Why Climate Action is the Antithesis of White Supremacy
By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian blog
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.
By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian blog
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.
By Frida Berrigan, Tom Dispatch
I’m not going to fail as a parent. I’m already listening to the school strikers, many just a few years older than Rosena. I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
I would even venture that climate change is becoming one of the topics most talked about—or like religion and politics not to be talked about—around dinner tables. I credit the rising tide of youth activism for this rather sudden reversal of fortune.
By Marc Hudson, The Conversation
Coordinated school strikes may be a novel tactic, but mass environmental activism isn’t. So will things be any more successful this time around?
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
This one has to succeed. It is not just that the youth climate strike, now building worldwide with tremendous speed, is our best (and possibly our last) hope of avoiding catastrophe.
By Rupert Read, The Conversation
A worldwide wave of school climate strikes, begun by the remarkable Greta Thunberg, has reached the UK. Some critics claim these activist-pupils are simply playing truant, but I disagree. Speaking as both a climate campaigner and an academic philosopher, I believe school walkouts are morally and politically justifiable.