I hope your students grapple with MLK’s broader prophetic legacy, beyond civil rights, and being a canary in a collapsing constitutional coal mine. The “intersecting evils” he identified conspired to create the climate crisis—but few today give him credit for that. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...

"ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial."

"Exxon Mobil misled the public about the state of climate science and its implications. …a systematic, quantifiable discrepancy between what Exxon Mobil’s scientists and executives discussed about climate change in private and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public."