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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate. Excerpted from " Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change " by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press. He does not view climate change as mild and manageable.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. Since the Industrial Revolution, climate change has warmed the globe by 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

AGreenLiving

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate Barbara Freese Sat, 05/16/2020 – 14:20 Excerpted from ” Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change ” by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons.