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Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 2
Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 2. Continue reading
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Tagged anti-abortion, Charles Denby, Ciudad Juárez, climate change, clinic escorts, criminal injustice system, Elie Wiesel, environment, Escuelita Zapatista, femicido, feminicido, feminism, fossil fuels, global warming, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, labor, Nuclear power, patriarchy, Pelican Bay State Prison, philosophy, Primo Levi, prison industrial complex, prisoners, sexism, Walter Benjamin, women's liberation, workers, Yeyetzi Cardiel, Zapatistas
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Tour the world’s most polluted places
Few people relish pollution tourism and fewer still can so appropriately express their disgust and delight as Andrew Blackwell in “Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places.” Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Blackwell, Chernobyl disaster, China, ecology, environmental justice, environmental racism, environmentalism, fossil fuels, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, India, Native Americans, nature, Pripyat, Texas, Ukraine, Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places, Yellowstone
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Movements confront climate change
Occupations of planned fracking sites in Canada and Romania showed the intensification of struggles against the damage fossil fuel exploitation is inflicting. The urgency of stopping the headlong rush to extract and burn fossil fuel was underscored by the latest comprehensive report from the International Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Canada, capitalism, carbon budget, Chevron, China, climate change, climate justice movement, coal, Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nation, environment, fossil fuels, Fox News, fracking, Global Frackdown, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, James Hansen, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, New Brunswick, Pungesti, Rexton New Brunswick, Saudi Arabia, tar sands
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Arctic ice in retreat
From the March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: World in View by Gerry Emmett Arctic ice in retreat The National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA indicate that the extent of Arctic sea ice this January was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Artur Chilingarov, Canada, capitalism, Chelyabinsk, Chernobyl, climate change, Denmark, development, fossil fuels, fracking, global warming, Greenland, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Norway, oil drilling, Oil sands, Polar ice packs, Russia, Soviet Union, tar sands, United States, Vladimir Putin
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Tar sands pipeline vs. human future
Check out the pdf with the whole new November-December issue of News & Letters. For today’s national protest of the Keystone XL pipeline, see “Tar sands pipeline vs. human future,” p. 1. Tar sands pipeline vs. human future The battle … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, Blood Nation, Blood Tribe, Canada, Cardno Entrix, climate change, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Enbridge, energy, environment, fossil fuels, global warming, High Plains, Hillary Clinton campaign, irrigation water, Kalamazoo River, KalamazooRiver, Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL, Obama campaign, Ogallala Aquifer, Oil sands, Ottawa, production for production's sake, Royal Society of Canada, tar sands, Tar Sands Action, TransCanada, U.S. State Department, water pollution, White House
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