climate change

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• 9/22/19
  

  Does Our Climate Crisis Make the 2020 Election Our Most Crucial One Ever?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Youth activism like the kind currently being globally displayed also encourages us, but it also reminds us how tough the struggle ahead will be.

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• 9/1/19
  

  The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism

  by Erik Curren

  Why has it taken so long for the climate movement to accomplish so little? And, since the clock is ticking to curb runaway global heating, how can we do better in the future?

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• 9/1/19
  

  Searching for El Dorado: The Colonial Fantasy of the Amazon

  by Ed Simon

  There is a direct ideological thread that runs from the early explorers of the Caribbean and South America and the current environmental catastrophe unfolding in the Brazilian rainforest as fire burns its way across the length of a land which was once called paradise. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  July 17, 2019
  

  The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate

  by Katharine Wilkinson

  A female scientist made the connection between carbon dioxide and global warming in the mid 19th century. 

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• 7/21/19
  

  Climate Change and the Last Great Awakening

  by Douglas S. Harvey

  The Last Great Awakening, if it is to be massive and successful, must involve profoundly altering our personal behaviors and inner lives while seriously committing to living in a sustainable way.

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  7/11/2019
  

  Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland

  Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk

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• SOURCE: Popular Mechanics
  7/12/19
  

  The Surprising Things Arctic Ice Can Tell Us About Human History

  In a new study, scientists say that particles of lead trapped in ice in the north pole tell the story of commercial and industrial processes dating back to the Middle Ages.

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• SOURCE: AP
  https://www.apnews.com/33adc66aee4c40cea19d6049bb6
  

  'History on a stick’ signs disappearing too fast to keep up

  Hurricanes, thievery and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can keep up.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Silent Spring: Why Rachel Carson’s words still ring true today

  by Catherine Whitlock

  Any future US president would do well to heed the likes of Rachel Carson and her successors and invest in clean energy policies, protect the environment, and promote biodiversity.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Are Historians Doing Enough to Address Climate Change?

  by Walter G. Moss

  For too long historians also paid too little attention to the most important topic of our day.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/11/19
  

  What Does It Mean to be "Great" Amidst Global Climate Change

  by David Bromwich

  How can Robert Frost, Graham Greene, Immanuel Kant, and others help us understand values and climate change?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/20/19
  

  Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

  by Kenneth Seligson

  While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/7/19
  

  Hamburgers Have Been Conscripted Into the Fight Over the Green New Deal. The History of American Beef Shows Why

  by Joshua Specht

  Hamburgers are the newest front in the culture wars.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/25/19
  

  Suicide Watch on Planet Earth

  by Tom Engelhardt

  As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists Appeared.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  4/12/19
  

  Why Democratic Presidential Candidates Should Make Climate Change Their #1 Issue

  by Walter G. Moss

  Nothing else—including medical care, the economy, income inequality, immigration, racism, or the gender or race of a candidate—is more important.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 3/26/19
  

  How the Little Ice Age Changed History

  Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures—and may have given rise to the modern world.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/28/19
  

  What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  A Wide-Ranging History Explaining How Climate Change Could End Washington’s Global Dominion

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• 3/3/19
  

  The English Diggers, the "Commons," and the Green New Deal

  by Ed Simon

  The idea of the “commons” as a space of collective ownership, responsibility, engagement, and possibility must be a metaphor that the left draws from rhetorically. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths

  by Walter G. Moss

  How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/19/19
  

  A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy

  The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?