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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Racist Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) There’s a scientific consensus that coal, oil, and gas are frying the planet and will have to be phased out completely to secure a livable future. It’s also clear that each of the three fossil-based energy sources creates deadly, toxic pollution, providing yet another reason to retire the industry. A new report—released by Greenpeace, the Movement for Black Lives, and Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy on Tuesday morning—argues there’s a third reason we must wind down the fossil fuel economy: It’s racist.

Alerts Floodwaters from the Mississippi River rise around a home on June 1, 2019 in West Alton, Missouri. Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Having been a “climate person” for the past decade-plus has been pretty damn exhausting. Every single choice I make has involved agonizing over the environmental ramifications. But as the climate crisis has become impossible to ignore, more and more people are doing the same, including making decisions to move based on sea level rise and extreme heat. Welcome to my world, new climate people. Advertisement Polling and analysis released last week by rea...

Alerts Environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits protest the government’s decision in Seoul, South Korea. Photo: Lee Jin-man (AP) The Japanese government said Tuesday that it would start releasing contaminated water from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean, outlining a long-expected plan that is, understandably, upsetting a whole lot of people. Advertisement Around 1.25 million tons of water accumulated at a nuclear site in Fukushima Prefecture in the wake of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. That disaster ki...

Wo politische Geschichte verfahren ist, können fiktive Bilder Fenster zu Alternativen sein. Die palästinensische Künstlerin Larissa...