We’re stepping into a new year in the climate fight. The turning of the year is a milestone both for stoking our resolve, and for noting how deep we now are into climate overtime. In 2018 there was a lot of talk of diminishing odds and despair, and not without reason. So if, like me,…
Month: November 2019
Matt Lauer’s Ex-Wife Says She Supports Him “One Hundred Percent” in Wake of Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Click Here: All Blacks Rugby Jersey “I was shocked because he’s been such a stalwart at that network and in that job,” television producer Alspaugh told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday. “He’s been the best person that’s ever held that job and I couldn’t imagine that anything that he would have done—that would have been so…
Vowing Gun Reforms and Calling for 'Love for All Muslim Communities,' New Zealand PM Praised for Leadership After Mosque Attacks
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern awed American gun control advocates Friday night when she announced that her administration would promptly pursue changes to her country’s gun laws following the shooting deaths of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch—in stark contrast to the response of the U.S. government to similar attacks. Ardern addressed New…
Tracee Ellis Ross Uses a Children’s Book to Explain Sexual Harassment
Tracee Ellis Ross is the latest star in Hollywood to speak up about sexual harassment, but not as an accuser or a victim. Instead, she wants to set the record straight on what is and is not considered sexual misconduct. In a segment for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the 45-year-old actress explains that it isn’t “a…
Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Even in corporate media, you will occasionally see references to the United States as an “oligarchy.” That is the judgment of former President Jimmy Carter, of peer-reviewed academic studies, and even opinion pieces in our most prestigious media (e.g., Washington Post, 4/8/14; New Yorker, 4/18/14). Indeed, Paul Krugman has been saying it in the New…
Birthday Boy Ashton Kutcher Has the Cutest Things to Say About His Family
We’ve rounded up every time Kutcher had the sweetest things to say about Kunis and their little clan. 1. “You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and realize you didn’t know. It’s infinitely rewarding.” –on The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2. “Staying home the first couple…
Example of 'Unknown Unknowns,' Study Detailing 'Almost Instant Mortality of Corals' Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood
Click:metal cnc machining As the human-caused climate crisis drives up ocean temperatures at a rate that has scientists worried, a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized. “Climate scientists talk about ‘unknown unknowns’—impacts that we haven’t anticipated from…
10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined
1. The US military protects Big Oil and other extractive industries. The US military has often been used to ensure that US companies have access to extractive industry materials, particularly oil, around the world.The 1991 Gulf War against Iraq was a blatant example of war for oil; today the US military support for Saudi Arabia…
New Study Warns India-Pakistan Nuclear War Could Kill 125 Million Immediately—Then Spark Global Mass Starvation
The U.S. and other nuclear powers should rapidly stop nuclear proliferation, researchers at Rutgers University said Wednesday as they released a study showing that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill 125 million people instantly before causing global mass starvation. “When nuclear weapons come into play, what happens in South Asia won’t stay in…
Diane Keaton Is Continuing to Stand by Woody Allen Despite Sexual Assault Allegations
Diane Keaton is still supporting her frequent collaborator Woody Allen. The actress took to her Twitter to send a message of support to the actor and director, who often used Keaton as his muse through their decades of working together, including most famously on Annie Hall. “Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe…