“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” That’s how the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) landmark climate report begins.
This powerful documentary presents an interconnected story of frontline Indigenous individuals in their journeys to achieve physical, spiritual, and cultural healing from generational-colonial trauma through the food sovereignty movement.
Many people look to the federal level for climate policy — but local efforts can be even more effective. A city-level GND provides an opportunity to experiment, implement, and achieve progressive policies at the scale closest to the people.
With the last seven years all ranking as the seven hottest years on record, communities around the globe are feeling the heat now more than ever…and it is becoming dramatically worse. By amplifying heat — the deadliest type of weather — to new extremes, climate change has catapulted the world into an era characterized by scorching temperatures of a dangerous degree. Read more to learn about the world’s latest extreme heat events, how climate change has been exacerbating them, and which populations are being disproportionately affected.
Globalization has been heralded as a way to lift millions around the world out of poverty with the promise of new economic opportunities or Western-style democracy. But there is also a dark side to globalization, and the social and environmental injustices associated with neoliberal globalization are particularly dire.
Despite our associations with science fiction as magical or imagined, it can be a useful framework to think about solutions to climate change — especially as many of the once-far-fetched, semi-apocalyptic predictions about climate change’s worst impacts are coming true before our eyes.
Food sovereignty is defined as the right of all people to healthy, culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable means, as well as the right to construct their own food and agricultural systems.
Two once-in-a-millennium flooding events only a week apart on different sides of the world seem improbable. But climate change is intensifying and making catastrophic floods more common and the impacts more calamitous.
Climate change is an international crisis. Greenhouse gas emissions have no nationalist sympathies and pollution knows no borders — often affecting most those who have contributed the least to global warming.
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