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The Fossil Fuel Resistance is in Washington, D.C.
October 11-15, 2021#PeopleVsFossilFuels pic.twitter.com/BsnJsujRFe— Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) (@CJAOurPower) October 11, 2021
On Monday, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, hundreds of people marched to the White House to demand the President and Congress step up efforts to combat climate change. The rally was organized by the Build Back Fossil Free Coalition, who were accompanied by activists from Indigenous groups like the Ponca Nation and the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. Their demands: for President Biden to halt approval of fossil fuel projects and declare a national climate emergency. Many protesters were arrested and issued citations.
“We are going to put our bodies on the line there. If we have to be arrested in order to call attention to what the crisis is and that we need a climate emergency declared, we’ll do that,” said Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal elder and environmental ambassador for the Ponca Nation. “There’s been 500 years of people coming into a territory where all things were interdependent and functioning to a time of crisis, where even Biden’s great-grandchildren won’t survive if something doesn’t change.”
On a statue of former President Andrew Jackson, perhaps most well-known for enacting the forced displacement and murder of thousands of Indigenous people, the words “EXPECT US” were written in red paint, referencing the common anti-pipeline protest chant, “Respect us, or expect us.”
Researchers from the National University of Singapore used data from more than 1,000 twin siblings to evaluate their opinions about environmental policy. They found identical twins were more likely to have similar views on green policy than non-identical twins, suggesting that support for climate action may have a genetic component. Felix Tropf, a professor in […]
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Last month, 50,000 images from 90 countries entered National Geographic’s 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Among the many breathtaking photos of a living planet fighting against climate change, a winner has finally been chosen. French underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta has been awarded Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 for his photo of […]
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By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer According to new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, at least 85% of the global population feels the impacts of human-induced climate change. The study evaluated more than 100,000 studies of events that could be linked to climate change, like crop failures, alongside temperature and precipitation changes caused by carbon emissions. The results […]
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