All Views Articles for 2019-12-03

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
There are 57,000 large dams in the world and more could be on the way. Thus, it is important that GND advocates clarify whether they support building more dams or endorse a moratorium on their construction.(Photo: usacetulsa/flickr/cc) Don Fitz
Dammed Good Questions About the Green New Deal
Here are 10 potential problems with dams.
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"On a day-to-day basis, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and "abnormal" weather. (Photo: U.S. Forest Service) Emily Beament
The Hottest Years
The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the warmest in records dating back to the 19th century.
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It’s too late to turn back the page to the soft, centrist, consensus politics of the era before Trump. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Ruth Conniff
Middle America: The Danger for Democrats
To insist that not coming on too strong is what’s needed in 2020 is to miss the whole lesson of the rightwing populist rise of Trump.
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The result of this corporate omnipresence is clear—the negotiations move at a snail’s pace and more often than not reflect the interests of global corporations, not people and the planet. (Photo: UN Climate Change/Twitter) Erika González, Sriram Madhusoodanan
Meet the Big Polluters Sponsoring COP25
Whether it’s subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel industry continues to hamper our policymaking to face the ecological and climate crisis.
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RESIST Banner 1999 (Photo: Dang Ngo: ZUMA Press) Jeff Crosby
WTO Shutdown: The Kids Are Alright
This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.
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By the time the campaign was over, Raqqa, like a number of other Syrian and Iraqi cities, was in almost complete ruins (Photo: Youtube Screenshot/Gabriel Chaim) Arnold R. Isaacs
Moral Injury and America’s Endless Conflicts
A legacy of a new kind of war.
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Danny Sjursen
Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction
Collective delusion—reflected in the populist, rightward, authoritarian global political wave—might just spell the end of organized human life on this planet.
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