The Media’s Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short The Media’s Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short
Climate change is a top issue for voters. With the election just six weeks away, the media owes it to the electorate to be talking this emergency.
Sep 23, 2020 / Covering Climate Now / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Climate Apocalypse A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Climate Apocalypse
It’s not complicated—four more years of Trump will consign us to a hell on Earth of a sort still only faintly imaginable today.
Sep 23, 2020 / Tom Engelhardt
Putting the Existential Threat of Climate Change Front and Center Putting the Existential Threat of Climate Change Front and Center
Until recently, the US mainstream media featured more climate silence than climate science.
Sep 22, 2020 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do
Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe.
Sep 22, 2020 / Covering Climate Now / Bill McKibben
In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem. In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem.
The choice we face in responding to the climate crisis is between a just transition—and just a transition.
Sep 22, 2020 / Feature / Daniel Judt
First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror
Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented.
Sep 22, 2020 / Feature / Sonia Shah
Burning Truth Burning Truth
Three takes on the fires consuming the USA.
Sep 21, 2020 / OppArt / Ron Hauge, Peter Kuper, and Felipe Galindo
Can the Climate Youth Tip the 2020 Election Against Trump? Can the Climate Youth Tip the 2020 Election Against Trump?
After electing Green New Deal champions in Democratic primaries, Varshini Prakash and the Sunrise Movement have their sights set on defeating Trump and the GOP in Wisconsin, Michig...
Sep 21, 2020 / Covering Climate Now / Mark Hertsgaard
Want the Youth Vote? Prioritize Climate Change Want the Youth Vote? Prioritize Climate Change
Young voters are intimately aware that they will be forced to bear the full effects of climate change—and they’re voting with that in mind.
Sep 21, 2020 / StudentNation / Jacob Wallace
Countdown to Election: 52 Days Countdown to Election: 52 Days
Nothing comic about Trump’s actions.
Sep 19, 2020 / OppArt / R. Sikoryak