Environmentalism

By Alexander Hensby | – Extinction Rebellion burst onto everybody’s screens with disruptions and mass arrests across the UK and around the world, in protest against government inaction on climate change. Radical disruptions have been at the heart of Extinction Rebellion’s activism since it was founded in 2018 – from January’s disruption of London Fashion […]

Climate Change

Earth Day: Can the Sixth Extinction be Slowed?

The Conversation

Greg Asner, Arizona State University Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious setbacks to life on our planet. The fifth, which was caused by a gargantuan meteorite impact along Mexico’s Yucatan coast, changed Earth’s climate, took out the dinosaurs and altered the […]

Climate Change

Going Green has to be Systemic & Legislated: “Personal Responsibility” is a Corporate Dodge

Jill Richardson

(Otherwords.org) – Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The assignment was to assess your values, explain how you thought you would live as an adult (about 20 years in the future), and then complete an online calculator to find out: If everyone in the world […]

Climate Change

How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum

The Conversation

By Harriet Thew | – As part of one of the largest environmental protests ever seen, over a million young people went on strike on Friday March 15 2019, calling for more ambitious action on climate change. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, a Swedish school girl who protested outside the Swedish parliament every Friday throughout 2018, […]

Climate Change

Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

AFP

By AFP bureaux | – Montreal (AFP) – Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student strike called demonstrations in more than 100 countries. Students flooded into the streets across Europe, North and South America, and Asia carrying placards reading: “There is no planet B”, “You’re […]

Climate Change

Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: Not Implementing it is too Expensive

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Critics dismiss it as a dream. But that’s precisely what it is. It’s visionary. By John Feffer, February 20, 2019. Print Shutterstock It’s become a common trope of the Trump era for columnists and commentators to attack the lunacy of the far right at the same time as castigating the […]

Environmentalism

Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet and Create Jobs?

Norah Vawter

By Norah Vawter | – (Otherwords.org) – Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the release of its […]

Environmentalism

Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card

Lauren Burke

Fifty young people affiliated with the Sunrise Movement were arrested on November 13 in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office, following a sit-in demanding that Democrats use their new majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to launch a comprehensive plan to confront climate change — a Green New Deal. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not only […]

Environmentalism

Ireland To Become First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

TeleSur

“Countries the world over must now urgently follow Ireland’s lead and divest from fossil fuels,” said Gerry Liston at Global Legal Action Network. Ireland’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill across party lines that will require the country to divest all of its shares in fossil fuel companies. All investments in coal, oil, […]