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The most relevant articles on arguably the biggest issue of our time. How we got here, where we‘re headed and what we can do about it. Follow along on Refind to get the most relevant new links picked for you.
9 Best Articles in 2022
Inc.
MIT Published a List of the 9 Megatrends That Will Shape the World in 2030. Here's What…Inc.
2 min read · 2020-02-25 · Climate change, transparency, and populism will be driving the workforce 10 years from now.
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New York Magazine
The Uninhabitable EarthNew York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2019 · Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.
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Guardian Environment
The climate disaster is hereGuardian Environment
1 min read · 2021-10-14 · Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse?
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At 1.5C, about 14% of the world’s population will be hit by severe heatwaves once every five years. with this number jumping to more than a third of the global population at 2C.
Guardian Environment
Capitalism is killing the planetGuardian Environment
~13 min read · 2021-10-30 · Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
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The main cause of your environmental impact is your money. You persuade yourself you’re a green mega-consumer, but you’re just a mega-consumer
The New York Times
How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?The New York Times
2 min read · From 2018 · See how days at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit have changed in your lifetime and how much hotter it could get.
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The New York Times
The Great Climate Migration Has BegunThe New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-07-23 · New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.
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Vox
Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?Vox
~17 min read · 2021-08-03 · The "degrowth" movement to fight the climate crisis offers a romantic, utopian vision. But it’s not a policy agenda.
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It’s a bold, even romantic vision. But there are two problems with it: It doesn’t add up — and it would be nearly impossible to implement.
TIME
Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the YearTIME
20+ min read · From 2019 · The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change
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Eric Holthaus
The era of 'rapid' climate change has begunEric Holthaus
8 min read · 2021-08-09 · Here's what the new IPCC report says, and what it doesn't, about the most important moment of our lives.
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Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
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The Eco-Protesters Who Live in Tunnels
The New Yorker
How the Refrigerator Became an Agent of Climate Catastrophe
The New Yorker
Don't Look Up: the first good movie about climate change
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How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
The Guardian
Watching Don’t Look Up made me see my whole life of campaigning flash before me
The Guardian
Fossil fuel firms among biggest spenders on Google ads that look like search results
Guardian Tech
As carbon removal gains traction, economists imagine a new market to save the planet
NPR's Planet Money
Past seven years hottest on record
BBC Breaking News
‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science
The Conversation
The Great Siberian Thaw
The New Yorker
52 Places for a Changed World
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The Guardian
I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every dayThe Guardian
4 min read · 2021-12-29 · A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis
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Rolling Stone
'The Fuse Has Been Blown,' and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us AllRolling Stone
8 min read · 2021-12-29 · New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog…
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The Conversation
‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of scienceThe Conversation
4 min read · Jan 6th · Just because something isn’t 100% certain doesn’t mean you ignore it, and other lessons from two researchers who study the problem of science denial.
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Aeon+Psyche
Ours is the Waste Age: that’s the key to tranforming the futureAeon+Psyche
~12 min read · Jan 4th · Recognising that waste is central, not peripheral, to everything we design, make and do is key to transforming the future
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Nieman Lab
Just a little too slow: Why journalists struggle to cover climate change » Nieman Journalism LabNieman Lab
4 min read · Jan 6th · The biggest news story of all time doesn’t quite fit our working definition of news, and hence is going remarkably undercovered.
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grist
Code red, glacier blood, megadrought: The defining words of 2021grist
8 min read · 2021-12-20 · Here are the top climate change words and phrases people adopted this year.
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The New York Times
Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head OnThe New York Times
9 min read · 2021-12-28 · Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it…
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TED Talks
Get a better understanding of the science of climate change in just 6 chartsTED Talks
4 min read · 2021-12-26 · From sea level rise to global greenhouse gas emissions, here’s a look at climate science in 6 charts — and why we should still remain hopeful, from atmospheric scientist Betsy Weatherhe…
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in order to better understand the policies and impacts of global warming, it’s useful to understand the science behind it.
The New York Times
52 Places for a Changed WorldThe New York Times
Jan 10th · The 2022 list highlights places around the globe where travelers can be part of the solution.
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Positive News
What went right in 2021: the top 26 good news stories of the yearPositive News
1 min read · 2021-12-26 · Even as the pandemic rumbled on and the climate crisis intensified, there was much good news to report on. Here’s what went right in 2021
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