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A 700-WORD ANALYSIS OF THE COP 26 AGREEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 14, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

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Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: 2021 Climate Change Conference, agreement, Apparent Horizon, carbon, china, Climate Change, coal, Column, COP 25, corporations, Democracy, Doom, EU, European Union, Failure, france, gas, Germany, global warming, India!, Italy, Jason Pramas, oil, Saudi Arabia, UK, UN, United Kingdom, united nations, United States, US

ELECTIONS DON’T SOLVE EVERYTHING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 2, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

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Push the US govt. to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty. No matter which party wins this week.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, ban, Column, Democracy, Honduras, ICANW, international, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Jamaica, Jason Pramas, military, Nauru, news, nuclear weapon, nuke, policy, Politics, treaty, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, UN, united nations, usa

2019: WE HAVE 11 YEARS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 26, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,”  I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following:

 

The big question for Bostonians and anyone ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2030, adaptation, Apparent Horizon, Boston, china, Climate Change, coal, Column, development, Fourth National Climate Assessment, france, gas, Germany, global warming, IPCC, japan, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, migration, new england, news, oil, Paris Agreement, Politics, poor, survival, third world, UK, united nations, United States, US

2018: THE YEAR IN GLOBAL WARMING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 19, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” —Petteri Taalas, secretary-general, World Meteorological Organization

 

Given all the developments I could review from the year ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: adaptation, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Climate Change, Column, Fourth National Climate Assessment, global warming, IPCC, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, migration, Monmouth University, new england, news, Paris Agreement, Politics, survival, united nations

BOSTON FIDDLES WHILE THE WORLD BURNS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 24, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

City government continues issuing reports while UN calls for immediate action

 

When writing about human-induced global warming on a regular basis, it’s a good idea to pace oneself. Because it’s such a relentlessly depressing topic that highlighting it too often can backfire. Faced with an existential threat of such magnitude that ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, carbon dioxide, chelsea, Climate Change, coal, Columbia Gas, Column, east boston, ecology, economy, electricity, Environment, Eversource Energy, fossil fuel, global warming, greenhouse gas, GreenRoots, IPCC, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, National Grid, natural gas, news, NiSource, oil, Politics, regulation, united nations, utility

LETTERS TO THE FUTURE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 19, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

The Dig teams up with comrades coast to coast (and some major bestselling authors) to crank the heat on climate change awareness

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, Bill McKibben, Climate Change, Jim Hightower, Letters to the Future, Media Consortium, Paris Climate Talks, Roxanne Robinson, T.C. Boyle, united nations

FOUND IN TRANSLATION: ART AS A TOOL FOR INDIGENOUS EMPOWERMENT AT BU

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted February 8, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Gluckstein’s passion for the preservation and protection of indigenous peoples has driven her career for the past 30 years. Now, she hopes to use her art to raise awareness.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Amnesty International, boston university, Dana Gluckstein, declaration of rights, DIGNITY: Tribes in Translation, empowerment, Hasselblad, human rights, indian health services, indigenous, Nairobi, native american, President Obama, stanford, stone galley, united nations

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