something stuck with me from the January 9th edition of that “paper” paper. Of […]

Climate Crisis

We need a Whole Revolution: Why Incremental Change won’t solve the Climate Crisis

The Conversation

By Matthew Hoffmann and Steven Bernstein | – Work crews descended on 12 commuter parking lots in Toronto in late November 2018, and headed to the electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Their work came on the heels of an IPCC report that warned of dire environmental, economic and health consequences in the absence of any […]

Climate Crisis

Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

Waging Nonviolence

From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.

Australia

Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran’s Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia’s Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

John Buell

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The first month of 2020 has been full of lessons—if we are willing to listen. With over 200 brush fires burning in Australia and an area as big as West Virginia already scorched, Australia’s problems are hardly confined to the subcontinent. In a telling irony the plumes […]