Stop playing politics with our future. Take action on climate change, or get out of the way.
The new year has brought a torrent of horror stories about the climate. The oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than was previously thought. It’s still chock-full of plastic and our clean-up attempts are not working. Meanwhile, CO2 emissions globally were at an all-time high in 2018 due to the persistent mantra of economic growth, and to top it all, Monarch butterflies are dangerously close to extinction.
It’s now undeniable, even to the most conservative skeptics of climate change, that we are facing a future which will be marked by more and more disaster. But it seems futile for a…
We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.
Progressive democrat Hiral Tipirneni was defeated in April’s Arizona’s congressional special election. It was a close thing and, according to the press, this is good news for Democrats. Media organizations like CNN and FiveThirtyEight jumped on the results, eager to measure the electoral swing from red to blue. But I don’t want to talk about the numbers. I don’t want to reduce these campaigns and volunteers to a mere ‘data point’. I want to talk about the hundreds of hours spent on each campaign. …
We must embrace our moral obligations to our neighbors, both locally and globally.
Floods have killed over 1,200 Nepal and Bangladesh in a disastrous South Asian monsoon. Meanwhile, Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm ever recorded over the Atlantic Ocean, has destroyed 90% of structures on Barbuda making the nation ‘practically uninhabitable’. Millions of people have been displaced by the effects of climate change, and it’s only time before millions more will need to look towards finding a new home.
With cuts to the EPA, it is up to us to be guardians for the environment
Water is a vital resource which is too easily dismissed as a given. Occasionally we become aware, as water problems surface in the media, that maybe we are taking it for granted. We celebrated World Water in March. The Flint Water Crisis came to a settlement, and we remembered that people in Flint still lack access to clean drinking water. We’ve just heard that long-protested Dakota Access Pipeline is now filled with oil, despite the fact we thought we had stopped it. …
Reflections on how and why I wasted five hours and seventeen dollars tracking the stupid boat. The Hive Hostel, Singapore. 5am-10am
This screenshot cost me seventeen dollars.
Sure, FleetMon offers the most recent information of all the vessel-tracking websites out there, giving the CMA CGM Puccini’s ETA of 14 hours from now. And they must be maritime experts because they really know how to fish-hook their market of anxious boat-watchers with the tantalizing promise of even more up-to-date tracking!
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by Katherine Sylwester and Garth Hughes-Odgers on thepoliticalrev.org
The ongoing protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has generated a great deal of press over the past few months. This Tuesday, November 15th, we, the outraged of the United States will demonstrate our nationwide solidarity with the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposition to this project.
Running from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to southern Illinois, the proposed pipeline would cross beneath the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, as well as part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Opposition…
