The first time I met what I have come to not-so-affectionately know as a “doomer dude” was in 2007. I was volunteering with a New York City-based lefty newspaper and still trying to fit my voice into a mold as a “real journalist” (in retrospect, I’m glad I never succeeded)…

We cannot assess the damage without looking at the impact on people of color — It’s been a hot summer. I’m talking Do the Right Thing–type heat. The type of heat where you can’t tell what’s coming next — a thunderstorm or a riot. In times like this, I think about the many, many communities around the country that don’t have clean drinking water. Multiply…

Back in May, The Guardian, one of the world’s leading news outlets, boldly changed its style guides to give preference to “climate crisis” over “climate change.” Governments all over the world are finally declaring “climate emergencies.” Granted these declarations are all too often go no further than the paper they’re…

People of color know all about building movements, courage, and survival — Dear Climate Movement: I’m with you when you say that climate change is the most important issue facing humankind. I’ll even go so far as to say it’s the most important one ever. …

Like my grandfather and his father, I was born in Alabama. I grew up between Birmingham and rural southwest Mississippi — the Miss-Lou, those of you who are familiar. My childhood was punctuated by frequent road trips all over the South — Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas. It has been said…

About two weeks ago, I wrote about my personal journey through climate grief and mourning. The response to that piece, including its subsequent publication in Vox, has been overwhelming to say the very least. Humbling in all truth. …

This week, the world-revered International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a damning report — more like a prognosis — on our impending climate crisis. It’s bleak, y’all. The planet has already warmed by 1 degree Celsius. We’d actually passed that threshold right around the time of the Paris Agreement…

A baby ripped from her mother’s breast. A desperate father resorting to suicide after being separated from his son. A 20-year-old college student—in search of work to pay for her education—shot in the head at the border. If you’re not heartbroken, you’re not paying attention. “No one leaves home unless…

We don’t know how to talk about climate change. Our current attempt is a battlefield of mangled syllables. Agreements and Accords. Degrees and Emissions. Parts Per Billion and Gigatons. Fossil Fuels. Sea Level Rise. El Nino and La Nina. It’s like we’ve boobytrapped our own tongues. …