environmental justice
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Putin’s War Against Ukraine Is Slaughtering Dolphins in the Black Sea
Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine has destroyed infrastructure and displaced about 5 million people from the country since last spring. The country’s conservationists have also noticed that the war is killing endangered Black Sea dolphins and harbour porpoises. Harbor porpoises and bottlenose dolphins have washed up dead on the Black Sea’s shores in droves since…
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Vatican Calls for a ‘Cultural Revolution’ to Fight Climate Change
The Vatican is once again trying to make climate action a key issue for Catholics, as it launches a program called the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, named after the Pope’s 2015 letter that framed protecting the environmental as a spiritual mandate. The new website calls on Catholics to eat less meat, take public transit and…
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Pope Francis Warns of Eternal Damnation for Screwing This Up
Climate scientists, activists, and academics have used reason, data, and morality to desperately sound the alarm bell around the urgent need to address the climate crisis. For the most part, those pleas have gone unanswered. Now, Pope Francis is offering a sophisticated new alternative: pray and hope for the best.
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The Climate-Safe Houses of the Future
When Brandon Jorgensen picked up the phone, he was in the middle of staging his latest house in Napa, California. “We are getting very very close to, I wouldn’t say fireproofing, but fire-resisting a house,” Jorgensen, an architect, said, speaking from the home’s driveway. He described the 20-centimetre wall of the house he’s building, layered…