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CLIMATE CRISIS

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Bruce Springsteen, Marie Kondo, and the power of subtraction
A new book explores ‘the untapped science of less.’

IDEAS | Julia Wallerce and Ari Ofsevit
A bus with doors on both sides pulls into a station in Indianapolis.
Let’s board buses on both sides now
A basic design change would create new options on city streets.

LETTERS
In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a mechanized shovel loads a haul truck with coal at the Spring Creek coal mine near Decker, Mont.
Renewable energy and renewed opportunity for fossil fuel workers go hand in hand
If we’re going to retrain a large number of people, we also must do what we can to ensure that jobs exist.

Timmons Roberts
Act on Climate gives us the chance to fix the 2014 law and become climate leaders once again.
Top 10 reasons Governor McKee’s first big signing ceremony should be for Act on Climate
Signing the bill into law will improve the health of residents, help secure a viable future, and bring a series of benefits such as green jobs and healthier air for Rhode Island.

Sharon E. Burke
Coal is transported via conveyor belt to the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant that supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming, in 2014.
The high cost of achieving net zero
President Biden is calling for 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035, and net zero emissions by 2050.

IDEAS | SUSANNE BROOKS & DANIEL RAIMI
A coal miner near Wylo, W. Va.
Give former fossil fuel workers a stake in the clean energy future
Combat climate change and help coal communities unlock new opportunities at the same time.

Bill McKibben
Harvard tries to subvert votes too
The 2020 elections, at Harvard and in the US, have shown what a majority of voters want: climate action and inclusive governance.

LETTERS
Greenpeace activists delivered to food and drinks giant Nestle a 4-meter bird's nest made from plastic waste in front of Nestle's headquarters, in Vevey, Switzerland, on Dec. 8, 2020.
Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act
It is infuriating to know that plastic items with numbered triangles are ending up in the world’s landfills, waterways, fields, and roads.

Mindy Lubber
A Boston firefighter wades through waters from Boston Harbor that flooded onto Long Wharf in Boston in January 2018.
There’s no time to waste — Baker, Legislature must enact the climate bill
Providing regulatory certainty is the best way to spur industry innovation to meet major pollution challenges.

LETTERS
The frontage road area looking toward downtown Boston was captured in a 2014 aerial file photo, when the location was a proposed site for the Summer Olympics.
Climate resilience is the best investment city could make at Widett Circle
This area just south of downtown Boston was historically open water, and it already floods regularly.