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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.
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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.
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Jane Fonda Cuts The Chase
2020 is the year we go after those financing the destruction of our planet. The best way to do that is to cut up your Chase ATM card right now. Follow Jane Fonda’s example and film yourself doing it, then be sure to share on social media and tag JPMorgan Chase and @yearsofliving.
Why It’s Time To Take On The Big Banks
Author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben explains why it’s time for the climate movement to take on big banks like Chase. Since the Paris Agreement, which should have signaled that it’s time to move away from investing in fossil fuels, banks have done the opposite and dumped $1.9 trillion into fossil fuel companies.
The Federal Reserve is buying up troubled assets from the fossil fuel industry. That’s unprecedented and risky, explains Sarah Bloom Raskin, who is a former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
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The Real Looting Of America
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The latest number on big banks financing the climate crisis is here. Banks have funneled $2.7 trillion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement. All major global banks fail to seriously address the damage they’re doing to the climate. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, and Bank of America topped the list of fossil fuel financiers.
A Big Reason UN Climate Talks Aren’t Working
The fossil fuel industry has been allowed to underwrite and sponsor the United Nations climate talks for years, including the recent COP25 in Madrid. This creates a massive conflict of interest for a conference that’s supposed to be solving the climate crisis. Sponsorships give oil, coal and gas groups access to events and delegates, creating opportunities to push to weaken the Paris Agreement.
In response, a youth-led group of activists is calling for an end to polluter funding at future COPs. Learn more about the #PollutersOut campaign.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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Andrew Yang’s Climate Change Plan
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has a unique plan to fix the climate crisis. He has a tech-centered approach to renewable energy and carbon sequestration, and he proposes switching nuclear energy plants from uranium to thorium. Yang says that if he’s elected, no one with ties to the fossil fuel industry would be allowed to work in his administration.
Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Climate Plan
If elected President of the United States in 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders plans to address climate change by pushing for the Green New Deal. Here’s a closer look at his campaign proposals, which he says will create millions of green jobs and is estimated to cost $16.3 trillion.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
