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When “creatives” turn destructive: image-makers and the climate crisis
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When “creatives” turn destructive: image-makers and the climate crisis

If money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns, then P.R. campaigns and snappy catchphrases are the kindling.
McKibben: The gaslighting that helps America avoid climate action.
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McKibben: The gaslighting that helps America avoid climate action.

The U.S. wasted the past decade on a strategy that reduced its carbon emissions but had no net effect on its total emissions of greenhouse gases.
Don’t burn trees to fight climate change - let them grow
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Don’t burn trees to fight climate change - let them grow

Countries and public utilities around the world are trying to reduce carbon emissions by burning wood pellets for fuel instead of coal, but recent studies have shown that the practice will have disastrous effects.
Bill McKibben: The hard lessons of Dianne Feinstein’s encounter with the young Green New Deal activists
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Bill McKibben: The hard lessons of Dianne Feinstein’s encounter with the young Green New Deal activists

In an exchange that went viral, the senator from California demonstrated why climate change exemplifies an issue on which older people should listen to the young.
Are evangelical leaders saving Scott Pruitt’s job?
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Are evangelical leaders saving Scott Pruitt’s job?

The E.P.A. administrator has kept his position amid ethics scandals partly thanks to his evangelical Christianity, which pleases an influential part of the President’s constituency.
Amy Davidson Sorkin: The new estimate of deaths in Puerto Rico reflects a broader and shameful neglect
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Amy Davidson Sorkin: The new estimate of deaths in Puerto Rico reflects a broader and shameful neglect

The disdain that Trump has expressed for Puerto Rico, in the wake of Hurricane Maria, is one of the reasons why a new report on the storm’s death toll is so crucial.
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Bill McKibben: How Justin Trudeau and Jerry Brown can help save the Great Barrier Reef
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Bill McKibben: How Justin Trudeau and Jerry Brown can help save the Great Barrier Reef

Many world leaders are willing to talk about reducing emissions by cutting demand for energy, but reducing the supply of fossil fuel is another issue.
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