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C. J. Polychroniou argues that all financial and political links to the fossil fuel industry must be severely disrupted if any serious progress is to be made towards building a development-led green economy on a global scale. We live in a strange and dangerous world. By all accounts, the climate crisis threatens to destroy human civilization as we know it unless immediate action is taken to reduce to zero carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. As such, the conditions of rational discourse mandate that climate change would have become by now humanity’s number one priority. ....
Annual Freedman Lecture will examine the transition from a carbon-based economy April 7, 2021 AMHERST, Mass. – Three experts will present different perspectives on how the United States and the world can transition from a carbon-based economy to one that is greenhouse gas emissions neutral when the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences presents “Climate Crisis: Transitioning Away from a Carbon-Based Economy,” the 2021 Freedman Lecture, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. Panelists for the online event include: Jacopo Buongiorno, director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) and director of science and technology for the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. A professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, Buongiorno will discuss new advances made in nuclear energy production as an alternative to carbon-based energy sources in every sector of the economy. ....
U.S. President Joe Biden has much to consider if he wants to go down as one of the greats, but this window of opportunity won’t last long, writes Julian NoiseCat. Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President / Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Last week, United States President Joe Biden travelled to Pittsburgh, Pa. Steel City,” where he launched his campaign two years ago to unveil his infrastructure plan. Dubbed the American Jobs Plan, the proposed legislation follows the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan recently enacted by Congress. The jobs plan would invest well over $2 trillion over the next eight years to create millions of jobs, modernize infrastructure, advance racial justice, compete with a rising China and combat climate change. ....
A Green New Deal Is Actually More Affordable in the Long Term Than Fossil Fuels Protesters gather outside Union Station on March 31, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images for Green New Deal Network By With global warming representing humanity’s greatest existential crisis, reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, as recommended by the 2018 report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), should be one of the U.S.’s most urgent priorities. We need a Green New Deal now. In examining the urgency of this necessity, we must recognize the current state of climate response in this country and around the world. Five years ago, the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted. It was called “historic” because all members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change committed themselves to limiting global warming below 2 and ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2°C) compared to pre ....
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