In reality, the annual environmental conference is glorified tourism under the guise of activism. Nothing occurs in Baku that the U.N. could not conduct online and in video breakout sessions at a tiny fraction of the cost and carbon footprint. The same is true for almost every other U.N....
Researchers probe a conundrum: If the world is warming, why are our winters getting colder? Share this: It’s warming, but not as they thought they knew it. ‘Everybody has lots of ideas, but it doesn’t quite add up.’ Aerosols, undersea volcano, El Niño, … 2023’s record heat...
Rising climate activism Climate activism has increased over the years in response to threats of the global climate crisis. However,with temperatures hitting an all-time highduring the month of July, activists have stepped up their action, targeting the aviation industry. On July 24, 2024, Last G...
Notes This non-linear perspective stands in contrast to Jasanoff (2021), who argues in this issue that youth climate activism is just a reanimation of the “linear notion of the impact of knowledge on action.” Only slightly improved if the more ambitious commitments stated surrounding the COP26...
Gardner CJ, Thierry A, Rowlandson W, Steinberger JK (2021) From Publications to public actions: the role of universities in facilitating academic advocacy and activism in the climate and ecological emergency. Front Sustain2(679019). Garton P (2020) Universities and urban development: The effects ...
It is also dangerous to deflect an asteroid since the errors in predicting the path could turn a what would have been a near miss into a direct hit. I saw these two flaws and an ironic satire of the problem with climate activism and uncertainty denial while pushing “solutions” that could...
It was interesting and encouraging to see Ben Pile and co-panellist Stevianna de Saille chatting amicably afterwards, despite being at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of their views on environmental activism and green NGOs. Thanks to Reiner Grundmann and colleagues for organising a very ...
Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Her work also touches on how these conversations manifest in politics, popular culture, and fandom. Sometimes she's very funny....
One might think that the cognitive dissonance would start to become apparent even to climate change alarmists themselves. Greta Thunberg has switched to pro-Hamas activism (e.g.,protesting against the 20-year-old Eden Golan singing in the Eurovision contest; this reminds me to wonder if there ...
124). For those working to save corals, for example—an effort that merges science with activism to a degree not often seen in scientific endeavor—magical imaginings occur with some frequency, as do enchanting underwater encounters with corals themselves. Similarly, scientists working to bring ...