The El Paso Manifesto: Where Racism and Eco-Facism Meet
Just look, as Dissent magazine did in May, at this spring’s European elections. Following the European Green Party’s historic gains, the far-right Alternative for Germany’s youth wing in Berlin urged party leaders to abandon the “difficult to understand statement that mankind does not influence the climate,” an issue that moves “more people than we thought.” In…
Americans Trust Scientists, Until Politics Gets in the Way
sanjeri/Getty This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nothing’s more American than a science-hero—an indomitable, big-brained hasher-out of ideas that change the world, that make the impossible possible. At least since Ben Franklin sat with the founders, and certainly since Vannevar Bush explicitly connected the US’ future to federal funding…
There’s a ‘Toxic Fallout’ From the Notre-Dame Disaster: Lead Contamination
A kid looks at the Notre Dame cathedral two months after the massive fire which ravaged the roof of the famous monument.Chesnot/Getty This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Three months after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, reports of a new, previously unheeded threat to local residents have…
Communities in the American Southwest Were Exposed to Nuclear Fallout. Can They Get Compensated?
Universal History Archive/Getty This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The atomic bomb was born in the desert. In the early hours of July 16, 1945, after a spate of bad weather, a 20-kiloton plutonium-based nuke referred to as “the gadget” detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Firsthand testimonies…
Cory Booker Is Right: Rejoining the Paris Agreement Is Not a Climate Plan
John Nowak/CNN via Zuma Has Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) been reading Mother Jones? Because the point he made, during the second round of presidential debates debate on Wednesday night about the significance of the Paris climate accord probably sounded familiar to anyone who has followed our attempts to contextualize the much-lauded agreement. “Nobody should get applause for rejoining the…
The Democrats Finally Debated the Green New Deal
CNN, Zuma The Democratic candidates sounded the alarm on climate change in the first presidential debates, but the discussion in June was so limited that they never really got into the details of how they’d solve the crisis. It was a different story this time around. It took more than an hour to get there…