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Why We Must Talk About Climate Change When Things Are on Fire

Enviromental Defense

Smoke from wildfires near Fort McMurray in 2016. In 2023, in the middle of the most devastating fire season in Alberta on record, there was near radio silence on the subject of climate change, and what our political leaders were, or were not doing, to address the calamity. It simply perpetuates the crisis.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Energy transition and social sciences – How can environmental sociology help us expand the understanding of energy transitions?

HumanNature

Therefore, the study and possible solutions of global energy transition should consider biological and natural processes as well as the socio economic and political trade-offs. The political economy of the ‘just transition’. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors.

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UNICEF warns 27 million children at risk from climate fuelled floods

A Greener Life

Together with other climate shocks and political conflicts, floods have caused the projected number of children affected in South Sudan, already facing high levels of food insecurity to surpass the rates seen during the conflict in 2013 and 2016. To date, 1,631 children have been infected with cholera.

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Environmental Rights in State Constitutions

Law Columbia

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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The Art of Affect: Creative Expression as Personal Resistance and Resilience

HumanNature

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1).

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?