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CLIMATE CRISIS

Steve Poftak
The 110 MBTA bus is pictured on Chelsea Street in Everett.
The MBTA’s shift to zero emissions for its bus lines is happening
The MBTA will begin procurement of 80 battery electric buses this year, which will enter service starting in 2023.

LETTERS
President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the second day of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate at the East Room of the White House on April 23.
Biden off to a bold start on climate
Biden’s first 100 days have been impressive and have the potential to be historically important.

LETTERS
People waited for a ferry in Charlestown in this June 2012 file photo.
In reconnecting with nature, we could revive it
Both Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, in Providence, and Renée Loth, on the Opinion pages, invite the public to participate, emphasizing that we all matter.

IDEAS | BEN JACKSON
Wooden arrows show the distances to various cities on King George Island, Antarctica.
The bottom of the world rises to the top of social media
TikTok becomes an unlikely home for cold, hard facts about Antarctica.

Joe Boncore and María Belén Power
A 111 bus heads over the Tobin Bridge from Chelsea to Boston.
By investing in electric Silver Line buses, MBTA would be investing in healthier neighborhoods
Who decides which Chelsea residents have cleaner air and which don’t? What about the residents of East Boston?

Edward J. Markey
America needs a Civilian Climate Corps
America needs to get back to work, and we can do that while confronting the intersecting crises of the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice, economic inequality, and climate change.

LETTERS
Plastic waste in the Nairobi River in Nairobi on Aug. 3, 2020.
Our climate change ‘Earthshot’
Once we achieve the necessary sense of urgency, we could go on to make the many sacrifices needed.

Alex Papali and Rebecca Herst
Smoke billows from a Marathon Petroleum refinery near a neighborhood in southwest Detroit.
Infrastructure investments move us toward an equitable climate resilient future
Without a carefully targeted approach, these climate and infrastructure investments will almost certainly exacerbate persistent inequities.

Frances Moore Lappé
Pump jacks and wind turbines are visible inside of a cotton field near Lamesa, Texas, in 2015.
It’s not too late to make a difference on the climate crisis
We can act now with proven tools to cut greenhouse gas emissions and store vastly more carbon in plants and the earth.

L. Rafael Reif
The ‘super wicked problem’ of climate change is our Earthshot
We must find affordable, equitable ways to bring every aspect of the global economy to net-zero carbon no later than 2050.