: After years of trying to understand and solve climate change, there are new distractions, the pandemic being only the most existential. The economy, race relations, immigration, our divided country, gun violence, and more all add weight and gloom. But hanging over Earth like an increasingly sodden, ominous cloak of misery is the unrelenting warming of the atmosphere.
But Phil s not a guy to wallow in despair. He and local activist John Herold co-founded the Climate Emergency Poetry series, and last Sunday s event featured student poets from local high schools and universities.
Sometimes a dose of young people s optimism and passion is just what you need.
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On Monday, April 12, the Duluth City Council passed a climate emergency resolution. It states that city government and the city’s sustainability officer will prepare a climate action plan and present that plan to the council in December.
On the same day, Covering Climate Now, a global journalism initiative, launched an 11-day campaign called Living Through the Climate Emergency. Representing more than 450 media partners from around the world including the Guardian, CBS News, New Republic, and the Philadelphia Inquirer the campaign featured human-centered stories on how the climate emergency is seen and felt by ordinary people and how the emergency is playing out in people s lives.
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