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Climate change: how businesses can deal America's most divisive issue
2014-06-12 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week. Radical religion-fueled vigilantes have bombed abortion clinics and stalked and killed the doctors who perform them. But it's not gun rights or abortion that has Democrats and Republicans most at odds today it's the science of climate change. This is sort of an ideal wedge issue, and its been exploited that way, said Lawrence Hamilton, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who specializes in the study...
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Climate change is divisive. Climate solutions are not
2014-05-14 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On the first Earth Day in 1970, environmental sentiment was proudly worn and fiercely optimistic. It tapped into a deep concern for our future shared by young and old; rich and poor; left, right, and center. Now, as the world faces an accelerating global climate crisis, political will has faded and divided. Grand bargains are far from view. And failure to find common ground and cut carbon pollution could tank the biosphere in ways we cant imagine. And yet, today, Im hopeful. Even though almost...
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VIDEO: US immigration reforms prove divisive
2013-06-23 13:54:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
President Obama has made immigration reform one of his top priorities, but workers and companies both at home and abroad have voiced concerns about the changes.
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Americans having their say on divisive Keystone pipeline plan
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Jobs, say hundreds of thousands of people. Pollution, say hundreds of thousands of others. They say that's what a proposed oil pipeline would bring into the country, as it transports crude from massive deposits in Canadian tar sands to refineries and ports in the United States. The Keystone XL pipeline has triggered a gush of comments from Americans for and against its construction. The State Department in Washington has received 1.2 million since early March, when it came out in support of...
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TSA yes to knives proving divisive - Sun, 10 Mar 2013 PST
2013-03-10 10:28:43| Airlines - Topix.net
A move by federal officials to allow passengers to board planes carrying pocketknives has sparked a backlash by airline workers and is sowing confusion among travelers.