The 2021 “Largest Survey of Public Opinion on Climate Change” carried out by the United Nations Development Program found that a majority of people across every age group, nationality, economic standing, and education level classify climate change as an emergency. Consequently, people everywhere are turning to their leaders—whether that be governments or the corporations that […]
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Why Science Should Strike: The Real Cost of Intellectual Labor
We often don’t think about why our car gets a certain amount of miles per gallon, or who tells the weatherman what to say on TV or who is actually monitoring the sea level rise and melting ice caps we constantly hear about. And that’s to be expected, just like how we might not consider […]
Climate Change Fatalism: The Nail in the Coffin for a Dying Planet
“After 30 years of intensive climate science research, we have sufficient knowledge about our climate system and how it interacts with atmospheric emissions. But our knowledge about how people respond to climate science has been lagging behind.” – Per Espen Stoknes The planet is dying. Or more accurately, humanity’s chance at long-term survival on the […]
Weathering the Storm: How California Needs to Adapt to Sea Level Rise
The classic postcard image of beautiful wide, sandy beaches in California is under threat by climate change. Climate change is irrevocably changing the California coastline and will soon have a resounding impact on local economies, housing, and quality of life. Clashes between municipal governments and state governments have led to a stalemate over what beach […]
It’s Time to Move On from Fracking
The conversation around fracking has long been present in political circles and is an issue on which even candidates from the same party seldom agree upon. It was a contentious and topical issue in the democratic primary, and we saw its return in both the vice-presidential debate on October 7th and the presidential debate on […]
The Color of Climate Change
The incarcerated Black bodies, once leased from prisons to coal companies, are now buried in the rubble of our mines. The Black children, who look out of their bedroom windows at oil refineries, are ten times more likely to die from lung complications than white children. And yet, in the widely popularized story of climate […]