Environment
New divestment movement targets fossil fuel giants
September 20, 2013The movement, called Fossil Free, features the motto, "It's wrong to profit from wrecking the climate."
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The real scientific uncertainties about climate change
September 10, 2013The real debates are about whether climate change will be catastrophic within years or within decades, and about whether or not we have already passed crucial environmental tipping points.
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Prolific science fiction writer Frederik Pohl dead at 93
September 4, 2013Author Frederik Pohl, who over decades gained a reputation of being a literate and sophisticated writer of science fiction and a supporter of progressive causes, has died.
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March on Washington’s powerful lessons for the environmental movement
September 4, 2013Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, the environmental movement has both moral and practical aspects. It needs a strategy that unites both inside and outside struggles and goals.
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Taking the long view on fight for freedom
September 4, 2013As one of 250,000 who attended the 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," I had to come to Washington, Aug. 24, to be a part of the 50th anniversary march.
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