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Death Metal for a Dying Planet

https://inthesetimes.com/article/22365/metal-band-music-cattle-decapitation-climate-change-travis-ryan-death-atlas

JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race:  Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/21/jp-morgan-economists-warn-climate-crisis-threat-human-race

Is Building Missiles ‘Essential’? The U.S. Government Thinks So.  Some workers in the defense industry question why they’re required to stay on the job, and many are worried about safety.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/22430/military-work-essential-government-coronavirus-covid-19

When Environmentalists Won Over the Supreme Court: How one improbable legal case drove the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2020/when-environmentalists-won-over-the-supreme-court/

Amidst the pandemic, koalas are quietly sold out for coal

https://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/koalasnotcoal/?fbclid=IwAR0sg1R468odkp6DFwvrhu3Oe-9WiDxKmSFyQgU-cDPWx9GnvqgmEafHMi4#.Xo3ivw52PCy.facebook

Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=Zk11vI-7czE&feature=emb_logo&fbclid=IwAR20aQXVGzjbPW0Q5ICrnqwMrR6cVueOdfVYiDNXwWa6IGZbeJ7cXrPjMZM

Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil: Planet of the Humans deceives viewers about clean energy and climate activists.

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR1KwqotN148bPeZ-IJMj5bQMMMN-bxQdXutcKgmZW6Xs3OZgL2ruKTNXi0

EARTH DAY 2020

https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/

The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About with Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXURo0FUjM

The Day the Earth Moved: On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, environmental activism has never been more important.

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-day-earth-moved-nelson/

We can all make a difference on climate change.  The American Humanist Association is empowering nontheists to act.

https://hereforclimate.org/

American Foreign Policy Is Not Ready for Climate Change: The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.

https://newrepublic.com/article/157160/american-foreign-policy-not-ready-climate-change

What Is At Risk and What We Can Do Now

https://www.populist.com/26.08.turtle.html

Earth Day Turns 50

https://www.populist.com/26.08.lingo.html

One Of Us: Mark W. Moffett On The Social Behavior Of Humans And Other Animals

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/532/one-of-us-issue-532

Home Range

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/532/home-range

Drinking With The Creek

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/532/drinking-with-the-creek

To my son, born in the time of coronavirus and climate change

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/weather/climate-change-bill-weir-letter-to-son/index.html

The Road to Change: America's Climate Crisis

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/04/20/road-to-change-america-climate-crisis-weir.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Climate crisis in Alaska is impacting the entire world

https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2019/09/05/alaska-climate-crisis-impact-weir-pkg-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

How climate change is changing lives

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/08/faces-of-climate-change-orig-nws.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Scientists agree: Climate change is man-made

https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2015/09/17/climate-change-97-percent-consensus-orig.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

See how candidates stood out in 7 hours of climate talk

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/05/climate-crisis-town-halls-best-moments-llr-orig.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Warren: Where Trump is right now is a nightmare

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/05/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-cnn-climate-crisis-town-hall-2020-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Biden: Military warned us of climate crisis danger

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/05/joe-biden-climate-change-town-hall-military-personal-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Sanders: Trump's stance on climate change is idiotic

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/04/bernie-sanders-sot-trump-stance-climate-cnn-town-hall-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Harris on Trump: Lead or get out of the way

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/04/kamala-harris-climate-change-town-hall-filibusters-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Yang: You know what's expensive? Poisoning our kids

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/04/yang-cnn-climate-crisis-town-hall-2020-democratic-candidates-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

O'Rourke: We need to support the people of Puerto Rico

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/05/beto-orourke-cnn-climate-crisis-town-hall-puerto-rico-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Pete Buttigieg: I would ask Trump to step aside

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/05/pete-buttigieg-climate-town-hall-one-question-for-trump-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Warren: This is what fossil fuel wants us talking about

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/04/elizabeth-warren-fossil-fuel-industry-cnn-climate-town-hall-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Student calls out Julian Castro's record on fracking

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/04/julian-castro-fracking-cnn-climate-crisis-town-hall-2020-vpx-sot.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Meet teen climate activist Greta Thunberg

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/09/20/greta-thunberg-profile-bill-weir-climate-pkg-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

What you can actually do to slow the climate crisis

https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2019/09/03/climate-change-global-warming-what-can-i-do-chad-myers-nws-orig.cnn/video/playlists/climate-change/

Five ways that Trump is undermining environmental protections under the cover of coronavirus:  While the world focuses on the pandemic, the United States is adopting controversial policies at the Environmental Protection Agency.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01261-4?fbclid=IwAR2XkWW6zWCqESGa87zwqJvTREtADqq2RFun7qZxJvUc_5VX7TWuAUtMlms

EPA's independent science board says 'secret science' proposal may 'reduce scientific integrity'

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/495115-epas-independent-science-board-says-secret-science-proposal-may?fbclid=IwAR2WqqlJjr231WagcoLtypY8gm9JY4cS7gfPjY2KAfz-nhMppH93yRSoeos

The Trump Administration Environmental Record

https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/the-trump-environmental-record/?fbclid=IwAR0p1t1Xmah-1e7i5o48eJxgbCXPy7aXd1HwcJad9ATLUFUf3YoO4UuJNZg

The Trump Environmental Record: Real-life Impacts on Public Health and the Environment

https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Trump-Environmental-Record-Report-4-17-20.pdf

How China Turned Off the Tap on the Mekong River

https://www.stimson.org/2020/new-evidence-how-china-turned-off-the-mekong-tap/?fbclid=IwAR2XcA2RkhK77FRFeG6T_bp1zUXyuGescbSs3ALGlZ5LlOuY4WMd6vZdCh4

Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong. The documentary's "facts" are deceptive and misleading, not to mention way out of date

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29042020/inside-clean-energy-michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-review?amp&fbclid=IwAR2WfyyHEjag7Afi1irRxUmipM2GSgQYci7nKQHlCsXAJ364iw6utEiyxOQ

Meet the New Flack for Oil and Gas: Michael Moore.  Planet of the Humans is wildly unscientific, outdated, full of falsehoods, and benefits fossil fuel industry promoters and climate deniers.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/planet-humans-film-moore/?fbclid=IwAR2OQ5alGJ5vEbghmZCcDgfKwoV51pqQ4N-QWg6odsn--NA_GwEXhYZ9TZA