by Brett Wilkins One activist had a message for the president: "If you're claiming to be a leader for our climate crisis... then you need to start living up to your word."
by Jessica Corbett "Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity," the U.N. agency says. "While no one is safe from the health impacts of climate change, they are disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable and disadvantaged."
by Jake Johnson "The U.S. must immediately make public and concrete commitments to redistribute excess Covid-19 vaccines globally if it truly wants to end this pandemic."
by Jessica Corbett "Johnson's failure to act has left us with petrol queues, energy companies going bust, offshore workers unemployed for months on end, and a deepening climate crisis."
by Kenny Stancil "Our nation's infrastructure is not built to a standard that protects against the level of flood risk we face today, let alone how those risks will grow over the next 30 years as the climate changes," said one expert.
by Jake Johnson "Biden has consistently fallen short of protecting the water that sustains all life on Mother Earth and continuously failed to honor our treaties."
by Dean Baker, Arjun Jayadev We should be looking to share technology as widely as possible, not locking it up behind patent monopolies and other protections.
by Miriam Miranda Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in our homes. It’s Washington that's making it difficult.
by Ajamu Baraka These social reforms are meant to address some of the more glaring social contradictions produced by four decades of neoliberal policies, but with the objective to strengthen capitalism and preempt radicalism.
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