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Overpopulation and Environmentalism
by Dakota Schee and Varsha Nair You may have heard people say, “we wouldn’t be in a climate crisis if we had fewer people on Earth.” The overpopulation narrative is an…
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John Stossel’s Transformation from Skeptical Libertarian to Polluter Apologist
Authored by Samuel Chernow. Edited by Connor Gibson. Over the years, something has become pretty clear: No amount of evidence will convince John Stossel that we are experiencing a global…
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One year of Fire Drill Fridays
Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s call to act like “our house is on fire” and guided by Naomi Klein’s Green New Deal advocacy, I reached out to Annie Leonard and other…
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Reusables Are Doable!
After months of the plastic industry exploiting fears about COVID-19 to scare people into buying more single-use plastics, Greenpeace just launched a brand new report to highlight reuse and refill…
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Celebrating Indigenous Resistance and Protectors Around the Nation
My peoples are native to the lands that make up present-day Mexico and the border region of Arizona. They are some of the last in North America to maintain…
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Engaging our Sovereignty for Indigenous Liberation
I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around everything that has been happening this year, maybe even the last 20 years. By definition, I’m a Native American male, constantly mistaken…
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Health experts highlight need for reusable PPE
Quotes from global health experts on the mounting concerns around disposable, single-use PPE and how it will impact our long-term health and the environment.
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The plastics industry continues to treat Black and Brown lives as disposable
Black and Brown lives matter. But the racist plastics industry continues to treat them as disposable. The plastics industry has tried hard to repair its tainted image during a pandemic.…
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10 Little-Known Shark Facts
Did you know that July 14 is Shark Awareness Day? Every day, sharks suffer from different threats. Up to 100 million sharks disappear every year, due to destructive fishing by…
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Why I became an environmentalist and why I’m dying of cancer—they’re related
Asarco is Killing Me For the past two years, I have been fighting a battle with terminal liver cancer, which was discovered in May 2018. The kind of disease that…