By Elizabeth Sawin, Resilience.org
I hate so many things about climate change: the waste, the injustice that those who have contributed least suffer the most, the lost opportunities for prevention. But, there is something that inspires me in the notion that climate change could teach us to soften.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Since the US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) July 30th denial of the federal government’s motions to dismiss the case of Juliana vs. US, the plaintiffs and their attorneys have been preparing for trial—the one the Trump administration had hoped to avoid and that others are calling the trial of the century.
By Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence
The extreme weather events of the summer of 2018 are not just symptoms of climate breakdown. They are early stage warnings of a protracted process of civilisational collapse as industrial societies face some of the opening symptoms of having already breached the limits of a safe climate.
By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog
Two Pennsylvania children and a Philadelphia-based environmental organization filed suit on Monday against the Trump administration for its gutting of climate regulations, laws, and policies—actions which show the government's "reckless and deliberate indifference to the established clear and present dangers of climate change."
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
The global climate justice movement must inevitably confront the looming nightmare of COP21 in Paris in a few short months, and live with its outcome long after that.