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Ways to reduce and prepare for climate change, while conserving peak natural resources and preventing pollution and waste.

How to Talk to a Climate ‘Skeptic’

By Erik Curren | September 10, 2019

We originally published this piece in September of 2010, but because we still get comments from climate science deniers, as a service to our readers, we've just updated it and published it again. -- Editor We've all had the experience: Arguing with somebody who doesn't believe that climate change is real. You know there's no way to win. You'll never convince a real science … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate skeptics, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Oct 2010, United Nations

The Real Reason the Climate Movement Has Failed

By Erik Curren | August 28, 2019

Abolish Oil Now book cover

If you think that climate change is turning out to be worse than anyone had thought, it's not hard to find people who agree with you. Just check out some recent headlines: "Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change" says Scientific American"The Oceans are Warming Faster than Scientists Thought," says CNN"Destruction from Climate Change will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: slavery

To Fight Climate Change, We Need an Apollo Program for Politics, Not Technology

By Erik Curren | July 22, 2019

Apollo 11 blast off

"If we want to tackle climate change, we can," writes Apollo Program historian Charles Fishman. "It can be solved with a moonshot in the sense of rallying Americans to a purpose, to a mission, to something that takes incredible effort. With leadership and clarity of purpose. We just need to be asked." On the 50th anniversary of humanity's first trip to another planet, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Apollo Program

Should we Pay Exxon to Leave Oil in the Ground?

By Erik Curren | July 1, 2019

Slaves receiving news of emancipation in British West Indies

This article is the second in a series that compares today's fight for climate solutions with the successful movement to abolish slavery in the nineteenth century. Read the first installment, "The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism." Recently, Congress considered whether African Americans should receive financial compensation for centuries of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Transition Tagged With: ExxonMobil, Richard Barker, Slave Labor

The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism

By Erik Curren | June 17, 2019

South Carolina Emancipation Day 1863

The planet continues to fry. Yet, America is pumping more fossil fuel than it has in decades. And the U.S. government does nothing to slow the damage. Just the opposite -- Washington is now promoting oil, gas and coal while attacking clean energy. We've fought against climate change for at least thirty years. Yet, it seems that activists have failed to reverse or even slow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Slave Labor

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