The shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corp. have asked the energy giant to publicly disclose how the fight against climate change could affect the company’s bottom line. The initiative was supported by more than 62 percent of shareholders who voted — a big leap from last year, when there was 38 percent support for a similar …
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please. If anyone ought to be able to explain the American Healthcare Act, it should be senior Republican senators. Vox asked them what the bill is meant to do. Their responses are wildly varied and totally lacking in detail. An important and frightening story! http://www.conservativehome.com/highlights/2017/06/outsiders-are-not-always-good-and-governments-are-not-always-bad.html. A book review of the rise of the outsiders, and …
A comprehensive survey of science teachers at middle and high schools across the US, conducted by the journal “Science”, finds that teachers generally devote a paltry 1 to 2 hours to the topic of climate change, and despite the fact 97 per cent of experts agree climate change is mainly human-caused, many teachers still “teach …
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Global wildlife populations are set to fall by more than two-thirds since 1970 by the end of the decade, warns the Living Planet report by WWF and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The assessment of more than 14,000 populations of 3706 species of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles from around the world reveals …
“We seem intent on blinding ourselves, ripping out the smoke detectors even as the house begins to burn”. (Bill McKibben, founder of climate change campaign 350.org, in Wired magazine, February 2017) And this is from Tom Engelhardt, who produces Tomgram: “The the most unforgivable of crime of all , is about to be wrought by …
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