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The conventional wisdom on how to talk about climate change? It’s wrong.

Grist

In 2008, she was working in a fire center at the University of California, Berkeley, not long after getting her doctorate there. She collects anecdotes and advice from science communicators who are wrestling with all of the feelings and opinions that climate change, genetically modified foods, and vaccines tend to stir up.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Approximately twenty years after the publication of UNESCO’s Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations towards Future Generations, the need to protect the earth for the future generations has finally received a significant consideration in the field of ethics. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change.

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Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals

GreenBiz

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. This is a longstanding practice for Intel, something the company has done since 2008. One company can’t solve climate change’. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. Corporate Strategy. Technology.

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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

The science of human-caused climate change is unequivocal, but the science of projecting how bad things will get, how quickly, is soaked in uncertainty. Deliberately changing the atmosphere to try to cool down the planet is deeply uncomfortable to think about, and many would prefer that no one did. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. He leaves Exxon and joins the George Marshall Institute , one of the more notorious climate denial groups.

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Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré Staked His Brand on Caring About the Climate. So Why Is His Company Working for Shell?

DeSmogBlog

.” “I believe that when you have the power of making the world a better place by your action, let’s do it”, Yannick Bolloré told Thomas Kolster, an activist advocating for ethical advertising, in a June 2023 video interview about the advertising industry’s role in solving climate change. refinery.

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