Earth News: More than News of the World
So now, here’s a neither random nor comprehensive compilation of climate justice happenings and musings from the middle of May to the end of June 2016.
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Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
“Building new political, economic and cultural systems and societies that are metabolically restorative, equitable, resilient, just, diverse and democratic. It is a challenge that could bring the different peoples of the world together, to build something better together and make history for the benefit of all people. We cannot afford not to try, nor to fail.”
Is Sustainability only for the Privileged?
Those proposing just sustainability argue that if sustainability only includes or is only for the benefit of privileged people, then logically we don’t have any hope of actually achieving it.
Getting Real About Resilience in South Brooklyn
Turning the Tide is helping public housing residents prepare for the next storm—while also making climate disaster less likely.
Hottest Year Ever Recorded + Collapsing Oil Prices = Broken Fossil Fuel Economy
Two overlapping news stories in the past few weeks must focus our attention on the need to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and to transition our global economy to a more just and resilient system, especially for the world’s poor and vulnerable peoples.
After Paris
There was euphoria that the politicians of the world actually managed to come up with a climate change agreement at the COP21 meeting this month, but how does the deal now look in the cold light of day?
Let’s Define Degrowth before we Dismiss it
The reluctance of degrowth-critics to define growth makes for poor debate.
The problem with REDD+
When people take to the streets and demand climate justice, they expect their elected leaders to step up and address the drivers of what is clearly the largest global crisis humanity has ever faced.
The Paris Agreement: Paper Heroes Widen the Climate Justice Gap
The day after can be a source of regret, or a new beginning. It all depends on how much we can perceive the importance of events in time, in history, in life itself.
Recognizing our rights to live in our forests is part of the solution to climate change
The Sengwer community has been repeatedly evicted by the government’s forest guards from their forests and glades at Embobut, high in the Cherangany Hills in Western Kenya.
COP21: What Paris Can Learn From a Mississippi Co-op
Business-as-usual capitalism may be bracing for a stiff challenge from a group in one of America’s poorest cities.
COP21 Fossil Fuel Addiction: A Guide for Intervention from the Climate Justice Movement
Fossil Fuel Addiction is killing the planet.