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The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away

A second Trump administration could stop defending the E.P.A. against lawsuits attacking its climate policies. Other effects might be more far-reaching.

If you want to stop him, it's going to mean not just voting for Kamala Harris but volunteering to help get others to vote for her as well.

The difference is pretty stark. Americans who want to make a difference, it's important to not just vote for Harris but actively volunteer for her campaign

Here's the problem: Trump is out to maximize environmental damage and the US Green Party runs as spoilers. Let's look at three scenarios:

Scenario 1:

Harris: 1001 votes

Trump: 1000 votes

Stein: 0 votes

Harris wins

Scenario 2:

Harris: 1000 votes

Trump: 1000 votes

Stein: 1 vote

Tied vote, which goes to the courts and Congress, putting Trump in power

Scenario 3:

Harris: 999 votes

Trump: 1000 votes

Stein: 2 votes

Trump wins outright

This spoiler effect makes it really imperative to actively vote for Harris if you want to see any kind of climate action going forward. Republicans know this, which is why they're the ones funding the Green Party.

And that's why the European Greens want Jill Stein to step down now — they get that what she's doing is making it easier to elect a fascist bent on environmental destruction.

Oil moguls are big donors to Donald Trump. But so are engineering firms, hedge fund managers, shipbuilders and others that profit from fossil fuels.

And this is just the part they've been able to find — there is surely much more that's not readily visible — Trump asked for a billion-dollar bribe from the industry

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"The District Court considers that climate change is acute and that there is an immediate danger to life, health, and property".

The verdict is a so-called lay judge verdict, where the court's chairman and a lay judge wanted to convict. The man's lawyer, Linus Gardell, calls the verdict historic.

This is the first verdict that addresses the question of the acute climate crisis where the District Court fully acquits a person with reference to the provisions on self-defense, he says.

Another climate activist was previously convicted of the same crime in the District Court but avoided punishment with reference to having acted to protect the climate, so-called penalty waiver. However, that decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal, which convicted the activist to pay a fine. featured