Climate Culture
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To get rural Americans involved in climate crisis, see them for who they are
Despite stereotypes, there's really only one characteristic they all share: They hate being told what to do.
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Did we figure out how to make good ‘climate pop’ songs in 2021?
The creep of climate anxiety onto the Top 40 has been a long time coming.
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Walking America’s car-centric hellscape
Much of America isn’t built for walking. Alex Wolfe is doing it anyway.
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‘Don’t Look Up’ shows how hard it is to satirize the end of the world
The climate metaphor starts to fall apart about halfway through, but that’s when the film works best.
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I might have eaten the meal of the future. It cost $270 and left me hungry.
Daniel Humm is trying to change the taste of luxury at Eleven Madison Park in New York.
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Public schools are failing students on climate change
A new book exposes systemic shortcomings in the way global warming is taught in America.
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46% of people say they don’t need to change their habits for the climate
The burgers at COP26 hint at a limited appetite for behavior change.
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Are we still ‘Dune’ this?
In Denis Villeneuve's latest film, the year is 10191 and we can't get enough of extractive colonialism.
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Las Vegas just hosted a climate denier conference and it makes perfect sense
The selection of Caesars Palace as the venue may have been a matter of price or convenience, but it’s hard not to read into the poetry of it.
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Ancient cultures faced rising seas and lived to tell the tale
There’s some truth behind age-old flood myths (even Noah’s Ark and Atlantis).
