Climate politics articles
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Climate politics and the bottom line — CBS News poll
For many years addressing climate change has been framed, at least in political debates, as one that carries an economic tradeoff: Could we afford to do it, even if we think it's otherwise a good idea, or would it cost jobs and money in a world so dependent on fossil fuels? This framing endures today in many ways — especially on a personal level, if not a macro one.People are far more likely to oppose U.S. efforts to combat climate change if they think it will hurt their personal finances. In...
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Focus on climate crisis over wars: Climate scientist on Earth Day
Addressing the climate crisis, not wars, should be on top of world’s to-do list, one of the world’s top climate scientists said on Sunday. India should be prepared to face killing heat and related disasters, Friederike Otto, senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change and the Environment at London’s Imperial College, said in an interview with Jayashree Nandi. The climate emergency is supercharging floods, droughts and heavy rain across the world, said the leading climate...
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‘MI Healthy Climate Corps’ helping community with combating climate change
The ‘MI Healthy Climate Corps’ started in March and members of a new state program are focused on helping communities with initiatives to help tackle climate change.