BP or Not BP

Occupy.com

Published on Jul 30, 2015

Activist and theater lover Jess Worth was never a fan of BP, but when they took over the Shakespeare Festival, her and a few friends sprung into action on the big stage. 3 years later, it’s time to take on the British Museum.

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Future Sea Level Rise: Top 10 Countries In Danger

The Daily Conversation

Published on Jul 30, 2015

These are the top 10 countries threatened by the 6 meter sea level rise we are almost guaranteed to see in the not-too-distant future, according to the projected pace of global warming and ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica.

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How Do We Dismantle White Supremacy?

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This could be You

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Richard Wolff: Why Oil & Gas Prices are dropping

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Mozart’s Prayer and Global Climate Change

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Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan ‘just plain silly’, says leading expert

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton walks away after answering questions from reporters following a town hall campaign stop in Nashua, New Hampshire. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

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The Democratic frontrunner’s solar proposal has major holes if she hopes to halt global warming. What would a real climate-change candidate look like?

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Hillary Clinton’s pledge on Sunday to support renewable energy and boost subsidies for solar panels was set up as a great unveiling – the Democratic frontrunner’s first public remarks on how her presidency would tackle climate change.

“I personally believe climate change is a challenge of such magnitude and urgency that we need a president who will set ambitious goals,” she said in a video posted to her campaign website.

It wasn’t difficult to draw a sigh of relief from the progressive electorate that has heard only climate change denial – loud and triumphal – from Republican frontrunners. (Ted Cruz proudly announced in May that he had just come from New Hampshire, where there was “ice and snow everywhere”. Trump took up the issue with typical savoir faire on Monday, declining to call climate change by name: “I call it weather.”)

But for many who study climate change, Clinton’s proposal lacked the ambition and sense of urgency appropriate to the scale of the problem.

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Climate change | The Guardian

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COP 21: UN climate change conference | Paris

Latest news and comment on the UN climate change conference in Paris, France

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Migrants: UK is not a “safe haven” says Cameron

euronews (in English)

Published on Jul 30, 2015

*The UK Prime Minister says Britain will not become a “safe haven” for migrants.*

His words come as hundreds gathered at the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel for the third night in a row. #AUSedition Calais migrant crisis: David Cameron vows more deportations http://t.co/tGi14daMwn #Guardian— News, Views, People. (@TheCampaignPage) July 30, 2015

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