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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. However, a handful of forward-looking corporations, conservation organizations and startups recently have accelerated efforts to store carbon in marine systems.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

AGreenLiving

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” You’ve got to have ownership.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.