environment
Our Only Home: Mapping a More Socially Just Earth Day
Collective action in this critical moment can set the stage for a truly inclusive environmental movement.
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World on Fire: Like Natural Disasters, Pandemics Reveal How Fragile Our Systems Are
The systems meant to protect us are floundering.
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World on Fire: People Aren’t Bad for the Planet—Capitalism Is
Coronavirus isn’t a “detox” of the Earth; it’s a disruption of the systems powering capitalism.
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World on Fire: You Can Value Healthcare and Climate Change at the Same Time
It’s so easy to see climate change as a separate issue, especially when activists have painted it as such in the past. But we do not live apart from our environment.
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Popaganda: Climate Anxiety, but Make It Fashion
Building a fashion economy where the environment and the workers along the supply chain are treated with respect is possible.
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World on Fire: Fanning the Flames of Climate Change as Australia Burns
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been historically careless when it comes to safeguarding the environment.
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The Personal Will Not Save You: What’s Really at Stake When We Partake in Performative Environmentalism
Sometimes the individual things we do, and how we frame them, are actually harmful, whether they worsen a problem or distract from a larger issue.
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Poison Control: Where the 2020 Candidates Stand on Regulating Pesticide
Women in Latinx-majority agricultural communities are most vulnerable to pesticide exposure because of prolonged exposure in their workplace environment.
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(Mis)measuring Intelligence: Environmental Racism Is Assaulting the Minds of People of Color
Harriet A. Washington argues that intelligence is malleable rather than fixed or inherited, and that it’s possible to solve the problem of poisons and pathogens attacking the nervous systems of people of color.
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Fashion Victims: Can Creativity Survive If the Hustle Never Stops?
It’s not just the fashion industry that’s suffering the effects of late-stage capitalism’s relentless production demands.
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