climate change

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/23/2020
  

  Are We Living at the "Hinge of History"?

  Journalist Richard Fisher examines the argument that the present--this moment--is the most important juncture in human history because human capacity to affect the planet outstrips human wisdom to direct that capacity.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/26/2020
  

  Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster

  by Nicholas Lemann

  Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book by Tulane historian Andy Horowitz suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/4/2020
  

  How Understanding the History of Hurricanes Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Big One

  by Eric Jay Dolin

  We, as a society, can decide how best to respond to the continued barrage that is sure to come from the greatest storms on earth, thereby lessening their impact.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Humanity is an Endangered Species. Can We Do What it Takes to Save Ourselves?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The dire crises facing humanity--climate change, pandemic disease, widespread pollution, and nuclear weapons, to name a few--demand that we reject a fatalistic sense of impotence and the legacies of nationalism that prevent cooperative solutions. 

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  7/1/2020
  

  Underwater: Global Warming to Flood the Former Ports of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

  by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

  How will the inundation of historic seaports as climate change progresses affect historical memory of the Atlantic slave trade? 

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• SOURCE: ABC (Australia)
  5/25/2020
  

  Australia Heading Into New 'Fire Age', Warns Global Fire Historian

  Thirty years ago, Stephen J. Pyne wrote the definitive history of fire in Australia and has just released an updated version of his book, Still Burning Bush.

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• SOURCE: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
  5/15/2020
  

  What History Tells Us About Building Climate Coalitions

  Author Matto Mildenberger has examined how politics have shaped decades of climate policy in his new book, "Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/28/2020
  

  The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  by Michael T. Klare

  If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that it creates the conditions necessary to do what we have known was necessessary for decades: drastically curtail fossil fuel consumption.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2020
  

  How Past Crises Changed America’s Public Schools — ‘And so too Will COVID-19’

  by Ann Marie Ryan and Charles Tocci

  While this certainly feels unprecedented, the history of American public schooling shows us it's not.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  50 Years Later, Earth Day’s Unsolved Problem: How to Build a More Sustainable World

  The first celebration called for people to change their relationship with the planet. After a half-century, we’re still figuring out what that means.

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• 4/21/2020
  

  After 50 years of Earth Day, Will we Have 100?

  by Kimberlee Hurley

  This fiftieth celebration of Earth Day should serve as a celebration of the work that has been done. However, it should also serve as a wake-up call for the work that still needs to be done.

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• 4/21/2020
  

  50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Occasion for Hope and Action

  by Fred Zilian

  Organized by Denis Hayes, the first Earth Day was celebrated in ceremonies at some two thousand colleges and universities, ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the U.S.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/19/2020
  

  Ten Years After Deepwater Horizon, U.S. Is Still Vulnerable to Catastrophic Spills

  Members of the bipartisan commission created to investigate the spill say Congress and the Trump administration have failed to take safety seriously.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/20/2020
  

  The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer

  Denis Hayes organized the first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, he has continued fighting for environmental justice.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/2020
  

  The Western U.S. is Locked in the Grips of the First Human-Caused Megadrought, Study Finds

  Unlike historical megadroughts triggered by natural climate cycles, emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have contributed to the current one, the study finds.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  4/5/2020
  

  Will The Coronavirus Change How Skeptics Think About Science?

  Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of “Why Trust Science?” explores whether or not the world's lack of preparation for the coronavirus outbreak has a silver lining.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  4/7/2020
  

  When Environmentalists Won Over the Supreme Court

  How one improbable legal case drove the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases.  

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/2/2020
  

  The Hot & Bothered Podcast: Beyond the New Deal

  It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  4/4/2020
  

  Will Coronavirus Change How We Think About Climate Change?

  Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes believes the coronavirus may be a 'dress rehearsal' for the climate catastrophe looming on the horizon – and suggests why people want to deny both threats.

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• SOURCE: Michigan Live
  2/8/20
  

  University of Michigan plans teach-in, including history of climate activism, ahead of 50th Earth Day anniversary

  For Matt Lasseter, professor of history at UM, putting Earth Day and its ties to Michigan into historical context is key.