The Climate Emergency: Time to Switch to Panic Mode?
The latest temperature data have broken all records…
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A Few Thoughts on Studying the Most Radical Social Movement of the Twenty-first Century
The movements for environmental, climate, and social justice that I have spent my life studying and now participate in must become much stronger than at present. But my reading of world history leads me to believe that they can succeed.
The Carbon Counters: Tracking Emissions in a Post-Paris World
In the wake of the Paris climate agreement, developing countries find themselves in need of analysts capable of monitoring their emissions.
Big Oil Faces Courtroom Showdown
ExxonMobil is being investigated by the Attorney’s General of New York and California with a view to criminal charges for securities fraud and racketeering over their stance on climate change
Living in Interesting Times: Have CO2 Emissions Peaked?
The projections that had been circulating during the past few months turned out to be correct. Now, it is official: the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peaked in 2014 and went down in 2015. And this could be a momentous change.
Large Methane Leaks Highlight Ongoing Risk to Climate
A new study of the recent methane leak in Aliso Canyon, California confirms that it was the largest methane leak in US history.
Planting a million trees for Malawi
We will continue to plant the trees together with Malawi’s communities, and we have a joint responsibility to see they survive.
Review: The Age of Consequences by Courtney White
White strives to show how small, practical steps like these, rather than ever-more-grandiose advancements in industrial-age technology, are the real answer to meeting the calamities before us.
Carbon Budget is Only Half as Big as Thought
Climate scientists have bad news for governments, energy companies, motorists, passengers and citizens everywhere in the world…
Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
We have to keep 80 percent of the fossil-fuel reserves that we know about underground.
Toward a new rhetoric of political ecology: Can religion teach us something?
The effectiveness of religious rhetoric suggests that environmentalists ought not to discard it, but rather figure out how to harness it even more effectively. Environmentalism is, in fact, now emerging as a nonsectarian religious movement embraced by congregants as different in their religious beliefs as Pope Francis, the Creation Care movement of evangelical Christians, Jewish environmental activists, the Dalai Lama, and Islamic leaders and clerics.
Sustainability is Complex: There is no Single Diet Solution
We face huge challenges in feeding the world sustainably. But one thing is certain: grazing ruminant livestock – and the high-quality food they produce – can and should play a key role.
