This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Climate Week this year coincides with clear skies in Washington state for the first time in almost two weeks. In just a few days in early September, Washington state saw enough acres …
Read More »Big Oil Kills Carbon Initiative in Washington State
Last night in Washington state, Big Oil bought another election and pushed the world a little deeper into climate chaos. What else is new? Big Oil’s victory came on Initiative 1631, which sought to put a small fee on carbon pollution in the state. It lost by a significant margin, …
Read More »Bill McKibben: Winning Slowly Is the Same as Losing
If we don’t win very quickly on climate change, then we will never win. That’s the core truth about global warming. It’s what makes it different from every other problem our political systems have faced. I wrote the first book for a general audience about climate change in 1989 – …
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