Climate Crimes

Faced with the irrefutable facts of global warming, sea-level rise, and large-scale climate collapse, governments and corporations remain determined to enrich themselves no matter the cost to continued life on Earth.

By The Intercept

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Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks
The Intercept - Kate Aronoff
Last Wednesday, over 300 demonstrators at COP25 in Madrid — this year’s 14-day U.N. climate talks, the group’s longest ever — watched from the …
Dec 18, 2019
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New Maria Relief Funds Promise Displacement for Hardest-Hit Puerto Ricans
The Intercept - Alleen Brown
Colorful houses line the winding streets of the San Isidro neighborhood of Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, some missing walls or windows, others with roofs …
Sep 22, 2019
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Why Is Bill De Blasio Trying to Kill Me? New York’s Mayor Claims to Be Progressive but Favors Drivers Over Bicyclists.
The Intercept - Peter Maass
For a number of years, when I was covering wars in places like Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, I would wake up in the morning and conduct a risk …
Sep 22, 2019
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GOP Huddles With Fossil Fuel Industry During Climate Week
The Intercept - Lee FangNick Surgey
Youth demonstrators stormed streets across the world demanding drastic action on the climate crisis on Friday, following a visit by Swedish activist …
Sep 22, 2019
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Indigenous People Are Already Working “Green Jobs” — but They’re Unrecognized and Unpaid
The Intercept - Nick Estes
A growing climate consciousness has spurred popular support for a Green New Deal complete with calls for “green jobs” to aid in the transition away …
Sep 23, 2019
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Two Years After the Hurricane, Puerto Rico’s “Generation Maria” Leads a Climate Strike
The Intercept - Alleen Brown
One of the most important moments in 16-year-old Tristán Queriot Rodríguez Vélez’s climate activism came at the international airport in San Juan, …
Sep 20, 2019
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A New Generation of Activists Put Their Bodies on the Line to Defend California’s Forests
The Intercept - Leighton Akio WoodhousePedro Armando AparicioDavid Zlutnick
The deforestation of the Amazon is recognized around the world as a catastrophe for global climate change. Far less recognized is the threat of …
Sep 21, 2019
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Why VSCO Girls are Going on Strike for the Climate
The Intercept - Kate Aronoff
The Boomers had their hippies. Gen X had its unwashed, nihilistic slackers. Millennials have our phone-obsessed, narcissistic avocado toast munchers. …
Sep 20, 2019
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Brazil’s Army Wanted to “Occupy” the Amazon Before. Leaked Audio Reveals Their Plan to Try Again.
The Intercept - Tatiana Dias
BBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is planning to push industrialization and development in the interior of the country’s Amazon basin. It is far …
Sep 20, 2019
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The Environmental Left Is Softening on Carbon-Capture Technology. Maybe That’s OK.
The Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen
At the start of this year, more than 600 environmental groups — including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Sunrise Movement — sent a letter to …
Sep 20, 2019
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EPA Allowed Companies to Make 40 New PFAS Chemicals Despite Serious Risks
The Intercept - Sharon Lerner
The chemical caused lab rats to lose weight. When pregnant rats were exposed to it, their pups lost weight, too, and their pups’ skulls, ribs, and …
Sep 19, 2019
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Saudi Arabia Denies Its Key Role in Climate Change Even as It Prepares for the Worst
The Intercept - Lee FangSharon Lerner
Anyone who was still questioning whether climate change can exacerbate violent international conflicts has only to look at Saudi Arabia, where drones …
Sep 18, 2019
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The Military Has Done Little to Prepare As Climate Change Threatens Guantánamo
The Intercept - Miriam Pensack
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” So begins Naval Station Guantánamo Bay’s hurricane preparedness guide, which it circulates to the military …
Sep 17, 2019
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Climate Crimes — Reporting by The Intercept
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Faced with the irrefutable facts of global warming, sea-level rise, and large-scale climate collapse, governments and corporations remain determined …
Sep 16, 2019
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What’s in a Trump Straw?
The Intercept - Naomi Klein
Watch as Naomi Klein explains why the overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s …
Sep 15, 2019
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On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe
The Intercept - Alexander Zaitchik
The river basin at the center of Latin America called the Amazon is roughly the size of Australia. Created at the beginning of the world by a …
Jul 6, 2019
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GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon
The Intercept - Lee Fang
This summer, fires are being used to clear wide swaths of the Amazon at an unprecedented rate. One-fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in …
Aug 23, 2019
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Only a Green New Deal Can Douse the Fires of Eco-Fascism
The Intercept - Naomi Klein
Organizers are expecting huge numbers to turn out for the Global Climate Strike, beginning on September 20 and continuing through September 27. It …
Sep 16, 2019
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Amazon Rainforest
Industrialized Militaries Are a Bigger Part of the Climate Emergency Than You Know
The Intercept - Murtaza Hussain
Over a century before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed. Tagore, an …
Sep 15, 2019