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SOURCE: New York Times
2/21/2021
Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
The Texas blackouts show the political and social dead ends of the market revolution and the fossil fuel economy, says Naomi Klein. Politicians and industries wedded to the status quo are attacking the idea of a "Green New Deal" because it's encouraging people to imagine alternatives.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/17/2021
Texas’s Power Grid Failing Shows why Biden Needs to Go Big on Infrastructure
by Teal Arcadi
The lesson of the Interstate Highway system is that when it comes to large and necessary infrastructure programs, opportunistic partisanship is better than laboriously building a bipartisan coalition.
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SOURCE: LA Progressive
12/2/2020
"A Life on Our Planet" Provides Environmental Hope
by Walter G. Moss
Although the recent Netflix documentary on the global environment describes a grim present, it explains a path forward that is simple (if the political will can be found).
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6/21/2020
Viral Consequences
by David Marks
The indifferent response of the Trump administration to the COVID-19 pandemic and the repressive police response to protests are a signal that we need a political and social transformation to address the ongoing global climate crisis.
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SOURCE: Counterpunch
5/22/2020
Greening the Old New Deal
National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.
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5/24/2020
Honor the Work of Brazil's Villas-Bôas Brothers by Protecting the Amazon's Indigenous
by John Hemming
The Villas-Bôas brothers worked with Brazil's indigenous people to balance the preservation of their Amazonian lands with inclusion in modernizing society. The policies of Jair Bolsonaro are a dire threat to their work, the survival of indigenous peoples, and the planet.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/18/2020
7.7 Million Young People Are Unemployed. We Need a New ‘Tree Army.’
by Collin O'Mara
Today, there’s plenty to do for a revitalized conservation corps that would put young Americans back to work.
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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
4/21/2020
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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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
12/9/19
A proposed EPA rule prioritizes industry profit over people’s lives
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Limiting access to peer-reviewed science undermines the agency’s effectiveness.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg News
September 20, 2019
History is on California's Side in Emissions Imbroglio With Trump
by Andrew M Harris
The Trump administration claims sole power to regulate tailpipe standards. However, professors say most populous state has law, facts on its side.
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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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5/19/19
Anton Chekhov: Environmental Prophet for Our Planet
by Walter G. Moss
Like Netflix's documentary Our Planet, the Russian writer often displayed a deep love of nature in his hundreds of stories and plays.
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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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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: National Security Archive
9/24/18
Presidents from Reagan to Obama ultimately recognized the importance of science and high-level international cooperation in addressing climate change
Contrary to the popular impression documents show that Republican presidents have pushed for the US to be an environmental leader.
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7/15/18
India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis. A Historian Knows How They Got There.
by Harini Nagendra
It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).
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SOURCE: The Daily Californian
4-22-18
Berkeley’s Carolyn Merchant explains what ecofeminism is
Merchant, along with various other female academics, is responsible for integrating two concepts — environmentalism and feminism — into a study known as ecofeminism.
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1/4/18
Doing History in the Age of Trump
An interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on the perspective historians offer.
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