Students across the globe to skip school for climate change strike

CBS This Morning

Published on Mar 14, 2019

Students across America are expected to skip class Friday in the first national school strike over climate change. Similar demonstrations have already swept through Europe and Australia. Friday’s protests are planned for more than 130 cities in the U.S. and about 90 countries worldwide. Tony Dokoupil reports.

Teen activist Greta Thunberg on plans for strike against climate change

CBS News

Published on Mar 14, 2019

Students around the world are planning to skip class Friday to protest for action against climate change. Student activist Greta Thunberg joined CBSN to speak about how her activism has inspired others, and her recent Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

Swedish Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Has Been Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize | TIME

TIME

Published on Mar 14, 2019

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work leading a youth campaign to halt climate change.

Greta Thunberg e la candidatura al Nobel pace

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Published on Mar 14, 2019

Greta Thunberg, l’attivista di soli 16 anni, svedese, promotrice delle marce dei giovani per il clima in tutta Europa è stata proposta per il premio Nobel per la pace, da tre parlamentari norvegesi. Il servizio di Nicola Ferrante.

Cyclone Idai: Mozambique braces for ‘worst-case scenario’ storm – BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47576831

People living in one of Mozambique’s largest cities have been warned to expect the “worst-case scenario” as a major cyclone makes landfall.

Cyclone Idai, which is carrying winds of up to 225 km/h (140 mph), is making landfall near the port of Beira.

A storm surge of at least six metres (20 feet) is expected near low-lying Beira, a city of 500,000 people, Météo France said.

Heavy rains have already killed about 100 people in Mozambique and Malawi.

Beira is the fourth largest city in Mozambique and its major port sits on the mouth of the Pungwe river, that runs to Zimbabwe.

Météo France, which monitors French territories in the Indian Ocean, said Idai was “an extremely dangerous tropical cyclone” packing a “life-threatening” storm surge of at least four metres along the coast, and six metres near the mouth of the Pungwe river near Beira.

The surge could be even higher because of high tide, Météo France warned.

The cyclone’s late change of course meant that “the worst case scenario is very likely“, it added.

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Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize – CBBC Newsround

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47574815

16-year-old climate change advocate, Greta Thunberg, has been nominated for one of the world’s most famous awards.

She has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – an award given to someone who has done lots of work to help bring peace to the world.

In the past the honour has been awarded to Malala Yousafzai, civil rights activists Nelson Mandela and Dr Martin Luther King!

Greta tweeted saying she was “honoured” to be nominated.

Slate Academy: The History of American Slavery

 

With Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion
Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

America’s defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you’d taken, learning from acclaimed historians and writers, alongside Slate’s Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion.

This Slate Academy includes:

• A nine episode podcast series
• Archival documents, essays, and bonus podcasts
• Book excerpts highlighting the research of leading scholars of American slavery
• A private Facebook group for thoughtful conversation with your hosts and fellow students

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This episode of the Academy is available free to all Slate readers to preview our inaugural Slate Academy. Enroll now to access all features of the Academy. Visit Slate.com/Academy to learn more.

In episode 2 of The History of American Slavery, a Slate Academy, hosts Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie explore the shape of slavery during the late 18th century. They talk about the heyday of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the birth of the British abolitionist movement. They begin their discussion by remembering the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano, 1745?–1797.

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History of American Slavery: Olaudah Equiano and life aboard a slave ship.

This episode of the Academy is available free to all Slate readers to preview our inaugural Slate Academy. Enroll now to access all features of the Academy. Visit Slate.com/Academy to learn more.

In episode 2 of The History of American Slavery, a Slate Academy, hosts Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie explore the shape of slavery during the late 18th century. They talk about the heyday of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the birth of the British abolitionist movement. They begin their discussion by remembering the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano, 1745?–1797.

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See related full series:

 

• Slate Academy: The History of American Slavery

 

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (World Social Change) : Robert B. Marks

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the wealthiest industrialized countries, and an escape from the environmental constraints of the “biological old regime.” He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the eighteenth century; a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world; and the mounting environmental crisis that defines the modern world.

Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the modern world to the present in an environmental context, the book considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the twenty-first century, and why the changed relationship of humans to the environmental likely will be the hallmark of the modern era—the “Anthopocene.” Once again arguing that the U.S. rise to global hegemon was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment that may in the long run overshadow any political and economic milestones of the past hundred years.

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

https://www.amazon.com/Vermeers-Hat-Seventeenth-Century-Global/dp/1596915994/ref=ecoethicsA/

In this critical darling Vermeer’s captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing–were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.

A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty–but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer’s dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer’s. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer’s works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.