Climate Change Archives

Revisiting Bella Abzug’s Vision Post-Beijing, 25 Years Later

On September 12, 1995, Bella Abzug took to the podium at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China to ask: “What will we accomplish at the week’s end when the [Beijing] Platform for Action is adopted by the world’s women and its 189 governments?”

Since then, feminists have not stopped advocating for gender justice, and in facing current realities, have turned toward each other to build power, speak truth, and renew commitments to the promise of Beijing—to the promise of a just and healthy world.

Weekly Pulse: Fires Pose Health Risk Across Western U.S.; Trump Admits to Downplaying Virus Threat

Giselle Hengst

In this edition: Wildfires pose health risks across the Western United States; President Trump admits to downplaying virus threats; talking Title X; and your weekly dose of COVID-19 updates.

Cooperate on Climate Now or We’re Doomed, UN Secretary-General Warns

The Team

California endured a slew of fires caused by more than 12,000 dry-lightning strikes in August, and experts say such wildfires will become normal if major steps are not taken soon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The United States’ “dynamic society,” rather than government policy, is driving more “climate action” measures, says the UN secretary-general.

When Facts Fail To Turn Skeptics, Try Storytelling

Kate Yoder

Sharing personal anecdotes about how the climate crisis is changing our lives for the worse can persuade people to care, according to a new study. And that’s including conservatives.

COVID’s Lowered Meat Production Leads to Decline in Pollution, Waste and Greenhouse Gases

Kelly Madera

The agricultural industry is contracting. The pandemic has slowed the rate of meat production, which in turn has allowed for rates of pollution, water waste and greenhouse gases to decline.

Dear America and My Soon-to-be Sprout

Elizabeth Rush

Author Elizabeth Rush explores the intersection of motherhood and environmental activism in this letter to her future child. The letter is included in a new book, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance and Democracy.

Eco-Feminism is Intersectional Feminism

Chelsea Johnson

We all depend on the clean air, clean water and oxygen provided by beautiful spaces such as the Amazon rainforest. Fighting for our environment and the collective needs of Earth’s dwellers in ways that best benefits them is putting intersectional feminist social justice in action.

#FireDrillFriday: Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem Were Arrested While Striking for Action on Climate Change

Feminist Newswire

Actor and activist Jane Fonda and Ms. magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem were arrested today in Washington, D.C., alongside National Domestic Workers Alliance Director Ai-jen Poo and Moral Mondays leader Reverend William Barber II, at a climate change action also attended by founder of United Farm Workers and Feminist Majority Foundation board member Dolores Huerta.