On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible, as Polanyi predicted, for our personal impoverishment and the impoverishment of our ecosystem. We remain addicted, courtesy of the oil, gas, and automobile industries and a corporate-controlled govern
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And families forced from their homes are pushed into undesirable parts of the city, moving from poor neighborhoods into even poorer ones; from…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
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Cities may well confront a triple specter of climate change, scarcity of energy and resources, and broken supply lines.