Now, imagine the conditions that might prevail for hundreds of thousands of people crammed into hastily constructed camps, the targets of a vicious campaign of demonization meant to build support for their detention and deportation. If undocumented immigrants really are, as Trump says, “poisoning the blood of our country,”...
I don’t much care whether they believe something or what their inner motivation is, so long as they follow through with actual laws and spending to do the right thing.
One of the things which made it happen in 2020 was that a ton of people showed up outside the fundraisers of every Democratic candidate, and tried to ask them about climate on their way in or out of the event.
Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light (www.nytimes.com)
Chancellor John Sharp wants natural gas power plants on Texas A&M university land, a potential boondoggle (link.houstonchronicle.com)
Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands (news.mongabay.com)
We're Taking Civil Disobedience to End Fossil Fuels. Will You Join Us? | Asking people to engage in nonviolent direct action isn’t something we do lightly. But it is something we must do. (www.commondreams.org)
UK Vote Means Sunak’s Offshore Oil and Gas Bill to Be Dropped | The legislation, a key part of a Tory push to be ‘pragmatic’ on climate targets, hasn’t finished all its parliamentary stages (www.bloomberg.com)
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These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down. Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry. (www.nytimes.com)
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US to Outline Vision for Carbon Offsets Dogged by Controversy (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Trump’s Taste for Tyranny Finds a Target (www.nytimes.com)
Now, imagine the conditions that might prevail for hundreds of thousands of people crammed into hastily constructed camps, the targets of a vicious campaign of demonization meant to build support for their detention and deportation. If undocumented immigrants really are, as Trump says, “poisoning the blood of our country,”...
Alaskan rivers are turning orange. Climate change could be to blame. Climate change is likely causing dozens of rivers in Alaska to flow orange, and it could be disastrous for the state (wapo.st)
Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
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Life in the Dirt Is Hard. And Climate Change Isn’t Helping. Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according to a new analysis. (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9862575...
‘We’re up for this fight’: UK Labour plans to make climate key focus of election | Leadership now sees environment as core issue for voters and strong dividing line against the Tories (www.theguardian.com)
A Test of Cloud-Brightening Machines Poses No Health Risk, Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)
Kennedy Running Mate’s History: $1 Billion, Cocaine, a Fling With Elon Musk (www.nytimes.com)
Memo to Joe: Fight a Climate Election (billmckibben.substack.com)
Senate Democrats Open Inquiry Into Trump’s $1 Billion Request of Oil Industry: Committees are seeking information from oil executives about a dinner where the former president proposed a quid pro quo (www.nytimes.com)
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