Fossil fuels made two centuries of industrial civilization possible. But their continued use is now causing irreversible climate destabilization, threatening the death of tens or hundreds of millions. Since consuming only sixty percent of the already mapped and easily available deposits of coal, oil and gas around the world is an absolute gurantee of climate catastrophe, governments should have been sitting down at Copenhagen to determine which forty, fifty or sixty percent of those available reserves will be left in the ground, and to ban prospecting for more. All the rest, Monbiot points out, was hypocritical nonsense.
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The law is a shaky foundation to rest on, particularly for Black people and other marginalized communities.
Could it be that electability, as applied to Biden, is some form of racial dog whistle?
Will a new wave of activism finally produce a real mass movement against “boundless” militarism?
Although the moms were evicted, their example inspired ground-breaking housing legislation for Oakland, California.
Mississippi’s ability to sabotage Black public higher education is enhanced by the state’s power to choose compliant Negroes as administrators.
