FedEx FedEx Fails to Deliver on Earnings. And That’s a Bad Sign for the Global EconomyFortune - Kevin Kelleher If shipping giant FedEx is often regarded as a canary in the global economy coal mine, this canary is looking a little peaked. FedEx shares tumbled …
Climate Evangelical leaders are making climate change a religious issueQuartz - Olivia GoldhillWhen evangelical environmentalists talk about climate change, they don’t stick to sea level rise projections and the carbon emissions associated with red meat. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, national organizer spokesperson
TV Netflix's Daybreak trailer mixes teen drama and dystopiaEntertainment Weekly - Devan CogganThe apocalypse can be a dangerous, difficult-to-navigate place. So can high school. The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming series Daybreak combines the two, centering on a group of teenagers in Glendale,
Netflix Daybreak teaser hints fun during the apocalypsenetflixlife.com - Alexandria Ingham Thought the apocalypse would be filled with terror and mayhem? Guess again! Daybreak’s official teaser suggests there’s a lot of fun. The first …
Climate Most American teens are frightened by climate change, poll finds, and about 1 in 4 are taking actionThe Washington Post - Sarah Kaplan and Emily GuskinIn a coastal town in Washington state, climate change has a high school junior worried about the floods that keep deluging his school. A 17-year-old from Texas says global warming scares him so much he
Opinion Margaret Atwood’s Dystopia, and OursThe New York TimesAfter Donald Trump’s election, sales of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood’s canonical 1985 novel of theocratic totalitarianism, spiked, along with other dystopian classics like George Orwell’s “1984.”
Idaho 'I’m not paranoid': These Americans are doing more that just stockpiling food and ammunition. | The Washington PostThe Washington Post - WP BrandStudioDon and Jonna Bradway recently cashed out of the stock market and invested in gold and silver. They have stockpiled food and ammunition in the event of a total economic collapse or some other calamity
U.S. Politics 'Liberty State' Secessionists Peddle Their Christian Separatist Vision To Voterscrooksandliars.com - David Neiwert The people promoting the creation of a “Christianity-based” 51st state carved out of what is currently eastern Washington have begun moving beyond …
News Danes raise millions of euros in first-ever climate telethonDW News - Michaela Cavanagh (with AFP) Individuals and companies alike donated about €2.4 million to plant almost 1 million trees in the Scandinavian country. The fundraising event was …
Climate 'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisisThe Guardian - Naomi KleinHumanity has a once-in-a-century chance to fix an economic model that is failing the majority of people on multiple fronts On a Friday in mid-March, they streamed out of schools in little rivulets, burbling
Climate Naomi Klein: 'We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism'The Guardian - Natalie HanmanThe individual decisions that we make are not going to add up to anything like the kind of scale of change that we need Why are you publishing this book now? I still feel that the way that we talk about
Water The Water Wars Are Herenewrepublic.com - Max Holleran In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles. Everyone remembers the scene in Chinatown when Jack Nicholson almost gets …
Opinion Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is DifferentTIME - Bill McKibbenMcKibben is the author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and a co-founder of 350.org Let’s imagine for a moment that we’ve reached the middle of the century. It’s 2050, and we have
Climate How Climate Change in Iowa is Changing U.S. PoliticsTIME - Justin Worland / Des MoinesKamala Harris is trying not to step in it. As the California Senator turned presidential candidate tours a beef-and-produce farm in south-central Iowa on Aug. 11, a crouching campaign aide carefully walks
Climate The World Isn’t Ready For Climate RefugeesFiveThirtyEight - Maggie Koerth-Baker You can batten the hatches against a storm, but bureaucracy is harder to ride out. Last week, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record made …
Play buttonGlobal Citizen Festival The Great Green Wall Is the Type of Utopian Project That Could Save the Planetglobalcitizen.org - Joe McCarthy Why Global Citizens Should CareThe Great Green Wall is an ambitious multinational project that seeks to restore landscapes across the Sahel region of …
Greta Thunberg 10 Things We Learned About Greta Thunberg From Her Interview With Naomi Kleinglobalcitizen.org - By Joe McCarthy “I don’t know how many laugh attacks I’ve had just watching these tweets.” The United Nations warns that climate change could unravel all the progress …
Area 51 4,000 Gallons of Fuel and More Jail Space: How Tiny Nevada Towns Are Doomsday Prepping for "Storm Area 51"VICE - Alex LubbenWith only 10 days until “Storm Area 51” happens, the pressure’s on in the tiny county in rural Nevada that’s expecting some 15,000 alien enthusiasts to swarm the place. Lincoln County, Nevada (pop. roughly
The Arts The Forces That Are Killing the American DreamThe New York Times - By DAVID LEONHARDTThe Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream By Nicholas Lemann When the writer William H. Whyte coined the term “Organization Man” in his 1956 book of the same name, he did not mean it a
End of the World: Post-Apocalyptic Movies You Have to Seecheatsheet.com - anthea-mitchell So what happens after the bomb hits, the zombies arrive, disease ravages the population, and the earth floods? If you take dystopia just one step …
Outdoors The Environment Is Being Weaponized for HateOutside Magazine - Heather HansmanOver the years, one of environmentalism’s biggest drawbacks has been its blinding whiteness and the implied exclusivity of outdoor spaces. That’s changing, slowly, thanks to mainstream and upstart groups
Climate World 'gravely' unprepared for effects of climate crisis – reportThe Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorThe world’s readiness for the inevitable effects of the climate crisis is “gravely insufficient”, according to a report from global leaders. This lack of preparedness will result in poverty, water shortages
Opinion How Democracy Dies, American-StyleThe New York TimesDemocracies used to collapse suddenly, with tanks rolling noisily toward the presidential palace. In the 21st century, however, the process is usually subtler. Authoritarianism is on the march across of
trump news update A Shocking Number of Americans Want to 'Just Let Them All Burn'VICEWe all feel lost sometimes. Forgotten, disengaged from society, alienated. From there, it can be a short distance to anger, or something more intense than anger—rage, even hatred, directed against yourself,
Climate Scientists Are Furious Over a Viral Article on How to 'Prepare' For Climate ChangeScienceAlert - TAYLOR NICOLE ROGERS Scientists and climate experts are furious after a New Yorker opinion column declared the fight against climate change useless. In an essay entitled …
Climate What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?The New Yorker - Jonathan FranzenJonathan Franzen writes about the tendency of media and politicians to describe the climate crisis with an excess of hope, and about the different decisions that become available after realizing that climate
Politics ‘The United States is broken as hell’ – the division in politics over race and classGuardian US - Gary Younge“However rebellious children may be, they have their parents’ genes; American radicals are Americans,” wrote the late radical writer Andrew Kopkind in the New York Times in 1968. “They cannot easily cross
El Salvador How climate change is driving emigration from Central Americapbs.org - Miranda Cady Hallett, The Conversation Clouds of dust rose behind the wheels of the pickup truck as we hurtled over the back road in Palo Verde, El Salvador. When we got to the stone-paved …
Democracy The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of DemocracyPOLITICO - By RICK SHENKMANHuman brains aren’t built for self-rule, says Shawn Rosenberg. That’s more evident than ever. Rick Shenkman, founder of George Washington University’s History News Network, is the author of Political How
