climate change

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/12/19
  

  A girl named Greta and the seriously sexist history of Time’s Person of the Year

  At 16, she becomes the youngest Person of the Year ever, and only the fifth woman — er, girl; er, female — in the 90-plus years Time has been naming a Man/Woman/Person of the Year.

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• 11/17/19
  

  Which Would You Prefer―Nuclear War or Climate Catastrophe?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  A satirical examination of the threats facing the world. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11/10/19
  

  The Greatest Scam in History

  by Naomi Oreskes

  Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn’t happened. Why?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/30/19
  

  The priceless history inside the Reagan Library, narrowly saved from a fast-moving wildfire

  by Gillian Brockell

  The article includes tweets and quotes from historians Glenda Gilmore, Douglas M. Charles, Peter A. Shulman, and Kevin Kruse. 

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• 11/17/19
  

  The History Briefing on California Wildfires and Climate Change: How Historians Contextualized the News

  by Matthew Crawford

  Historians give much-needed context on the recent California wildfires and climate change. 

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• 10/29/19
  

  Climate Change Should Makes Us Reckon Our Long History with Wind Energy

  by Andrew Fletcher

  Climate change will make wind energy very important in the next 20 to 30 years. We should embrace its historical roots.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/23/19
  

  Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

  by Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern

  Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/22/19
  

  New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth

  by Christopher R. Moore

  What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/13/19
  

  Climate protests have roots that go deep into the rich history of British social change

  by Lucy Robinson

  Extinction Rebellion draws on a radical lineage that brings together a range of beliefs and ages.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/17/19
  

  The Greening of the New Deal

  by Steve Fraser

  The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now.

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• 10/6/19
  

  On Weather and History

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Thomas Jefferson’s Climate-Induced “Philosophical Hangover” Explained.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 23, 2019
  

  Protesters shut down D.C. traffic before. It helped end the Vietnam War — and reshaped American activism.

  by Hannah Natanson

  Thousands of protesters against the Vietnam War took to the streets of downtown Washington in May 1971 with a single goal: Bring traffic to a total, grinding halt in the nation’s capital.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Climate Change: A Worldwide Catastrophe In The Making

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The United Nations Climate Action Summit revealed how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go avoid the terrible consequences of global warming.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/21/19
  

  How decades of L.A. smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution

  President Trump said he would revoke California’s ability to set its own auto emissions standards, a provision that gave the most populous state significant sway over the car industry.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/23/19
  

  How Understanding the History of the Earth's Climate Can Offer Hope Amid Crisis

  by John Brooke, Michael Bevis and Steve Rissing

  Our planet’s relationship to carbon dioxide has changed drastically before; it can change again. 

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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.