Dissonance and Divestment: Profile of An Activist
“Why should people divest from the fossil fuel sector?” Lisa Renstrom pauses and thinks. “Let me count the ways.”
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Fighting for our Lives
We face a profoundly uncertain future, but all we really need for the road ahead is our moral compass and our deep and abiding love. I am asking you—I am begging you—to think about what that means to you, and what you can do rise to the challenge. My life, and your life, and all the life around us—they’re worth fighting for.
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution – Excerpts
This book explores a lot of territory. It discusses climate science, climate policy, and aquifer depletion — as well as mythology, meditation, and beekeeping. These and other topics herein have been written about in greater detail elsewhere. There are entire volumes devoted to backyard chickens. So why mention them here, in a book with “climate” in its title?
Protecting “Country” in Australia
If nothing is done to stop the impact of climate change, some of the oldest living cultures in the world could die out. An all-Indigenous youth activist group in Australia has risen to the challenge.
McKibben: It’s time to declare war on climate change
We’re under attack, said author and climate campaigner Bill McKibben, and the only way to defeat the enemy is to declare a global war against the destructive practices that threaten the world’s imperiled ecosystems and human civilization as we know it.
Climate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
Thus it’s not inappropriate to ask what happened to all the apparent political momentum the climate change movement had ten or fifteen years ago, and why a movement so apparently well organized, well funded, and backed by so large a scientific consensus failed so completely.
Film review: ‘This Changes Everything’
Although the title is ‘This Changes Everything’, you are left with the sense that very little is actually changing for the better at all.
Breaking Free: 12 Days of Protest Open a Summer of Environmental Discontent
On May 3 some of the biggest ever global actions against climate change began, and are running for 12 consecutive days through Sunday, May 15.
The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning
The movement to stop fossil fuel development just keeps winning.
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.
Post-Paris Analysis: 1.5 degrees and Mobilization
The Paris climate talks are over, and the postmortems on the final agreement are flooding in. Here’s our take…
This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis Film Re-imagines Vast Challenge of Climate Change
We speak to the duo behind the new film, "This Changes Everything," which re-imagines the vast challenge of climate change.