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"The health harms of climate change are growing faster than the world's response to them, and in many cases even accelerating."

A world with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in power is not the world that anyone should want to be on at a time when humanity has discovered at least two ways of doing this planet in.

"We are supercharging the ocean and the atmosphere," said one WMO leader. "That means that heatwaves, tropical cyclones, and rainstorms are intensifying faster than our historical baselines prepared us for."

“The ultra-rich are setting the planet on fire and then charging the rest of us for the extinguishers."

Making it easier to build data centers and fossil fuel infrastructure benefits no one except Big Tech and Big Oil. A bipartisan group of Senators wants to do it anyway.

Congress and the federal government have so far refused to meaningfully regulate the data centers cropping up across the country. So for now, state and local measures like the five-year moratorium passed in Lochbuie, Colorado represent the best tool to protect our communities.

Two landmark reports have been published this year on not only the "what" and "why" of the degrowth imperative, but the "how."

If the opposition to AI data centers helps Democrats regain control of at least one chamber of Congress, could this not-in-my-backyard movement morph into a new national crusade to protect the environment?

In democratic societies elections should always be important, but they certainly shouldn’t be determining questions of planetary survival. Unfortunately, they are.

Americans are already paying an enormous price for climate disasters. They deserve to know which candidates are prepared to confront the crisis and which continue to obstruct meaningful action.

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