Sentences with phrase «climate crisis before»

Common Dreams By Jessica Corbett 6 Feb 2018 Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada's Keystone pipeline in October 2016, called for future actions to address the global climate crisis before he headed to prison, where he is expected to serve at least a year of his three - year sentence.

Not exact matches

At 7 p.m., 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and author Naomi Klein headline the climate change event «Off and On», event examining the the so - called climate «crisis» before outlining a strategy to solve it, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn.

This is why waiting until climate change is «really bad» before taking radical, expansive action to address the crisis is not going to work.

This economic crisis will reinforce those who believe all the demands for certainty before action on climate are simply denial or criminal evasion of responsibility.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

It'll take a whole lot of people getting a whole lot more educated about what's happening with climate crisis, what is happening with clean tech, and what role we each play in the mix before we can get cracking on serious improvements world wide.

The situation we find ourselves in today, with three major crises converging at the same time — foreign energy dependence, climate change and a deep economic recession — is very different from anything we have ever experienced before.

The climate crisis requires that urban governments and their partners embrace these actions at a greater scale and with more urgency than ever before.

Finding real and just solutions to the climate crisis means putting the needs of the Earth and people before the needs of corporations.

However, some rich industrialised countries continue to put the profits of those responsible for the climate crisis, dirty energy companies, before the interests of people, according to Friends of the Earth Europe.

When we brainstormed for the presentation the day before, someone brought up to our attention that we should try to make this presentation as inclusive as possible recognizing that even though we all care about climate change to a certain extent we are not all on the same page when it comes to the UNFCCC and the ongoing multilateral process to tackle the climate crisis.

ICN's series on Exxon's early research into global warming showed that the company was at the forefront of climate change research as early as 1978, long before the general public was aware of the looming crisis.

Perhaps an even better starting point before over-representing any climate crisis and spending many billions of dollars more to solve it will be to decide which of two opposite «factual presentations» deemed to be most dangerous should be exaggerated.

We need to start working now to mitigate the interrelated effects of peak oil, climate change, and the economic crisis, before it is too late.

Before his post at NRG, McBee was running a Washington, D.C., advisory firm for over a decade when the worsening climate crisis, resource depletion, population growth, and urbanization issues compelled him to try to influence the policy process.

As the noisy upward trend in sea level has remained pretty linear for several generations, including the one since Jim declared a climate crisis back when his grandparents are alive, I expect to see the sequel to Storms Of My Great - Grandchildren on the remainder tables long before we see 10 cm of SLR Iterating conjecture is an underwhelming communication strategy in the long run.

«Throughout history humans not only weathered climate crises but deliberately flung ourselves into them as we migrated away from our African homeland into deserts, mountains, floodplains and taiga,» he writes, before embarking on an excursus into the striking cleverness of the Inuit in adapting to a hostile environment.

Back in 2008, the UK's Chief Scientist warned that the food crisis would hit us long before climate change, and the UN has just warned that food prices could rise 45 % in the coming decade.

The plan also relies on a speedy timetable, which assumes that Mr. Obama's administration will issue and begin enacting all such regulations before he leaves office... «The United States» proposal shows that it is ready to lead by example on the climate crisis,» said Jennifer Morgan, an expert on international climate negotiations at the World Resources Institute, a Washington research organization.

The Obama administration and the proponents of «global governance» hope to push through their draconian plans before more Americans awaken to the fact that it is the proposed climate «solutions» we should fear, rather than the non-existent global warming «crisis.»

The current economic climate and the number of law firm layoffs is unprecedented, a crisis the likes of which firms have never before encountered.

With one of Ontario's farm organizations gushing about the splendid opportunities McGuinty's Green Energy Act will provide, and another one wringing its hands about an impending climate change crisis that never did exist, I'm going to speculate that things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better.