It's Time to Rethink How We Approach One of the Biggest Issues of Our Time
1 week ago

It's Time to Rethink How We Approach One of the Biggest Issues of Our Time

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In this post-1.5-degree world, it’s clear that we need to go back to the drawing board when it comes to climate action. If you find yourself mired in a system that’s sucking you ever forward toward mass extinction, a good first step would be to comprehensively and entirely opt out of that system. Cancel everything you currently have on auto pay, or at least the things you don’t absolutely need to survive, like subscriptions to household goods, take-out app memberships, and Substack newsletters full of product recommendations. If “do nothing” isn’t a helpful mindset for you, here are some tangible examples of smaller resolutions you might take on: Get your books from the library instead of buying them online, and then donate the money you would have spent back to the author’s Patreon or newsletter.

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UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left ‘to save the world’
8 months, 4 weeks ago

UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left ‘to save the world’

Associated Press  

OXFORD, England — Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations climate agency said. With governments of the world facing a 2025 deadline for …

Will we ever see real climate action?
1 year, 4 months ago

Will we ever see real climate action?

China Daily  

The Dixie Fire pushes through the Genesee Valley on Aug 21, 2021 in Genesee, California. This month has If the developed countries and emerging market economies are struggling to adapt to climate change, we cannot even imagine what the condition of the least-developed and Pacific island countries is like. The world leaders are expected to meet at the 28th United …

Will we ever see real climate action?
1 year, 4 months ago

Will we ever see real climate action?

China Daily  

The Dixie Fire pushes through the Genesee Valley on Aug 21, 2021 in Genesee, California. This month has If the developed countries and emerging market economies are struggling to adapt to climate change, we cannot even imagine what the condition of the least-developed and Pacific island countries is like. The world leaders are expected to meet at the 28th United …

Tactics to strategy - Climate solutions heading the right direction
1 year, 7 months ago

Tactics to strategy - Climate solutions heading the right direction

Hindustan Times  

The Earth has endured scorching heat for 46 years now. Environmental shocks due to global warming continue to impact nature and humanity in unprecedented ways establishing climate change as a ‘defining issue’ of our time. Climate change is not just a crisis, but a ‘crisis multiplier.’ According to data presented at COP 27, if climate change is ignored, it is …

IPL, an opportunity to bat for climate action
1 year, 8 months ago

IPL, an opportunity to bat for climate action

The Hindu  

The 16th edition of the Indian Premier League, March to May 2023, kicked off with a coin toss by captains Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Hardik Pandya, in Ahmedabad, on March 31, and over 20 crore Indians tuned in to catch the excitement. Although international efforts have been made to address the environmental impact of large-scale sports events, including the International …

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action
1 year, 10 months ago

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action

Live Mint  

The fight to battle climate change and global heating has always been one led by narrative. Despite decades of irrefutable scientific work that has shown the extent to which we are skirting with global disaster, the reality of climate change and its reason—our energy dependence on fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas—needed to overcome the denial and obfuscation of …

The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End
2 years ago

The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End

Wired  

A year after COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in November 2021, the number of FTSE 100 companies vowing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 grew by 37 percent to 82 percent. Already, we’re seeing customers voting with their wallets, employees choosing employers based primarily on net zero credentials, and investors making choices about what …

On climate action: books that tell us what is happening and what can be done
2 years, 1 month ago

On climate action: books that tell us what is happening and what can be done

The Hindu  

Climate change is no longer a subject of discussion for scientists alone. The COP27, this year’s most important climate conference underway in Egypt right now, has been described as the make-or-break moment for global action to get the Earth’s rising temperature under control. Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change is Nathaniel Rich’s ground breaking chronicle of …

Editorial: Let’s make 2022 the year we all get angry about climate inaction
3 years ago

Editorial: Let’s make 2022 the year we all get angry about climate inaction

LA Times  

High school students and other youth activists rally in a climate change protest in downtown Los Angeles in September 2019. And we can’t blunt climate change by dressing up another year of insufficient action as an incremental “win.” Opinion Editorial: Glasgow climate summit brought incremental progress. That’s a failure The Glasgow climate summit brought new pledges and other signs of …

Cop26: Compromise in the face of calamity
3 years, 1 month ago

Cop26: Compromise in the face of calamity

The Independent  

This, we were reminded endlessly in the weeks leading up to the UN climate conference in Glasgow, was our last chance. “National leaders are simply not going to experience the worst of climate change unlike the younger people with stronger motivations,” she adds. “Yes, with a step back we can see the compounded risks from climate change across every aspect …

The fate of our planet is hanging in the balance – it’s in all of our interests to act now
3 years, 5 months ago

The fate of our planet is hanging in the balance – it’s in all of our interests to act now

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We’ve already declared a climate emergency, committed to making London zero-carbon by 2030 and developed a climate action plan …

The time to take climate action is now
3 years, 8 months ago

The time to take climate action is now

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY In this pivotal year for humanity, now is the time for bold climate action. The world has a strong framework for action: the Paris Agreement, in which all countries committed to set their own national climate action plans and strengthen them every five years. The new national plans must cut global greenhouse gas pollution by at least …

It's Too Late For Us To Fight Climate Change. Instead, Here's How We'll Spend Our Lives.
4 years, 10 months ago

It's Too Late For Us To Fight Climate Change. Instead, Here's How We'll Spend Our Lives.

Huff Post  

Barry Rueger looking out over the Pacific Ocean on Vancouver Island in Ucluelet, British Columbia. “If the powerful people who could significantly reduce carbon emissions at the stroke of a pen won’t act to save us, are we wasting our time?” My wife and I are at the age when we’re preparing for retirement as much as possible. We’d like …

Climate change adaptation: With little focus on transformation, we’re doing it wrong, review explains
4 years, 10 months ago

Climate change adaptation: With little focus on transformation, we’re doing it wrong, review explains

Firstpost  

Coming together of experts to discuss what could inspire large-scale, collective action to prevent climate catastrophes is necessary. Instead, the coming together of experts to discuss what could inspire large-scale, collective action to prevent climate catastrophes is necessary. In their view, more research should look into the dynamics that would lead people to change entire systems that are currently contributing …

Opinion: Listen to the climate strikers. It’s suicidal to stick your head in the sand next to a rising sea
5 years, 3 months ago

Opinion: Listen to the climate strikers. It’s suicidal to stick your head in the sand next to a rising sea

LA Times  

Today’s global climate strike over humankind’s collective failure to take effective measures to address global warming arises, as do most protests, out of frustration over the status quo. In 2015, the year the world’s nations agreed in Paris to adopt policies to try to limit the rise in global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, Americans …

Experts Say There Are 36 Ways To Halve Global Emissions By 2030
5 years, 3 months ago

Experts Say There Are 36 Ways To Halve Global Emissions By 2030

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Those advocating optimism can find support in a new study, published on Thursday, which says that the world can halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if it concentrates on 36 key solutions, including solar and wind power, electric cars and reduced red meat consumption. The Exponential Climate Action Roadmap, compiled by 55 experts across science, academia, …

Technology won't save us from climate change
5 years, 4 months ago

Technology won't save us from climate change

Salon  

If the Roman Republic understood the conditions that caused climate change, they could have easily put a stop to it. That idea — that an ancient civilization with no electricity and no technological-industrial complex akin to Silicon Valley could solve climate change — might sound sacrilegious to the sophistic entrepreneurs and their journalistic lackeys who invest in these kinds of …

We have less time than you think to jump-start climate action (Opinion)
5 years, 7 months ago

We have less time than you think to jump-start climate action (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Helen Mountford is the vice president for climate and economics at World Resources Institute, which works to identify and advance the structural shifts needed to address climate change. According to an article in the journal Nature, global greenhouse gas emissions must peak no later than next year and rapidly decline thereafter for us to have a good chance …

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