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      March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City

      Battling for Hope at the Gates of Hell

      The world has changed in the seven centuries since Dante, but human nature hasn’t.

      Amy Goodman
      Denis Moynihan
      Sep 23, 2023

      “Humanity has opened the gates of hell,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his welcome to world leaders at the first ever UN Climate Ambition Summit, convened during this year’s UN General Assembly. “Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods, sweltering temperatures spawning disease and thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage. Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge.”

      Guterres was likely invoking Dante’s epic medieval poem, The Inferno. In it, Dante describes being led by the Greek poet Virgil through the nine circles of hell after passing through gates bearing the warning, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

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      Dutch Climate Protesters Unyielding In Highway Blockade Over Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Despite Arrests

      The News Media Still Must Do Better to Tell the Most Important Story of Our Time

      Despite living through the hottest summer in history, as well as wildfires, tropical storms, and rapidly warming oceans, the news media continues to be outdone by popular culture when it comes to elevating and explaining the climate crisis.

      Mark Hertsgaard
      Kyle Pope
      Sep 21, 2023

      The news media needs to stop treating climate change as a niche topic—and start treating it as the most important story of our time.

      The climate crisis has become inescapable in much of what we see, hear, and read. Don’t Look Up spent weeks as the most-streamed movie ever on Netflix. Pop star Billie Eilish sings about hills burning in California. At the bookstore, climate fiction has become a genre of its own, while Jeff Goodell’s The Heat Will Kill You First, a harrowing nonfiction account of what life on a warming planet will mean, is entering its second month on the New York Times bestseller list.

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      Climate Activists Demonstrate In Lower Manhattan As NYC Prepares To Host The United Nations General Assembly

      The Climate March, Joe Biden, and AOC’s Dubious Endorsement

      Elected officials should stand against the powerful—not with them—when the powerful are obstructing reforms badly needed by working people and the planet.

      Jeff Cohen
      Sep 19, 2023

      I was one of the tens of thousands of participants at Sunday’s “March to End Fossil Fuels” in New York City, an inspiring protest that was very much powered by the young and people of color, with indigenous activists at the head of the march.

      Besides targeting the fossil fuel industry, the multiracial and multigenerational protest focused on a single individual: Joe Biden.

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