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Jamie Quatro on our Climate in Crisis
Dénaturé Two weeks before Thanksgiving, my friend Alice and I have lunch. Alice immigrated to Quebec from France when she was eighteen, eventually marrying and settling in the U.S. in…
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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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2019: A Landmark Year for Climate Justice
Thanks to you and millions of others, 2019 has been a milestone year in the fight for climate justice. Grassroots power and a growing movement have irrevocably shifted what is…
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Fire Drill Fridays for the Climate with Jane Fonda
We are at a tipping point, and I am all-in for the climate. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, the student strikers, and so many more, I have decided to upend my…
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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…