"Repeating the agri-business-as-usual model to solve the food and climate crisis cannot deliver on the holistic and systemic transformation of our food systems we need today."
"For decades, the fossil fuel industry and its allies have used the same tactics as the tobacco industry to spread denial and doubt about the harm of its products," the letter states.
"Where things go from there is uncertain, but so far there is no credible pathway to compromise and peace."
Giving users the illusion of control just isn’t a viable regulatory strategy.
The Korean Armistice Agreement and the war it holds in abeyance are a “still-present-past"—and the Biden administration must support efforts for a binding peace agreement.
"The United States has now become one of those countries where environmental advocates are attacked, put in jail, or even murdered for doing their jobs successfully."
“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come,” Victor Hugo once said. The time for the Farm System Reform Act is now. We can’t afford to continue the downward spiral from an unsustainable food system. Here’s how we must change it.
"May his light continue to guide us as we face another wave of Jim Crow laws."
"As a candidate, Mr. Biden said he recognized the problems and injustices of mass incarceration, and he promised to reduce the federal prison population," wrote the Washington Post editorial board. "Here is a chance for him to keep that promise."
What better way to help Americans understand that inequality is killing us.
"The decisions nations make in the next few months will likely determine whether we will or will not ultimately limit global temperature rise at 1.5°C," said the U.N.'s climate chief.
"As the virus continues to claim millions of lives around the world, we cannot afford to lose more precious time."
Many see COP26 as our last, best chance to prevent global temperatures from spiraling out of control.
"While hospitals in our state were filling up, DeSantis was shouting about 'Freedom over Faucism,'" said one Florida physician.
"There is no pathway to this goal without the leadership of the G20," he said after a disagreement over a climate communiqué.
