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      A climate activist holds a sign reading "No economy on a dead planet,"

      400+ Actions to End Fossil Fuels Planned Around the World for Sept. 15-17

      "When we the people use our collective power we can win," said one campaigner.

      Julia Conley
      Sep 11, 2023

      "September 15-17, 2023. Everywhere."

      Those are the dates and location of the international mobilization against fossil fuels set to take place this coming weekend, and the last word is hardly an exaggeration as organizers with the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels report that more than 400 actions, marches, rallies, and other events have already been registered around the world.

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      A fire truck drives through a destroyed Lahaina neighborhood.

      The Climate Crisis Is a War of Terror

      Our wars, barring the use of nuclear weapons, could prove to be next to nothing compared to nature’s war of revenge on humanity.

      Tom Engelhardt
      Sep 11, 2023

      From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers but of their decline and fall. So, normally, there would be nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the aging America of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a classic imperial power distinctly in decline and threatening to split into pieces.

      As it happens, though, there’s something all too new about the 21st-century decline and fall of that other great power of the Cold War era—you know, not the Soviet Union. After all, the present downhill slide of this country is happening on a planet that itself is distinctly in trouble in terms of what’s always passed for a decent human life—and that, believe me, is something new under the sun. In fact, in some fashion, the scenario all of us, each in our own fashion, are now living through may be the least known ever.

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      US Has Faced a Record 23 Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters in 2023

      One expert said the events "affirm what millions of people around the country already know—the climate crisis is a deadly and expensive reality today."

      Jessica Corbett
      Sep 11, 2023

      As a historically hot summer nears its end, U.S. government scientists on Monday announced that the nation endured 23 separate weather and climate disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage from January to August—setting a new annual record with four months of the year left.

      The previous record was set in 2020, with a year-end total of 22. This year's billion-dollar disasters so far include 18 severe storms, two flooding events, one tropical cyclone, one wildfire, and one winter storm. The final figure for 2023 could rise, not only because it's just September, but also because some calculations still need to be finalized, including for Tropical Storm Hilary and a Southern and Midwest drought.

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