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Jenny Offill on our Climate in Crisis
Why I Write About Climate Change For a long time, I let my best friend worry it for the both of us. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe in it…
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Karen Russell on our Climate in Crisis
The Children of La Medusa The reef extends all the way around the island’s northern coastline, a flamboyant corset. Boned in fuchsia and scarlet and orange, heaving with living jewels.…
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Ada Limón on our Climate in Crisis
Salvage On the top of Mount Pisgah, on the western slope of the Mayacamas, there’s a madrone tree that’s half-burned from the fires, half-alive from nature’s need to propagate. One…
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Kaitlyn Greenidge on our Climate in Crisis
I always thought the world would end by the time I turned 30. It was a mantra that entered my head when I was in first or second grade, when…
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Lauren Groff on our Climate in Crisis
The church of my youth was antique and stern, shot through with light from the great stained-glass windows, its long plaster columns splitting when it reached the vast ceiling into…
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The Green New Deal is a bargain, it’s the climate emergency that’s expensive
A Green New Deal would be a very good investment if we design it right. The alternative — an unchecked climate crisis — would be the real economy and jobs killer.
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Finding Community in Climate Activism
My name is Purva, and I am 16 years old. I have always felt a deep, powerful connection to the environment, and have always loved that my suburban neighborhood is…
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8 reasons why we need to phase out the fossil fuel industry
The industry’s bad behavior doesn’t stop with the carbon pollution that causes climate change. Here are eight reasons why we need to phase out fossil fuels once and for all.…
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Greenpeace Report: Real Climate Leadership
The next president and Congress must adopt policies to phase out domestic fossil fuel production as part of any comprehensive climate policy effort like a Green New Deal. This fossil fuel phase out should occur in tandem with policies to boost renewable energy and ensure a just transition for workers, communities and tribal nations. This…
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Amidst this climate crisis, I found hope from halfway across the world
It was three days into my editorial internship at Bangkok Post, where I was free to write about anything I wished to, be it the city’s wild nightlife scene or…
