climate change

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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?

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/31/19
  

  European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

  by Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis

  This new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/31/19
  

  What Green New Dealers can learn from the first New Deal

  by Eric Rauchway

  The hard part of a Green New Deal is not environmental reform. It is social justice.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/28/19
  

  Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change

  by Crystal Eddins

  Marginalized communities of color and nations of the Global South are generally most vulnerable to natural disasters associated with climate change.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  1/6/19
  

  The history of science shows how to change the minds of science deniers

  by Ephrat Livni

  By understanding the history of science, we can “keep the world from falling apart.”