climate change deniers
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Meet the Black Woman Who Is the Brains Behind the Green New Deal
Rhiana Gunn-Wright is constantly figuring out how best to engage black people on environmental justice and crafting policy that empowers them against under-investment and structural racism. As she sees it, environmental justice is central to black liberation. But, as Gunn-Wright explained to me, issues like climate change aren’t explained to people in ways that relate…
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This Starving Polar Bear Should Prove to All Climate Change Deniers That They’re Delusional and Disgusting
No, this story doesn’t explicitly have to do with black people—it’s about a white bear in what is supposed to be a visually white area (Canada’s Baffin Island), but it is blacker than black in its bleakness. A recently released video shows a polar bear dragging its poor, emaciated carcass across the tundra (I don’t…
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Y’all’s President Just Put Captain Planet on Suicide Watch and Further Endangered the Entire World
When flooding gives way to the destruction of American coastal cities, when the increased droughts and decreases in annual water lead to fewer crops and greater hunger scares among the poorest, when the day comes that today’s warmest temperatures feel like cool breezes by comparison, and when the widespread political instability as a result of…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Message to Politicians: ‘You Don’t Get to Deny Science’
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a few words for those politicians out there denying science. In a four-minute video, which he says contains “what may be the most important words I have ever spoken,” the astrophysicist calls out politicians for denying science. Tyson partnered with Redglass Pictures to make Science in America and asks people to…