climate strike
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Climate Change Memes For Angry And Terrified Teens
As a social editor and the youngest person in Gizmodo’s U.S. team, our writers and editors frequently come to me with questions like “What do The Youth want?” and “What is a VSCO girl?” This has put me in a strange position as teens have yeeted themselves to the forefront of climate activism. On the…
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Amazon’s Climate Plan Is Full Of Gaping Holes
On Friday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he was committing the world’s largest online retailer to meeting the terms of what he christened “The Climate Pledge.” Broadly outlined, signing the pledge, which Bezos hopes others will do as well, commits a company to meeting the emission reduction targets set forth in the Paris Agreement…
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Why Families Were On Climate Strike This Friday
I’ve reported on or otherwise worked in the climate field for 10 years. In that decade, I’ve watched failure after failure at international climate talks, rampant Republican climate denial and climate protests that built to something half-formed, clay tossed on the potter’s wheel but never quite shaped.
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Why We’re Walking Off The Job Tomorrow (And You Should, Too)
Obvious truth: the planet is in the grips of a dire climate crisis. Science tells us that we have a decade ?— at the most ?— before the Earth hits a point of no return: a rise in global temperatures 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. If we don’t prevent that from happening, coastal communities will…