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America's Food System Could Be More Vulnerable to Climate Change Than We Thought
2016-01-06 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: For billions of people around the world, the most immediate threat posed by climate change is at the dinner table, as staple crops face a steadily worsening onslaught of drought, heat waves, and other extreme weather events. The United States certainly isn't immune to these challenges; for proof, just look at California, where an unprecedented drought has cost the state's agriculture industry billions. Still, the conventional thinking among many scientists is that developing countries, particularly...
America has been duped on climate change
2016-01-06 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Robert Brulle is a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is co-editor of Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. Future generations will look back on our tepid response to global climate disruption and wonder why we did not act sooner and more aggressively. Climate change will adversely impact present and future generations, as well as all species on Earth. Our moral obligation to protect life requires us to act. Yet even...
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VIDEO: Indian firms change disability policies
2016-01-06 02:28:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Major companies in India begin to change their attitudes towards hiring people with disabilities.
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Bernie Sanders attacks Donald Trump being stupid about climate change
2016-01-05 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Presidential candidate/grumpy gnome Bernie Sanders attacked presidential candidate/national embarrassment Donald Trump on Monday over an issue near and dear to us: climate change. Three years ago, Trump said that the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. Sanders brought that bizarre statement up at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. What an insight, Sanders told the audience. How brilliant can you be? The entire...
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The ethics of climate change: A primer
2016-01-05 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: With a ratcheting up of awareness culminating in the Paris climate change conference, 2015 may have been the year that the threat of climate change was finally taken seriously. But a question remains: Who, if anyone, is most deserving of blame, and who should be held responsible? Today, six of the top 10 greenhouse gas emitters are developing countries, with China the largest contributor at approximately 28 percent of the global total. Yet on the per capita level, the United States and Canada...
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