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Racism Is Killing The Planet
We will never solve climate change without solving racism. That’s the message of three climate experts, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Hop Hopkins, and Anthony Rogers-Wright, who explain how fossil fuel companies justify Black communities’ suffering and ignore their calls for action on the climate crisis.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of America’s last untouched pieces of wilderness. The Trump Administration is rushing to open it up to oil companies.
#WeCanSolveThis: Harnessing The Power of The Earth
Before John Wick was the co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, he was just trying to find a way to get rid of weeds on his ranch when he stumbled upon a powerful climate change solution. Then he learned about an approach to farming helps sequester carbon in the soil, and could be a major solution in the fight against climate change.
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Why We Need A Green Recovery
The American economy is in free-fall, but passing a green stimulus to fund climate solutions would put millions back to work. What’s more, this proposal is extremely popular, especially among young people. Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Mark Paul explain why the path forward is clear.
Use Your Money To Fight The Climate Crisis
Your money is an extension of you. That’s why Nili Gilbert, co-founder of hedge fund Matarin Capital, says you should be on top of which companies are receiving loans from your bank, using your hard-earned cash. Do you know whether your bank is using you to fund the climate crisis?
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, who leads the Hip Hop Caucus, joined a group of climate advocates at a protest inside a Chase Bank branch in Washington, D.C. He explains how banks are fueling climate change by financing the fossil fuel industry, and why we need climate justice to fight the climate crisis.
Years After Hurricane Katrina
As Hurricane Laura threatens the Gulf Coast, we also remember Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the region 15 years ago. Rev. Lennox Yearwood from the Hip Hop Caucus tells us what we’ve learned since then and why it matters.
Racism Is Killing The Planet
We will never solve climate change without solving racism. That’s the message of three climate experts, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Hop Hopkins, and Anthony Rogers-Wright, who explain how fossil fuel companies justify Black communities’ suffering and ignore their calls for action on the climate crisis.
Are The Big Banks Racist?
Big banks have profited by exploiting the planet and people, including enslaved people. Dana Grigg and Rachel J. Robasciotti explain this racist legacy.
How Occidental Petroleum Wrote Its Own Bailout
At first, Occidental Petroleum had too many employees and too much revenue to qualify for federal aid. So how did the major oil and gas company ultimately get the bailout it wanted? Investigative reporter Zorka Milin explains how the company lobbied for rule changes.
Did Climate Change Cause This Hurricane?
Whenever a big storm like Hurricane Douglas or Hurricane Hanna hits, one of the first questions everyone wants to know is ‘Was this latest hurricane caused by global warming – or not?’ Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe answers this frequently asked question about global warming.
Did you know that many people depend on runoff from glaciers for fresh water? But because of climate change, glaciers all around the world are melting. By 2100, half of the world’s glaciers are expected to vanish, and the effects will ripple across the globe. Here’s why that’s so scary.
How Forest Elephants Fight Climate Change
The forests of central Africa store more carbon on average than the Amazon’s rainforests, and scientists only recently discovered the big reason why. The two continents differ because of the presence of forest elephants. Maya Lilly explains how these small elephants are big climate heroes.
How Humidity Makes Heat More Deadly:
The Heat Index Explained
How hot it feels is determined primarily by the heat index, a combination of temperature and humidity. Over the the next 60 years, the heat index is predicted to skyrocket. Climate scientist and extreme weather expert Dr. Radley Horton explains how the combination of heat and humidity will cause unprecedented suffering and disruption around the world.
Read the study Horton and his colleagues published this topic in Science Advances in May 2020: “The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance.”
We Need To Talk About Climate Change
Professor Katharine Hayhoe is not only one of the world’s top climate scientists, she’s also one of the field’s best communicators. She explains why we need to end the silence that surrounds climate change—because only 1 in 5 Americans ever hears someone they know talk about the issue. That’s a terrible way to deal with a crisis.
Students like Dylan skipped school to demand action on the climate crisis, but they’d never skip their chance to VOTE. Pledge to do the same.
Voting For Their Future
Students like Gen skipped school to demand action on the climate crisis, but they’d never skip their chance to VOTE. Pledge to do the same.
Nalleli’s Climate Voter Story
Nalleli Cobo spent her childhood being poisoned by fossil fuel companies, because of oil wells in the neighborhood where she grew up. But she fought back.
Now you can too. Pledge to be a Climate Voter at www.TheYearsProject.com/Vote
Flying Rivers
The Amazon rainforest is under immense pressure, with the number of fires increasing 30.5% over the last year. Gisele Bündchen meets with meets with climate scientist Antonio Donato Nobre above the treetops to learn how important this forest truly is to the whole world.
In 2017, the worst drought in 1,200 years was devastating California, diving farmers to the brink of disaster. Don Cheadle meets a family of farmers whose lives may never be the same as they struggle to find water in the parched Central Valley.
Jack Black takes a seat for a talk therapy session with psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren. They discuss the psychology of climate change. Can she help him?
David Letterman Goes to the Bank
Renewables are changing lives in rural India, as small businesses replace expensive, dirty, and unreliable diesel generators, with cheap, clean, sustainable solar energy. David Letterman visits one such business.
Climate Wars: Yemen
What happens to a society when people start running out of water? New York Times reporter Thomas Friedman went to Yemen to find out.
A Scottish Engineer’s Quest to Design a Kite That Can Power the World
Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he’s been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power.
In Mississippi, the costs of coastal flooding are adding up as climate change drives sea levels higher and higher. Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Video by Nexus Media.
Environmental Racism is Bad for Your Brain
Jeremy Deaton interviews Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind and Beth Gardiner, author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.
These three members of Extinction Rebellion risked arrest in New York City to make a big statement about the climate crisis. We tell their story.
Strike With Us
Nine-year-old Hawkeye Huey calls for support for the global climate strike. Find a strike near you at strikewithus.org.
This video is a collaboration between Amplifier.org and Bemo Studio, and made possible by a grant from the David Rockefeller Fund.
The Nuclear Family
Nuclear plants are closing across New England, so why are these environmentalists rallying to their defense? The Years Project partnered with Exelon to find out.
Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear disaster in American history, but everything you’ve heard about it could be wrong.
Forty years later, The YEARS Project has partnered with Exelon to take a look back.
Rise: From One Island to Another
Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change.
This is an invitation to take a few minutes to watch this film, unplug from your daily distractions, immerse yourself in the beauty of our shared home, and let the poetry heal.
Film made by Dan Lin for 350.org.
