The dearth of Black researchers in the geosciences, which includes climatology, not only creates an exclusionary environment that isolates Black people within the field, but leads to inferior outcomes, Bloomberg reports. The self-perpetuating cycle of racial and socioeconomic exclusivity means those at the top of climate science academia have limited … [continued]
Courtesy of NRDC. By Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins & Deron Lovaas & Kabir Green The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee passed the Surface Transportation Reauthorization today, taking a step forward toward a comprehensive infrastructure package. However, this is the first step in a marathon of committee markups and floor action, and the bill needs to … [continued]
A Trump win would be a loss for America, and not just for our environment. America has become a world leader, and was solidly so in the 20th century, but today, it has already taken several steps backward.
The coronavirus bailout has given big polluter Marathon Petroleum a free pass to make Detroit residents sick.
“I can’t breathe” is foremost the cry of suffering and dying Black people who have been killed by police, and the rallying call of a movement to bring systematic change in criminal justice. Rightfully so — securing African American communities from police violence is vital, and the movement has extraordinary momentum and is scoring major successes. But, for environmentalists, “I can’t breathe” has a deep resonance, too.
Greta Thunberg just ripped off the bandaid of illusion that many have blinded themselves with in hopes that they can pretend all is well and will be well. The idea of climate change strikes fear into the heart of many and we react to fear in many different ways. Some, like Greta Thunberg, take it head-on and puts it right there in your face while demanding that you drop everything and solve it — or we die.
We need a mass movement of people from different backgrounds working together in unity, calling for a complete change to the social and economic system which drives us to destroy our environment, and to be in conflict with each other.
The New York Times has described the Tesla factory in Fremont as a hotbed of racism, but its story misses the point completely.
When your fellow climate change ‘skeptics’ are tiki-torch Nazis, it must be hard to accept that they are rational about everything else except that.
