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What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
White nationalists are readying for war against the coming generation of climate migrants.
Read MoreOpEdge: Ignoring the Climate in the Past Has Always Led to Disaster
by Marc Jampole IN A COLD WELCOME, Ohio State historian Sam White reminds us that the 21st century is not the first time that Europeans in North America have ignored the climate and thereby created human disasters. In the century after the second European discovery of the New World by Columbus in 1492, several European nations […]
Read MoreNotes from a Small Planet: From Climate Change to Environmental Disaster
HOW THE MEDIA CAN CHANGE PUBLIC OPINION by Aaron Dorman “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”–Fahrenheit 451 “You see, I bought the red car so I could dismantle it!!!!”–Judge Doom, Who Framed Roger Rabbit IT’S HURRICANE SEASON! But […]
Read MoreFighting Back against Big Oil
by Dusty Sklar It’s common knowledge that big oil is at least in part responsible for the disasters caused by climate change, so it’s fair that they should shoulder some of the burden of the costs it causes. Now, two coastal cities in California, San Francisco and Oakland, have filed lawsuits against ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Conoco […]
Read MoreThe Flood at Mar-a-Lago
A SHORT PLAY by Joel Schechter Scene: Rainy day at Palm Beach, Florida. Water everywhere. Characters: Noah and his ark President of the United States (Trump for now) Ambassadors from Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria Priebus, Chief of Staff Costumes: All characters wear raincoats or carry umbrellas.
Read MoreEARTH to Trump
WHEN IT COMES TO THE ENVIRONMENT, CITIES, STATES, AND PEOPLE ARE IN MOTION An Editorial from our Summer 2017 issue THE UNITED STATES is the oldest constitutional republic in the world (except for the tiny Italian microstate of San Marino). Given that durability, it’s not wishful to believe that the country’s basic political system is strong […]
Read MoreO My America: Save Us, Ivanka!
by Lawrence Bush I STEPPED OUT onto my porch two evenings ago and heard peepers — tree frogs — who make one of the most beguiling and happy sounds of spring in the countryside. My heart sank. They were out a month early, after a week of 72º temperatures in late February. I knew that […]
Read More“Why Were You Not Zusya?”
CORPORATE AND PERSONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY by Rabbi Judy Weiss from the Autumn 2016 issue of Jewish Currents IN A NOVEMBER 2014 CARTOON in the Washington Post, Tom Toles skewered the Republican obstructionist stance on climate change. In a dialogue between a Republican elephant and Toles’ beardless version of Uncle Sam, the elephant argues, “We shouldn’t […]
Read MoreTisha b’Av in the Age of Climate Change
BINDING OURSELVES TO ONE ANOTHER THROUGH ACTIVISM by Rabbi Judy Weiss from the Summer 2016 issue of Jewish Currents THE FIRST TIME I went to Tisha b’Av morning services, I was surprised by something rather insignificant: According to Ashkenazic custom, Jews don’t wear talleisim (prayer shawls) or tefillin (phylacteries) during the morning Tisha b’Av service. […]
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