Environmental Issues

Coal power plant

The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need

Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis.

Apr 26, 2017 / Gar Alperovitz, Joe Guinan, and Thomas M. Hanna

Climate protesters

Scientists Are Marching Because Things Are Not Normal Scientists Are Marching Because Things Are Not Normal

The Trump administration threatens the integrity of scientific research and the citizens who depend on it.

Apr 21, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter

As We Approach the Peoples Climate March, Here Are Six Ways to Fight to Save the Planet

As We Approach the Peoples Climate March, Here Are Six Ways to Fight to Save the Planet As We Approach the Peoples Climate March, Here Are Six Ways to Fight to Save the Planet

The stakes are higher than ever before.

Apr 21, 2017 / no-paywall / Brandon Jordan

Yemeni refugees

The World Hasn’t Had This Many People Dying of Starvation and Disease Since World War II The World Hasn’t Had This Many People Dying of Starvation and Disease Since World War II

And the United States is complicit in their death.

Apr 20, 2017 / Michael T. Klare

peoples climate march 2014

Bill McKibben: This Is Our Last Chance to Save the Planet Bill McKibben: This Is Our Last Chance to Save the Planet

Plus, Frances Fitzgerald on evangelicals and Trump, and Andrew Bacevich on our endless war in Afghanistan.

Apr 20, 2017 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

On April 29, We March for the Future

On April 29, We March for the Future On April 29, We March for the Future

We’ll either save or doom the planet during the Trump administration. Don’t sit the Peoples Climate Mobilization out.

Apr 19, 2017 / Feature / Bill McKibben

Drought in Syria displaces millions

The Other Poison Gas Killing Syrians: Carbon Dioxide Emissions The Other Poison Gas Killing Syrians: Carbon Dioxide Emissions

If Trump and his cronies really cared about children killed by noxious gases, they wouldn’t be trying to spew ever more CO2 into the atmosphere.

Apr 18, 2017 / Juan Cole

Murray NIH Tour

Why Slashing the NIH Budget Is Indefensible Why Slashing the NIH Budget Is Indefensible

We can’t afford to defund the vital efforts that could help solve some of our greatest challenges, from cancer to climate change.

Apr 18, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Lituya Bay, Gulf of Alaska

Where Is America’s Next War? Alaska. Where Is America’s Next War? Alaska.

And the enemy is not who you’d expect.

Apr 10, 2017 / Dahr Jamail

Donald Trump

Don’t Let Trump Off the Hook by Saying He’s Incompetent Don’t Let Trump Off the Hook by Saying He’s Incompetent

He never really cared about economic populism in the first place. 

Apr 5, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage

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