First published in the Austin Sierran, the newsletter of the Austin Group of Sierra Club, on September 7th, 2020. Republished with permission. It is hard to overstate the importance of Chrysta Castañeda’s race for the Railroad Commission—the New Republic just called it “The Country’s Most Important Climate Election.” Let that article sink in! You’ll see …
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Guest post by Russ Martin, exclusive to Indivisible Austin The bushfires currently decimating large swaths of Australia, a country the size of the continental US, were both foreseeable and largely preventable. However, failure to effectively consider climate change impacts and adaptation, coupled with some misguided land management practices, have led Australia to the current catastrophe. …
Austinites walked out of schools and jobs to participate in the global climate strike on September 20, 2019. Photos by Indivisible Austin. Read the Green New Deal Tell John Cornyn his failure to act on the climate crisis is a dereliction of duty
“One theory of government is that it only reacts to a crisis; trouble comes when we cannot even agree on what a crisis is.” —Molly Ivins, on the danger of climate change denialism, in 1995. It’s taken a generation for leaders in Congress to begin taking seriously the threat of climate catastrophe, and now it may …