Amit RajGlobal Warming What you need to know about the nine climate emergency ‘tipping points’ DAZED - Joe GoodmanWe were told we had 12 years to avert climate catastrophe, but a new report from a team of international climate scientists suggests many of the pivotal tipping points may already be here. A report in
Amit RajGlobal Warming Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’ The Guardian - Damian CarringtonThe world may already have crossed a series of climate tipping points, according to a stark warning from scientists. This risk is “an existential threat to civilisation”, they say, meaning “we are in state
Amit Raj Climate Change Is Forcing Earth Toward a 'Hothouse' Point of No Return globalcitizen.org - Joe McCarthy, and Erica Sanchez Why Global Citizens Should CareAs global temperatures continue to rise, climate feedback loops are accelerating environmental changes. The United …
Amit RajLiberal View Energy Companies Undertook the Greatest Scam in History truthout.org - britney It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it …
Amit Raj Devotees Stand Knee-Deep In Toxic Foam In Delhi's Yamuna For Chhath Puja NDTV - Shylaja Varma Delhi pollution: The devotees - braving the hazardous pollution and rain - were seen almost knee-deep in the Yamuna river froth that looks like …
Amit Raj 2,000 would-be Greta Thunbergs: London summit unites world's environment prodigies The Guardian - Amelia HillHundreds of precocious teens and 20somethings from 190 nations descend on UK capital for One Young World The world’s largest global forum for young leaders will open on Tuesday, as more than 2,000 young
Amit Raj The devastating environmental impact of technological progress Wired UK - Amit Katwala For decades, David Maisel has been photographing places where humans are changing the environment so dramatically that the impact can be seen from …
Amit Raj Qatar Is Now Air Conditioning Outdoor Spaces to Battle 'Unbearable' Heat ScienceAlert - KRISTIN HOUSER It's hot in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. Like, really hot. On summer nights, temperatures rarely dip below 32 degrees Celsius (that's 90 …
Amit Raj Exxon’s ‘Excellent Scientists’ Knew Back in 1982 Exactly How Bad Climate Change Would Be Now VICE - Alex LubbenA former Exxon scientist just testified before Congress that, not only did Exxon know that the fossil fuels it was selling would torch the world, the company knew back in 1982 exactly how bad climate would
Amit Raj A $36 Million Mistake: Why India Must Walk Out Of The Kartarpur Corridor Project swarajyamag.com - Tushar Gupta At a $20 ‘jizyah’ masquerading as ‘pilgrim fee’ on 5,000 travellers every day, Pakistan stands to make millions of dollars per annum from the common …
Amit Raj Qatar Is Air-Conditioning the Outdoors Because of Climate Change GQ - Condé NastThe resource-rich nation is trying to engineer its way out of the most disastrous effects of global warming. One common-sense practice for enjoying air conditioning is to keep windows and doors closed,
Amit RajFossil Fuels Top investment banks provide billions to expand fossil fuel industry The Guardian - Patrick GreenfieldExclusive: analysis reveals lenders provided $700bn to expand sector since Paris climate pact The world’s largest investment banks have provided more than $700bn of financing for the fossil fuel companies
Amit Raj Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions The Guardian - Matthew Taylor and Jonathan WattsThe Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions
Amit RajChina The Green New Deal: Jeremy Rifkin And The Coming Collapse Forbes - Daniel ArayaA seismic shift is under way. According to author and futurist, Jeremy Rifkin (The Third Industrial Revolution, The Zero Marginal Cost Society), we are in the final phases of the fossil fuel era. In his
Amit Raj Extinction Rebellion has won the first battle – now it must win the war The Guardian - Leo BarasiAs protesters take to the streets again this week, the challenge is to force ‘green’ politicians into concrete proposals Extinction Rebellion seems to have cracked using protests to transform public debate.
Amit RajLong-form Journalism Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born? The Guardian - Astra TaylorWhat if climate breakdown is a violation of the rights of those yet to be born? Finally, this urgent question seems to be getting the attention it deserves. Last month an astonishing 7 million people nearly
Amit Raj Mysterious 'pocket' of underwater gas could be a huge energy resource or a 'ticking time bomb' Fox News - Chris CiacciaResearchers have discovered an enormous "pocket" of gas trapped underwater that could either be an enormous untapped natural resource or a potential "ticking time bomb" of greenhouse gas emissions. The
Amit Raj The U.N. Just Confirmed That The Ocean Is Screwed Mashable - Mark KaufmanThe seas, which hold some 332,519,000 cubic miles of water, are warming, rising, acidifying, and losing oxygen. And a new comprehensive U.N. climate special report, released Wednesday, presents an encyclopedic
Amit Raj The Himalayas Are Simultaneously Burning and Flooding: What Are We Even Doing? VICE - Avinash TewariThis article is part of a wider initiative by VICE looking at the state of the environment around the globe. In Asia-Pacific, each VICE office is examining the main concerns from their territory, in an
Amit RajBooks Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ The Guardian - Jonathan WattsThe growth of information is not just a flood or an explosion. Those adjectives are inadequate. We are buried under information. It’s not doing anyone any good Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor
Amit Raj The Climate Is At a Tipping Point. We Need Stories From the Front Lines VICE - Natasha GrzincicClimate change and pollution discriminate. Here’s what that looks like: Black and Hispanic Americans breathe in the country’s most toxic air. Low-income communities are being forcibly relocated by coastal
Amit Raj Australia prepares for ‘Day Zero’ – the day the water runs out France 24 - Nicole TRIANDay Zero is pending in at least a dozen Australian country towns stretching from the northern state of Queensland – known for its sprawling banana plantations and tropical heatwaves – to the state of South
Amit RajLiberal View The climate crisis explained in 10 charts The Guardian - Damian Carrington and Cath LevettThe level of CO2 has been rising since the industrial revolution and is now at its highest for about 4 million years. The rate of the rise is even more striking – the fastest for 66m years – with scientists
Amit Raj We Visited the Mumbai Neighbourhood so Polluted It's Been Declared Unfit for Human Habitation VICE - Pallavi PundirThis article is part of a wider initiative by VICE looking at the state of the environment around the globe. In Asia-Pacific, each VICE office is examining the main concerns from their territory, in an
Amit Raj Experts warn that Ireland is heading for 'climate change apocalypse' by 2050 irishmirror.ie - Emma McMenamy Ireland is heading for a climate change apocalypse come 2050 if we don’t implement massive changes, experts have warned. We face catastrophic shifts …
Amit Raj Destruction of India's Western Ghats causing devastating floods Quartz - Gayathri D NaikFloods are now an annual nightmare in many parts of southern and western India. Valleys in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala that weren’t considered flood-prone until recently are at risk.
Amit Raj Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They'll Go VICE - Izzie RamirezIndigenous people and people of color are disproportionately affected by our global climate crisis. But in the mainstream green movement and in the media, they are often forgotten or excluded. This is
Amit RajScience Opinion: Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile NPR - Scott SimonIt takes only a few paragraphs in Genesis for the Earth to take shape, sprout with life, and then human beings. Of course, that development actually took millions of years. But this week, as the world
Amit RajClimate Change Yang hits the ball out of the park CNNAndrew Yang just hit the ball out of the park. He moved the debate right where it needs to be: into the economic and politics of climate change. In a few short minutes, he raised three crucial points economists
