Ab Klasse 11, ...


James Hansen is known as the "Father of Global Warming",
because of his 1988 testimony before the U.S. Senate, in which he announced that
"... the greenhouse effect has been detected, and is changing our climate now."

1988

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The Newsroom, EPA scene, Nov 23, 2014




Long version.

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Most of the climate activists and operatives of democracy see themselves,
like the wider consumer culture, as being in the business of selling hope.
Without hope, they argue, people would succumb to despair.
People would not resist the looming catastrophe.
Of course, the opposite is true.
Hope, or rather false hope, exacerbates despair and lethargy.
It infantilizes the population.

Chris Hedges

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   One rich American is responsible for much of the ongoing destruction of the Amazon
— and he happens to be a top donor to Trump and McConnell

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The Right to a Future, with Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg
The Intercept, NY, Sep 10, 2019