Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Unveil Another Life-Changing Policy
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-14
Framing the climate crisis as both an existential threat and a "tremendous opportunity" to fundamentally transform American society, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday unveiled a Green New Deal for Public Housing that would eliminate carbon emissions from federal housing, invest $180 billion over ten years in retrofitting and repairs, and create nearly 250,000 decent-paying union jobs per year. | "Faced with the global crisis of climate change, the United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy," Sanders, a 2020 Democr…
truthdig.com/articles/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-unveil-another-life-changing-progressive-policy/

Extinction Rebellion: Rebellion against whom?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-11-14
Through the global climate strike and mass demonstrations for the planet launched by Greta Thunberg, an entire generation has gotten a taste of political action, understanding the need for dramatic change to deal with environmental degradation. It is in this context that the group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has struck a chord. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/14/extinction-rebellion-rebellion-against-whom/

To Confront Climate Change Humanity Needs Socialism
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-14
Humans may not survive. Reports from the UN's Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change provoke images of land masses drowning, fleeing populations, starvation, terrible droughts, terrible storms, migrating diseases, new deserts, and intolerable heat. It's an "ecological Armageddon," says one expert. We hear about "the sixth extinction," the geologic epoch that is our own. It's called…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/14/to-confront-climate-change-humanity-needs-socialism/

Incinerating Logic: Bush Fires and Climate Change
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-14
Despite the Internet, connectivity, and linking technologies, distance has not shrunk the Australian sense of self, an often provincial appraisal of the world seen in slow motion and stills. Whether it's the "flower revolution" or Michel Foucault, trends and ideas are often delayed, and seem almost cutely anachronistic by the time they make landfall down…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/14/incinerating-logic-bush-fires-and-climate-change/

In Our Future Climate Dystopia, This Is What the Pentagon Will Do
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-14
The Situation Room, October 2039: the president and vice president, senior generals and admirals, key cabinet members, and other top national security officers huddle around computer screens as aides speak to key officials across the country. Some screens are focused on Hurricane Monica, continuing its catastrophic path through the Carolinas and Virginia; others are following Hurricane Nicholas, now pummeling Florida and Georgia, while Hurricane Ophelia lurks behind it in the eastern Caribbean. | On another bank of screens, officials are watching horrifying scenes from Los Angeles and San Diego, where millions of…
truthdig.com/articles/in-our-future-climate-dystopia-this-is-what-the-pentagon-will-do/

US oil prepares for 'Plan B' if Democrats take the White House
rt.com | 2019-11-14
US oil producers are preparing for an abrupt change in federal government policies in case a Democrat wins the 2020 vote, with almost 3 million barrels in daily production at stake if this happens. | This is the average amount of oil produced on federal land, according to Rapidan Energy Group, which also said, as quoted by S&P Global Platts, any curb on oil production would also hamper the development of the Permian, the Bakken shale, and the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. | Such a curb would be all but certain. Climate change seems to be the top priority for Democratic voters, so candidates are deliver…
rt.com/business/473457-us-oil-democrats-2020/

UN agency sounds alarm: Dwindling agrobiodiversity 'severe threat' to food security
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-14
To help ensure the most-consumed foods don't disappear in the face of the climate crisis, farmers must cultivate crops able to resist environmental shocks and other stresses, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) highlighted in a new set of conservation guidelines published on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051411

Climate Confusion, Angst, and Sleeplessness
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-14
Climate change is a nagging issue for many people because it is so big, diverse, and overwhelming, as big as the planet itself. So, how to explain climate change? Sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and even anthropologists and economists have tackled the phenomenon of Climate Weltschmerz, meaning people experience angst as the enormity of climate change overrides…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/14/climate-confusion-angst-and-sleeplessness/

Italian mayor blames Venice flooding on climate change
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-14
Venice saw the highest tide in 50 years on Tuesday night threatening many monuments throughout the historic city putting it in a state of emergency. With 45 percent of the city flooded, Venice is asking for the government's help, the Tide Forecasting and Reporting Center of Civil Protection reported. The high tide reached 6 feet, …
nationofchange.org/2019/11/14/italian-mayor-blames-venice-flooding-on-climate-change/

Incinerating Logic: Bush Fires and Climate Change
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-14
Despite the Internet, connectivity, and linking technologies, distance has not shrunk the Australian sense of self, an often provincial appraisal of the world seen in slow motion and stills. Whether it's the "flower revolution" or Michel Foucault, trends and ideas are often delayed, and seem almost cutely anachronistic by the time they make landfall down …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/incinerating-logic-bush-fires-and-climate-change/

Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-14
Marc Brodine, author of Green Strategy, will appear at a book talk on Nov. 14, 2019 at 6 p.m. at the People's Forum in New York, located at 320 West 37th Street. Copies of the book will be available. Humans may not survive. Reports from the UN's Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change provoke images of …
peoplesworld.org/article/green-strategy-to-beat-climate-change-humanity-needs-socialism/

Joining Youth and Age on the Climate Crisis
Michael Lyon | indybay.org | 2019-11-14
Street Level Community Room, Park Branch Library | 1833 Page St. San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/12/18828081.php

New Global Health and Climate Crisis Report Warns of Future 'Where a Child Has to Fight Simply to Survive'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-14
A report published Wednesday in medical journal The Lancet warns that the human-caused climate crisis is already disproportionately affecting children worldwide and "will define the health profile of current and future generations" if left unabated. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11380905441_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/14/new-global-health-and-climate-crisis-report-warns-future-where-child-has-fight?cd-origin=rss

'Beginning of the End of Climate-Wrecking Fossil Fuel Finance': World's Largest Public Bank Ditches Oil and Coal
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-14
Environmentalist Bill McKibben called the decision a "truly amazing win." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/climate_strike_berlin_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/14/beginning-end-climate-wrecking-fossil-fuel-finance-worlds-largest-public-bank?cd-origin=rss

'Mother Nature Does a Mic Drop': Venice City Council Chamber Floods Minutes After Members Vote Down Climate Crisis Amendment
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-14
"From the 'you can't make this stuff up' department." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/venice_cc.png …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/14/mother-nature-does-mic-drop-venice-city-council-chamber-floods-minutes-after-members?cd-origin=rss

Fires driven by climate change are the 'new normal'
Duncan Roden | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-14
Climate change Jim McIlroyIssue 1245 Australia bushfiresNovember 14, 2019Harry Creamer, a leading environment activist from Port Macquarie on the NSW central-north coast and longstanding member of Climate Change Hastings, acted for most most of us on November 10 when he ga…
greenleft.org.au/content/fires-driven-climate-change-are-new-normal

Wednesday's Daily Brief: UN bid to aid diabetics, Israel-Gaza attacks, climate change in Nepal, Iraq envoy appeal to MPs
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-13
A recap of Wednesday's stories in brief: UN leads plan for insulin supply boosts; 'No justification' for Gaza border violence; Iraqis paying 'unthinkable price' in protests; $1.35 billion needed for Venezuela crisis; Record flooding affects 100,000 Nigerians.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051301

Montana's Radioactive Waste Legacy
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
One label Montana's Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock won't have to worry about being stuck with is "environmentalist." His outdated support for coal in the face of a global warming crisis and his "leadership" on the massive and ongoing deforestation of public lands under the phony rubric of the Bush-era "Healthy Forests Initiative" are bad enough.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/montanas-radioactive-waste-legacy/

Revealed: danger and squalor for cleaners who remove human waste by hand
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-13
The plight of sanitation workers in the developing world should be addressed urgently, the UN said on Thursday, warning that their rights, health and dignity are at risk.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051291

Over $39 million earmarked by UN-backed fund to combat effects of climate change in Nepal
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-13
More than $39 million in funding was approved on Wednesday for a project that will build resilience and mitigate the effects of climate change, benefitting nearly one million Nepalis, according to the Board of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund (GCF).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051281

Climate Confusion, Angst, and Sleeplessness
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-13
Climate change is a nagging issue for many people because it is so big, diverse, and overwhelming, as big as the planet itself. So, how to explain climate change? Sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and even anthropologists and economists have tackled the phenomenon of Climate Weltschmerz, meaning people experience angst as the enormity of climate change overrides …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/climate-confusion-angst-and-sleeplessness/

Venice Mayor Blames Climate Crisis for Historic Flooding
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-13
Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro expressed that the six feet of water that has flooded the city since Tuesday is not just "bad weather" but a climate emergency. | RELATED: | How Taricaya Turtles Try To Save the Amazon | The record water level, the highest in 50 years, led Brugnaro to ask Italy's government for assistance and to declare a state of emergency in the city after at least two people were reported dead in the flooding. | "These are the effects of climate change," the mayor tweeted. | Th…
telesurenglish.net/news/venice-mayor-blames-climate-crisis-for-historic-flooding–20191113-0022.html

The Trump Administration's Biggest Climate Lies
Naomi Oreskes | thenation.com | 2019-11-12
The Trump Administration's Biggest Climate Lies…
thenation.com/article/trump-climate-change-lies/

Everything So Far Has Failed: Why Exxon Mobil Is Being Taken to Court Over Climate Change
Ryan Devereaux | theintercept.com | 2019-11-12
A New York trial marks the first in a wave of court cases seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry to account for the climate emergency.
theintercept.com/2019/11/12/climate-exxon-mobil-new-york-court/

Six new books for ecosocialists
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-12
ecosocialism. books Ian AngusIssue 1247 AustraliaNovember 12, 2019Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at six books that belong on the bookshelf of ecosocialists. | *** | The Thinking Person's Guide To Climate Change | University…
greenleft.org.au/content/six-new-books-ecosocialists-2

Monday's Daily Brief: Guterres on Bolivia and multilateralism, Syria and Iraq's displaced, forest initiative, the healing arts
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-11
A recap of Monday's stories in brief: UN chief spotlights multilateralism at peace forum; Bolivian authorities must uphold safety of citizens; new programme to feed Kenya's children; experts concerned for detained in Syria and Iraq; UN forest management project fights climate crisis; and, from Warhol to the Wiggles — the role of art in keeping you healthy.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051111

US Policy: Global Climate Crisis Not Our Problem. Really?
William Boardman | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-11
By withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, the US is effectively saying the global climate crisis is not our problem. This is American exceptionalism run amok. The US acts as if it can opt-out of the only planet we have because, well, because we're special. This is not logical, this is not practical, this is …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/us-policy-global-climate-crisis-not-our-problem-really/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Environmental Justice, Shutting Down Pipelines, Capitalism & Billionaires
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-11
Six 2020 presidential candidates — Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, and Tom Steyer, Marianne Williamson, John Delaney and Joe Sestak — participated in the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on November 8. Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and former EPA official Mustafa Santiago Ali co-moderated the event, which took place at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. We air highlights of Warren speaking about the climate crisis, public health, shutting down pipelines, capitalism, the order of primary states and…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/11/elizabeth_warren_environmental_justice_amy_goodman

As bushfires unleash hell on Earth, we must talk about the climate crisis
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-11
Climate Pip HinmanIssue 1245 AustraliaNovember 11, 2019With all hell breaking loose as catastrophic fires ravage parts of New South Wales and Queensland, all Prime Minister Scott Morrison can advise is to pray. It's a poor excuse from a government that has criminally refused to take action on the climate crisis. | And the more politicians try…
greenleft.org.au/content/bushfires-unleash-hell-earth-we-must-talk-about-climate-crisis

Not creepy at all: GIANT Greta Thunberg mural to grace downtown San Francisco (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2019-11-09
A four-story mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg is set to be unveiled next week in San Francisco. Many, however, have already found the work unsettling, describing it as something straight out of a dystopian Sci-Fi movie. | The mural depicts the face of the 16-year-old media darling, gazing down at passersby on Union Square in San Francisco, with her signature tense expression. | Argentine artist Andreas Iglesias, who is putting the finishing touches on the massive work, said his ultimate goal is to raise awareness about climate issues. | "What I want from people is to realize [they] have to do something…
rt.com/usa/472997-greta-thunberg-mural-sf/

World in revolt: People rise up
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-08
People's movementsIssue 1244 World climate emergency student strike 4 climate Extinction RebellionNovember 8, 2019Across the globe, people are rising. | People's power moveme…
greenleft.org.au/content/world-revolt-people-rise

Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2019-11-07
Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
peaceaction.org/2019/11/07/take-action-some-actual-sane-legislation/

'This Is a Huge Opportunity to Create an Energy System Rooted in Climate Justice' – CounterSpin interview with Johanna Bozuwa on public utilities
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-11-07
Janine Jackson interviewed the Democracy Collaborative's Johanna Bozuwa about public utilities for the November 1, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/this-is-a-huge-opportunity-to-create-an-energy-system-rooted-in-climate-justice/

"The Pollinators": New Film Shows How Decline of Bee Colonies Could Mean Collapse of Food Chain
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-07
A documentary film "The Pollinators" tells the story of the world's yellow-black jacketed honey bees, whose existence may determine the future of human survival. The insects pollinate nearly all the fruits, vegetables and nuts we consume, and some experts estimate one out of every three bites of food we eat depends on the work of honey bees. However, the future of the insects is now in peril with widespread reports of bee colony collapses. In the last decade and a half, beekeepers have reported staggering declines in their bee populations due to pesticides, parasites and loss of habitat. Scientists warn climate c…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/7/the_pollinators_film_decline_of_bee