EarthRights International identified 152 cases in the past 10 years where the fossil fuel industry has used strategic lawsuits against public participation and other judicial harassment tactics in attempts to silence or punish its critics in the US.
I’m a hardcore climate activist. I’ve been one for approximately 20 years (and writing that sure does make me feel old). I’m quite concerned that we are destroying the livability of this planet for human life and countless other species. Furthermore, I’ve got two young girls, and I’m certain their lives are going to be harder than mine due to more drought, agricultural failures, superstorms, more severe fires, climate-related diseases, flooding, and severe migration challenges. I’d like to do what I can to limit the challenges they will face in an increasingly unstable world.
Someone recently shared an interesting Vox article with a powerful title and superb subtitle. Those were:
I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.
Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.
Originally published on The Climate Reality Project In the world’s second-largest economy, the business sector is driving a shift to … [continued]
To show just how diverse the climate movement is today, we’re featuring 10 inspiring activists who don’t fit any mold and come from unexpected places.
Ken Ward, a climate activist who shut down a pipeline in the state of Washington last October, got a hung jury at his criminal trial last week in an example of the power of jury nullification.
