COP27 Continues the Climate Summit Ritual of Words Without Action, by Pete Dolack

Cop 27 Climate Justice Demonstration

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by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Nov. 23, 2022
November 26, 2022

This has become, sadly, a yearly ritual by now. The world’s governments gather together to discuss what should be done about global warming, and finish their time together by issuing statements of concern while doing little concrete to actually solve the problem. And so it is with COP27.

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Cop25: Never Have So Many Governments Done So Little For So Many by Pete Dolack + Chris Hedges: Sustained Civil Disobedience Necessary To Respond To The Climate Crisis (video no longer available)

Madrid #Fridaysforfuture #climateyouth before the COP25 IMG_4133

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by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Dec. 18, 2019
December 22, 2019

It’s said that it is better to laugh than cry. But what do we do when a situation has become so beyond parody that laughter is impossible?

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The Catastrophic Impact of Climate Change on Developing Countries by Graham Peebles + Biological Annihilation

Climate Change: Too hot to handle

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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
August 5, 2017

The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed in November 2016, was the first time all the world’s nations (except Nicaragua and Syria) committed to reduce emissions and cap man-made global warming.

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Tillerson Agrees Climate Change Is Hurting The Arctic, Contradicting Trump Admin Policies

Rally against Kinder Morgan oil pipeline on Burnaby Mountain

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Dandelion Salad

TheRealNews on May 12, 2017

The Secretary of State stopped short of linking climate change to human activity, when he signed the Fairbanks Document this week in Alaska. But Janet Redman of Oil Change International says the Trump Administration is still denying the urgency of the warming planet.

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