Modern medicine declares war on loneliness with drugs & bots, threatening introverts with extinction
rt.com | 2019-08-16
With pharmaceutical and even robotic "cures" in the works for loneliness – a condition once considered part of the normal human emotional range but now framed as a health risk – we risk losing the ability to be alone at all. | …
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Trump Endangers the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-16
The protection of threatened species will now be weighed against the economic benefit their extinction might mean. Meanwhile, states would no longer be able to review the impact of projects on water quality, in accordance with the decades-old the Clean Water Act…
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The Trump administration dismantles endangered species protections as sixth mass extinction crisis looms
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-16
Today, the Trump administration released a final rule dismantling the role of science in informing protections for endangered and threatened wildlife. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the protections it has afforded to threatened and endangered species have been based on the best available science and commercial data. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/16/the-trump-administration-dismantles-endangered-species-protections-as-sixth-mass-extinction-crisis-looms/
Ernest Coverson on Guns & Human Rights, Carey Gillam Under Attack From Monsanto
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-08-16
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Climate Change Town Hall in Rhonert Park, Sonoma Co
Rep. Mike Thompson | indybay.org | 2019-08-16
Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park 94928…
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Like Arron Banks, a Tory radio show host is now having 'fun' mocking and taunting a teenager
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2019-08-16
Arch-Brexiteer Arron Banks caused an uproar on 14 August for 'joking' about climate activist Greta Thunberg getting in a "freak yachting accident". Clearly though, Britain's right wing didn't think that was enough offensive trolling for the 16-year-old in one day. Tory radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer stuck it to Thunberg too. | What is it in these knuckleheads that makes them think it's 'fun' to mock this teenager?
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Protesters Crash ALEC Conference to Resist Bill Criminalizing Pipeline Activists
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-15
| Four protesters with the Austin chapter of Extinction Rebellion were briefly detained and released Thursday after three activists disrupted a private lunch session inside the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Austin, where the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its annual conference this week. Two other activists disrupted the event on the hotel's fourth and second floors. | Inside a private ballroom, the activists chanted and dropped a banner reading "People & Pla…
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Arron Banks slammed for 'joking' about Greta Thunberg getting in a 'freak yachting accident'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-15
Insurance tycoon Arron Banks has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg.The Leave.EU founder responded to a post by Green party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta's voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: "Freak yachting accidents do happen in August …"He later tweeted that it was a "joke" after his comment sparked outrage from social media users.Arron Banks said his tweet was a "joke" (PA)Among those to criticise his post was actress Amanda Abbington, who tweeted: "You're wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why..?"She had ea…
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Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-15
| Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government's State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Societ…
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Report: 'No Evidence that Fracking Can Operate without Threatening Public Health'
Tara Lohan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing — the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into shale to release trapped hydrocarbons — there were more questions than answers about environmental and public-health threats. That …
globalresearch.ca/report-no-evidence-fracking-can-operate-without-threatening-public-health/5686504
Fracking and shale drilling caused spike in climate-warming methane pollution, says new study
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government's State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than …
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The youth of the world call on us to act against climate change
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
Since Greta Thunberg began her Friday strikes in front of the Swedish parliament, calling for action against climate change, she has been joined by millions of young people around the world. They call on adults to rise to the challenge of climate change that threatens the future of all. Starting on Friday September 20 there …
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Global Temps Continue to Soar Upward as NOAA Confirms July 2019 Was Hottest Month Since Records Began in 1880
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
With climate scientists observing hotter and hotter temperatures, a top U.S. weather agency reported on Thursday that July 2019 was the hottest month the planet has ever experienced since the government began recording global temperatures. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-6310920221.jpg …
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Restricting climate strikes to one day a year 'not acceptable', say pupils
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-14
Pupils have hit out at proposals to limit climate change protests to just one day a year.Thousands of children descended on the Scottish Parliament building in March and May as part of a wider movement in which action was planned in more than 100 towns and cities across the UK.Edinburgh City Council's education committee is to discuss the issue on Friday, with more action planned by the Scottish Youth Climate Strike (SYCS) group on September 20 and 27 as part of more global action. | Despite the local authority being one of the first to allow pupils to miss school with parental permission so they could protest, p…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/14/restricting-climate-strikes-to-one-day-a-year-not-acceptable-say-pupils/
Why Marx matters: capitalism and the Metabolic Rift
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-14
CO2 was identified as a prime driver of global warming in the 1950s and has been the subject of many international meetings over the past 30 years. Despite increasing calls to reduce carbon emissions, they continue to rise faster and faster. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/14/why-marx-matters-capitalism-and-the-metabolic-rift/
'People Are Demanding Accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry' – CounterSpin interview with Sriram Madhusoodanan about climate justice
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-08-14
Janine Jackson interviewed Sriram Madhusoodanan about climate justice for the August 2, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
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Australia 'tips petrol on the fire' at Pacific Islands Forum
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-14
Climate change Pip HinmanIssue 1233 Tuvalu 2019 Pacific Islands ForumAustralia's bullying behaviour was in full view again at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Tuvalu, as it ignored pleas to take climate change seriously. It played a dirty role in obstructing…
greenleft.org.au/content/australia-tips-petrol-fire-pacific-islands-forum
Bayer/Monsanto Silencing Journalists, Activists, and Scientists
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-13
Investigative reporter Carey Gillam talks about Bayer/Monsanto's efforts to discredit her work and deflect criticism about cancer-causing glyphosate, a major ingredient in Roundup pesticide…
therealnews.com/stories/bayer-monsanto-silencing-journalists-activists-and-scientists
The Once Common Republican Environmentalist Is Virtually Extinct
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-08-13
The Once Common Republican Environmentalist Is Virtually Extinct…
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Sydney choir take musical stand for ecology
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-13
music ecology environment Climate change Susan PriceIssue 1233 AustraliaGreen Footprints | Ecopella | 2018 | If you like political…
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How Climate Activists Can Benefit from Solidarity with Kentucky Coal Miners
Ryan Driskell Tate | progressive.org | 2019-08-12
As fossil-fuel workers lose their jobs today, the urgency of what climate activists call the "just transition" becomes all the more apparent.
progressive.org/dispatches/climate-activists-benefit-from-solidarity-with-coal-miners-tate-190812/
Our Vanishing World: Rainforests
Robert J. Burrowes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-12
Rainforests are a crucial feature of Earth's biosphere. Apart from being critical to Earth's climate and vital carbon sinks, the major player in Earth's hydrological (water) cycle, a massive producer of oxygen and home to most of the world's species, rainforests are the home of a large Indigenous human population. They are also the source …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/our-vanishing-world-rainforests/
FROM THE FIELD: 'Eco-warriors' fight climate change in South Africa
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-11
Schools in South Africa have been designating students as "eco-warriors" as part of an initiative supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), to drive environmental and climate change awareness amongst the young and old in their communities.
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Documents Reveal Monsanto Surveilled Journalists, Activists & Even Musician Neil Young
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-09
Explosive new documents reveal the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto ran a "fusion center" to surveil and discredit journalists and activists who criticized or wrote damning reports about Monsanto, as well as legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young, who released an album in 2015 called "The Monsanto Years." Monsanto monitored Young's Twitter activity and even analyzed the lyrics of his album. The fusion center also surveilled journalist Carey Gillam, who has done extensive research and writing about Monsanto and its popular pesticide Roundup, which has been linked to cancer. The corporation also targeted the nonpro…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/9/monsanto_fusion_center_surveillance_of_critics
Supersizing Climate Change: U.N. Says Meat Production Destroys Land & Diminishes Key Water Sources
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-09
The United Nations' top panel of climate scientists warns that humans are consuming land and water resources at an unprecedented rate, with the destructive effects of the climate crisis increasingly threatening the planet's biodiversity and the food security of hundreds of millions of people. In its latest climate change and land special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that without dramatic action, extreme weather and rising temperatures will turn even more fertile land into desert, shrinking the global food supply, even as the world's population rises to more than 7.5 billion people.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/9/ipcc_report_climate_change_and_land
Thursday's Daily Brief: Climate crisis and food risks, fresh violence threat for millions of Syrians, calls for calm in Kashmir
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-08
Thursday's top stories: food security risk from climate crisis, fresh violence threat for millions of Syrians, UN chief urges "maximum restraint" in Jammu and Kashmir, calls for investigations into "brutal abduction" of Libyan politician.
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Climate change is class war
Jodi Dean | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-31
Our challenge is to build the collective power that can force the changes the capitalist system refuses to make.
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