Two once-in-a-millennium flooding events only a week apart on different sides of the world seem improbable. But climate change is intensifying and making catastrophic floods more common and the impacts more calamitous.
Climate change is an international crisis. Greenhouse gas emissions have no nationalist sympathies and pollution knows no borders — often affecting most those who have contributed the least to global warming.
The podcast gives a sobering glimpse into the devastation the heatwave caused, especially in an area unused to such high temperatures.
Building a GND on fair and just principles is crucial to creating policies that work for local communities and bringing about transformative, systemic change.
Debunking False Solutions to Climate Change. Among these majorly corporate-oriented solutions, the report identifies a common theme: people in power tend to conveniently overlook the reality that these very same types of approaches are responsible for the current climate catastrophe in the first place.
“These companies have a long history of violating the law and participating in a venture in Cote D’Ivoire that relies upon child slaves to produce cheap cocoa.” -IRAdvocates
Black farmers have lost billions of dollars in profits from land losses, this unjust theft has become a core driver of poverty and continued socioeconomic suppression of Black America.
NOLA Water Week, which will be held this November, is the most recent iteration of TWC’s five year tradition of engaging community members around water justice through music, art, ceremony and education.
Climate Justice, Y’all!, hosted by Abigail Franks and Mare’shah Malcom, is an interview-style podcast that aims to highlight environmental justice issues in the Southern United States, a region deeply affected by climate change, yet often left out of climate discussions.