Tag: Environmental Justice
I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors
“The world does not end at 2 degrees C,” Bill Gates told the British podcast The Rest Is Politics in an episode that aired in January. Gates, one of the strongest and earliest supporters of tech as a tool to address the climate crisis, has spoken before about his belief that we’ll blow past 1.5 degrees—but his more recent assertions that 2 degrees C is unavoidable took many by surprise.
“There’s no stopping us passing 2C,” he said. “In temperate … Read more
The Great Salt Lake Is Becoming Too Salty to Support Life
Salt Lake City, Utah—Antelope Island, the largest island in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, has not been an island for many years; indeed, its southern shore now extends into Salt Lake City. An eight-foot fence has been built to keep the island’s bison from roaming into the nearby airport and to protect its herd of bighorn sheep from cattle diseases. As the lake shrinks, Farmington Bay, to the island’s east, is rapidly disappearing too, so that … Read more
Mexico’s Tren Maya: Megaproject of Death—or Hope?
Police Are Spreading Authoritarianism Under the Guise of Counterterrorism
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Green Rationales for Harsher Immigration Policies Are Nothing New
The Planet Will Warm Past 1.5°C. What Now?
The Climate Movement Wanted More Than the IRA. Now What?
Since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August, the first major climate legislation in U.S. history has been smothered with praise: Journalists and climate experts have suggested that the IRA will “save civilization” and herald “an unstoppable transition.” Rather than punishing companies for their emissions, the law creates numerous financial incentives to encourage the growth of green industries and subsidize eco-friendly consumer purchases such as heat pumps and electric vehicles.
The roughly $370 billion that
Does the Climate Bill Throw Environmental Justice Under the Bus?
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation strengthening coverage of the climate story.
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Is the new climate bill as big a deal as they say?
Yes.
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Is it big enough to save us?
No, not by itself.
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Does it throw environmental justice under the bus?
Yes, as usual, but
The Green Transition Must Be Union-Powered
We Need International Cooperation to Fight Climate Change, Not War
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