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The other thing that distinguishes our film from many of the others, is that once you make the connection
between the climate crisis and its root cause, the economic orthodoxy that rules our world, it actually opens the door to a much more hopeful prospect.
Not exact matches
3 interviews looking at the
climate crisis from 3 angles: Medea Benjamin of Code Pink talks about the links
between the peace movement and the
climate justice movement — and how Code Pink started as an Environmental group -
Within that, events caused by war, terrorism, political unrest, racism, sexism, immigration, economic
crisis,
climate change, pollution, epidemics, mental illness, and the tenuous boundaries
between the real and the virtual can be described as ruptures.
In the book I draw the connection
between extreme
climate events and the financial
crisis we have lived through over the last two or three years.
We are living through a
crisis of trust
between the American public and
climate scientists, and we must extend ourselves, as scientists and public servants, to rebuild transparency and trust with the public.
We also have to confront how the mismatch
between climate change and market domination has created barriers within our very selves, making it harder to look at this most pressing of humanitarian
crises with anything more than furtive, terrified glances.
The putative magnitude of the looming
climate crisis made it possible to sweep aside the differences that had troubled the relationship
between institutional science and ecologism in the past such as GM technology and nuclear power.
Why Warmists Hate Debate: Flashback 2007: Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate — NASA & RealClimate.org's Gavin Schmidt appeared so demoralized that he mused that debates equally split
between believers of a
climate «
crisis» and scientific skeptics are probably not «worthwhile» to ever agree to again
In this sense, then, environmentalists campaign for
climate policy precisely in spite of the public's interest, against it, to protect all three parties from their existential
crisis — the yawning chasm
between the political establishment and an indifferent public.
Flashback 2007: Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate — NASA's Gavin Schmidt appeared so demoralized that he mused that debates equally split
between believers of a
climate «
crisis» and scientific skeptics are probably not «worthwhile» to ever agree to again - Schmidt on his teams debate loss: «We were pretty dull.»
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between taking action now, and doing nothing to fight the
climate crisis.
And, in all conversations about Keystone XL, we need to make the connection
between the pipeline and our
climate — something that is so vulnerable amid a
crisis so severe that we can't afford to disrupt it any more.
For 13 Oct 2009 alone, there is a choice
between Dr Rowan Williams says
climate crisis a chance to become human again http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/13/rowan-williams-
climate-
crisis and Wildlife expert claims gorilla dung is critical to containing
climate change http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/13/gorilla-forests-
climate-change-redmond
When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict
between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists,
climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water
crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.
The emergence of the
climate crisis seems sudden only because of a relatively recent discontinuity in the relationship
between human civilization and the planet's ecological system.
The
climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which
between them produced nearly two - thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests.
Divorce mediators, though they acknowledge a power imbalance
between their divorcing clients, claim that power dynamics change during divorce, indeed, that the divorce
crisis itself creates a
climate for change.