THE END OF FOSSIL FUEL

Fossil fuels cause climate change
United Nations: Causes and Effects of Climate Change

Capacity to change to renewables for years
Forbes: The Shift to Renewables: How Far, How Fast?

Fossil fuel industry profits
Reuters: Big Oil doubles profits in blockbuster 2022

Fossil fuel subsidies
International Monetary Fund: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion

Cumulative global emissions
Our World in Data: Share of global cumulative CO2 emissions, 2021

Vulnerability by country
University of Notre Dame: ND-GAIN Country Index

Relocation of Newtok
Alaska Public Media: Newtok residents are desperate to relocate after September storm
Mother Jones: Can $25 Million
Preserve an Alaskan Town Sinking Into the Tundra?

History of the relocation process
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development’s Division of Community and Regional Affairs: Newtok Village Relocation History, Part Five: Mertarvik - Getting Water from the Spring
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development’s Division of Community and Regional Affairs: Newtok Village Relocation History, Part Two: Early Efforts to Address Erosion

Drinking water and sewage issues
Mother Jones: Can $25 Million Preserve an Alaskan Town Sinking Into the Tundra?
The Nation: The Future of Climate Adaptation Is Here in the Native Village of Newtok, Alaska

Camp Fire was CA’s deadliest fire
Western Fire Chiefs Association: History of California Wildfires

Unhoused population and climate refugees in Chico
The Intercept: A Climate Dystopia in Northern California

Evacuees were older and lower income
San Francisco Chronicle: Thousands of Camp Fire evacuees in shelters, tents face long wait for normalcy

Black, brown and Indigenous people are more vulnerable to wildfires
University of Washington and the Nature Conservancy: The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire

Low-income communities are disproportionately dispossessed
University of Georgia: Wildfires disproportionately affect the poor

June 2023 drought
Newsweek: U.S. Wheat Supply Threatened as Worst Drought in Decade Scorches Kansas
National Drought Mitigation Center: Kansas

Farmers’ experiences with drought
NPR: Drought conditions in Kansas, the nation's largest wheat producer, take a toll

Farmers are abandoning fields
Reuters: Kansas farmers abandon wheat fields after extreme drought

Smallest wheat yield since 1957
National Drought Mitigation Center: Wheat being imported from Easter Europe for use in Kansas

First time importing from Eastern Europe
NPR in Kansas City: The High Plains Drought is so Bad that Kansas is Importing Wheat from Europe

Fewer seasonal workers harms the region
NPR: Drought Conditions in Kansas, the nation’s largest wheat producer, take a toll

The San Juan Daily Star: Governor confirms contract for new hospital in Vieques
Vox: A 13-year-old’s death highlights Puerto Rico’s post-Maria healthcare crisis
The New York Times: Puerto Rico: How Do We Know 3,000 People Died as a Result of Hurricane Maria?

Buzzfeed News: The Texas Winter Storm and Power Outages Killed Hundreds More People than the State Says
The New York Times: How Texas' Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster
Sierra Club: Texas Storm Uri Hit People With Disabilities Hard
Yale E360: Scientists See Link Between Arctic Warming and Texas Cold Snap

The Arizona Republic: Yuma farmworker and father of 2 dies amid record heat wave
The Washington Post: Forcing people to work in deadly heat is mostly legal in the U.S.
National Farm Worker Ministry: Farm Workers & The Environment

MIT News: Study: Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S.
U.S. Census Bureau: QuickFacts: Baltimore city (County), Maryland
Capital News Service: Code Red: In urban heat islands, climate crisis hits harder
Baltimore Magazine: Hell and High Water
Baltimore City Health Department: Asthma

Redlining
American Panorama: Mapping Inequality

Heat
Landsat 8 Analysis-Ready Data / USGS Earth Explorer, Acquisition Date: 07/06/2020

Trees
2021 National Land Cover Database % Tree Canopy

John Hope Franklin quote
New York Times Archive: Rediscovering Black America: A Historical Roundup

Widewalls: Mural - The History and The Meaning
Widewalls: All You Need to Know About Mexican Muralism and Muralists
Book an Artist Blog: Discover the Origins of Street Art and Mural Painting
Frieze: How Murals Have Served as Mirrors for Political Change
The Collector: The Art on the Berlin Wall: Sentiments of East and West Berlin

Forensic Architecture: Environmental Racism In Death Alley, Louisiana
The Guardian: Huge toxic site to be built on grounds where slaves are likely buried, files reveal | Environment
The Guardian: First slavery, then a chemical plant and cancer deaths: one town's brutal history | Louisiana
ProPublica: In a Notoriously Polluted Area of the Country, Massive New Chemical Plants Are Still Moving In
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Uneven Magnitude of Disparities in Cancer Risks from Air Toxics
Business Insider: 'We are being poisoned': Black residents living in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' say the state is guilty of 'genocide' and environmental racism
The New York Times: The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery.
EarthJustice: Cancer Alley Rises Up

Earth in Color: Fighting for Warrenton: The Birth of the Environmental Justice Movement with Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis
US EPA: Environmental Justice Timeline
Race, Poverty, and the Environment - National Journal of Social and Environmental Justice: A Pioneer in Environmental Justice Lawyering: A Conversation with Linda McKeever Bullard
University of Kentucky Research Communications: 'Father of Environmental Justice' and Local High School Students Headline CCTS Conference
The Revelator: Dr. Robert Bullard: Lessons From 40 Years of Documenting Environmental Racism
Natural Resources Defense Council: The Environmental Justice Movement
Grist: The event that changed the environmental justice movement forever

United Nations | Media: Press Conference: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
Black History Month 2023: City of London: Slave Trade Money Trail Tour
Historical Materialism Journal: The Origins of Fossil Capital: From Water to Steam in the British Cotton Industry
Boston University School of Public Health: The Industrial Revolution
Equal Justice Initiative: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Book: How the West Came to Rule
PBS: The Cotton Economy and Slaves
National Geographic: How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy
Energy Research & Social Science Journal: Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities

Maxine Burkett quote
Social Science Research Network (SSRN): Climate Reparations

Present-day climate vulnerability is connected to colonialism
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers
Global Citizen: What Is Climate Colonialism? What to Know About Why Climate Change and Colonialism Are Linked.
Bristol University Press: More than a metaphor: ‘climate colonialism’ in perspective

Definition and history of loss and damage
Chatham House: What is loss and damage?
Cambridge University Press: The United States Agrees to Loss and Damage Fund at COP27

Who has been advocating for a Loss and Damage Fund
Loss and Damage Collaboration: Who We Are

UN’s 2022 climate conference established a loss and damage fund
The Guardian: Cop27 agrees historic ‘loss and damage’ fund for climate impact in developing countries

International financing issues
New America: Barbados’s Urgent Call for a Global Climate Finance Plan
The United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General’s SDG Stimulus to Deliver Agenda 2030

History of Exxon’s knowledge of climate change and how it influenced their decision making
LA Times: What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic

Misinformation campaign
Scientific American: Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago
Union of Concerned Scientists: The Climate Deception Dossiers

Shell knew
The Guardian: Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings

API knew
The Guardian: Oil industry knew of 'serious' climate concerns more than 45 years ago

Coal knew
Mother Jones: Coal Knew, Too

Two-thirds of emissions since 1980
The Guardian: Historical climate emissions reveal responsibility of big polluting nations

What is carbon capture and storage?
International Energy Agency: Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage

Industry using it to legitimize their product
The Guardian: The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?

Mississippi incident
NPR: The U.S. is expanding CO2 pipelines. One poisoned town wants you to know its story

Reduced efficiency
Journal of Energy and Environmental Science: The health and climate impacts of carbon capture and direct air capture

Occidental Petroleum lobbying
Open Secrets: Oil and gas industry spent $124.4 million on federal lobbying amid record profits in 2022

“License to continue to operate”
The Guardian: The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?
New Scientist: Most major carbon capture and storage projects haven't met targets

IRA and Mountain Valley Pipeline
The New York Times: Debt Deal Includes a Green Light for a Contentious Pipeline

Manchin and Schumer fossil fuel dollars
The New York Times: Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal

The New Republic: A Company Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline Is Showering Schumer With More Donations Than Manchin

No Fossil Fuel Money pledge signers
No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge: Tell Our Leaders: Take the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge

Fossil fuel industry delegates at UN conference
BBC: COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit

Rhiana Gunn-Wright quote
Hammer and Hope: Our Green Transition May Leave Black People Behind

Climate Justice Alliance Just Transition
Climate Justice Alliance: Just Transition

Sunrise Nancy Pelosi office occupation
The Intercept: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joins Environmental Activists in Protest at Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Office
Sunrise Movement: November 13, 2018 — Sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s Office

What is a Green New Deal?
Sunrise Movement: What is the Green New Deal?
The Intercept: With a Green New Deal, Here’s What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation

What is a Civilian Climate Corps?
Sunrise Movement: The Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), Explained

IRA new job count
The Guardian: Green investment boom and electric car sales: six key things about Biden’s climate bill

IRA healthcare provisions
The New York Times: Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law

IRA corporate taxes

The New York Times: New Corporate Minimum Tax Ushers In Confusion and a Lobbying Blitz

IRA benefits prioritize (white) homeowners
The Grio: Is the Inflation Reduction Act working for Black communities one year later?

IRA and Mountain Valley Pipeline
The New York Times: Debt Deal Includes a Green Light for a Contentious Pipeline

American Climate Corps
The White House: FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches American Climate Corps to Train Young People in Clean Energy, Conservation, and Climate Resilience Skills, Create Good-Paying Jobs and Tackle the Climate Crisis

Benjamin Franta quote
Mashable: The carbon footprint sham

BP invented the carbon footprint
Mashable: The carbon footprint sham

Negative climate emotions
The Lancet: Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey
Force of Nature: The Rise of Eco Anxiety

Supermajority for climate justice
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication: Climate Change in the American Mind: Climate Justice, Spring 2023

Pie charts

66%
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication: Politics & Global Warming, December 2020

77% and 69%
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication: Climate Change in the American Mind: Climate Justice, Spring 2023

Green space, renewable jobs training, low-income housing efficiency
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication: Climate Change in the American Mind: Climate Justice, Spring 2023

False social reality/mass misunderstanding and state statistics
Nature Communications: Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half

2019 CLCPA passage and NY Renews
The Nation: New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land
The New York Times: New York to Approve One of the World’s Most Ambitious Climate Plans
Vox: New York just passed the most ambitious climate target in the country

What is NY Renews and who is part of it
NY Renews

40% EJ/CJ investments and no fossil fuels by 2050 in CLCPA
NY Renews: Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (2019)

NYC-EJA is a co-founder of NY Renews
NYC-EJA: Just Transitions & Energy

WE-ACT for Environmental Justice
weact.org

LANDBACK
landback.org
National Parks Service: Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Planned burning
Yale School of the Environment: Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People

Millions of acres have been transferred to Indigenous tribes
Stanford University: Native American land return movement makes gains, faces obstacles

AP News: Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area
The New York Times: Climate Protesters March on New York, Calling for End to Fossil Fuels
City of Boston: Mayor Michelle Wu Signs Executive Order Banning Fossil Fuels in New City-Owned Buildings
The New York Times: California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
The Straits Times: K-pop fans protest against coal plant to protect beach made famous by BTS
The New York Times: Island Nations Hope for Court's Help on Climate's Effects
PBS NewsHour: African Climate Summit issues unanimous call for world leaders to support global carbon tax on fossil fuels

66%
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication: Politics & Global Warming, December 2020

I Will Oppose the Fossil Fuel Industry

The industry spends billions of dollars on self-preservation
Grist: Big Oil spent $3.6 billion to clean up its image, and it’s working