“Better and richer strategies [for addressing climate crisis] require a different way of thinking and knowing as well as active engagement to reclaim and conserve the spaces where these alternatives can grow and flourish.”
Analysis
Carbon Brief: U.S. Responsible for a Fifth of Global Climate Damage to Date
As the world moves toward its 26th UN Climate Change Conference, and deadlines for ending climate pollution grow nearer, a focus on historical debt is growing. Simon Evans | Carbon Brief Historical responsibility for climate change is at the heart of debates over climate justice. History matters because the cumulative […]
Research Roundup: How Listening to Place Can Help Dismantle the Colonial Climate Crisis
eports back from this year’s ASLE conference, highlighting the work of First Nations ‘fish philosopher’ Zoe S. Todd and geographer/sound artist AM Kanngeiser.
IPCC Wake-Up Call: Global Emissions Must Peak by 2025
Earth could exceed 1.5°C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement, according to a landmark report by the world’s most senior climate scientists.
Honor All Life: Make Ecocide an International Crime
To stop the destruction of life on this planet, international criminal codes must expand beyond human-focused war crimes and genocide to include ecocide—recognizing non-human life has inherent value. Heather Alberro & Luigi Daniele A movement of activists and legal scholars is seeking to make “ecocide” an international crime within the […]
The Palestinian Environment Under Israeli Colonization
The Israeli occupation of Palestine has meant not only a human rights crisis but an “environmental Nakba”: destruction of waterways, collapse of biodiversity, rise of toxic pollution, and unjust access to water. But grassroots movements for environmental justice are working to overcome the ‘causalities of the colonial occupation’ in Palestine […]
To Help Stop the Age of Extinction, Give Nature a New Pronoun
For Indigenous scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer, Western grammatical norms of using “it” to refer to more-than-human relatives absolve settler cultures of moral responsibility for exploiting and dominating nature. Here’s what we can say instead, drawn from Kimmerer’s native Anishinaabe. Robin Wall Kimmerer Singing whales, talking trees, dancing bees, birds who […]
Media struggles with mixed climate signals during Winter Storm Uri
This week, a blast of Arctic air has engulfed much of the central US, bringing freezing conditions and record low temperatures to many states. Texas, in particular, has been badly affected, with grid operators hit by power outages and struggling to provide electricity to millions of residents. The events have […]