Nearly 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street's Link to Climate Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-13
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as "Fire Drill Fridays," since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action t…
truthout.org/video/nearly-150-arrested-at-protests-exposing-wall-streets-link-to-climate-crisis/

"Stop the Money Pipeline": 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street's Link to Climate Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-13
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as "Fire Drill Fridays," since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action to thwart the climate crisis. Fonda then marched with supporters down Pennsylvania Avenue to a Chase Bank branch where en…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/jane_fonda_fire_drill_fridays_washington

UK home secretary defends Extinction Rebellion's inclusion on terror list, after group judged to promote 'extremist ideology'
rt.com | 2020-01-13
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended anti-terror police for placing Extinction Rebellion (XR), the climate change protest group, on a list of extremist ideologies, saying it's right to look at "a range of security threats." | In an interview with LBC radio on Monday, Patel accepted that the environmental group was not a terrorist organization, but the decision to put XR on the UK terror list was made "in terms of risk to the public, security risks, security threats." | That is based on information from the police, and various intelligence that we will receive. That's the proper thing to do. | XR came to…
rt.com/uk/478132-patel-extinction-rebellion-terror/

Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-13
Cocooned as it is from the world of science scepticism, the handling of the bush fire catastrophe unfolding in Australia is going to one of the more notable (non)achievements of the Morrison government. They were warned; they were chided; they were prodded. But the measures lagged and the flames came. To a certain extent, this…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/13/incendiary-extinctions-australian-fires-and-the-species-effect/

Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-13
Cocooned as it is from the world of science scepticism, the handling of the bush fire catastrophe unfolding in Australia is going to one of the more notable (non)achievements of the Morrison government. They were warned; they were chided; they were prodded. But the measures lagged and the flames came. To a certain extent, this…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/13/incendiary-extinctions-australian-fires-and-the-species-effect/

Australian PM declares "new normal" of climate disasters
wsws.org | 2020-01-13
Morrison's performance was a desperate attempt at political damage control, combined with an effort to exploit the bushfire disaster to boost the "emergency" powers of the armed forces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/13/morr-j13.html

How Rising Temperatures Increase the Likelihood of Nuclear War
Michael T. Klare | thenation.com | 2020-01-13
How Rising Temperatures Increase the Likelihood of Nuclear War…
thenation.com/article/nuclear-defense-climate-change/

We should be outraged that the police listed Extinction Rebellion as extremists. But we shouldn't be surprised
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-12
Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) hit the headlines on 10 January after the police included it as an extremist ideology in its guide to "Safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism". | But while it's outrageous that a nonviolent group focussed on saving the planet from the climate crisis is listed as an extremist threat, we shouldn't be surprised. Because this is exactly how the police treat pro…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/01/12/we-should-be-outraged-that-the-police-listed-extinction-rebellion-as-extremists-but-we-shouldnt-be-surprised/

We should be outraged that the police listed Extinction Rebellion as extremists. But we shouldn't be surprised
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-12
Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) hit the headlines on 10 January after the police included it as an extremist ideology in its guide to "Safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism". | But while it's outrageous that a nonviolent group focussed on saving the planet from the climate crisis is listed as an extremist threat, we shouldn't be surprised. Because this is exactly how the police treat pro…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/01/12/we-should-be-outraged-that-the-police-listed-extinction-rebellion-as-extremists-but-we-shouldnt-be-surprised/

Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-01-12
asia-pacificresearch.com/fires-species-effect/5629014

Sir David Attenborough to speak about the climate crisis at charity dinner
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-12
Sir David Attenborough has been announced as the guest speaker at a charity dinner hosted by Sir Tom Hunter. | The broadcaster and naturalist will attend the event at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh next month. | Businessman and philanthropist Hunter said: The climate crisis is one of the greatest threats to the future of our society, so what better guest to welcome to Scotland than Sir David Attenborough? | All funds raised will go to charities chosen by The Hunter Foundation, which is also hosting a competition offering secondary school pupils the chance to win a table for their school at the dinner…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/01/12/sir-david-attenborough-to-speak-about-the-climate-crisis-at-charity-dinner/

Sir David Attenborough to speak about the climate crisis at charity dinner
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-12
Sir David Attenborough has been announced as the guest speaker at a charity dinner hosted by Sir Tom Hunter. | The broadcaster and naturalist will attend the event at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh next month. | Businessman and philanthropist Hunter said: The climate crisis is one of the greatest threats to the future of our society, so what better guest to welcome to Scotland than Sir David Attenborough? | All funds raised will go to charities chosen by The Hunter Foundation, which is also hosting a competition offering secondary school pupils the chance to win a table for their school at the dinner…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/01/12/sir-david-attenborough-to-speak-about-the-climate-crisis-at-charity-dinner/

"Sweden does not constitute an example of 'welfarism' or the success of social democracy"
Muhammed Shabeer | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-12
Politics in Scandinavian countries has been a subject of great interest to political and social analysts due to several factors, including the comparatively better living standards, the policies of social welfare, and relatively lesser political violence. However, Scandinavian politics is undergoing a challenging period, with the countries of the region dealing with austerity, the climate emergency and the rise of hyper-nationalism. Peoples Dispatch (PD) spoke to Andreas Sà∂rensen, Chairman of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) regarding the recent trends in Swedish polity, characteristics of the current go…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/12/sweden-does-not-constitute-an-example-of-welfarism-or-the-success-of-social-democracy/

The Limits of Capitalism
Laurie E. Adkin | zcomm.org | 2020-01-12
The UN predicts that there will be 200 million climate refugees by 2050…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-limits-of-capitalism/

Climate Activists Can't Afford to Ignore Labor. A Shuttered Refinery in Philly Shows Why
Mindy Isser | commondreams.org | 2020-01-11
In the early morning hours of June 21, 2019, a catastrophic explosion tore through the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) oil refinery in the southwest section of Philadelphia.
commondreams.org/views/2020/01/11/climate-activists-cant-afford-ignore-labor-shuttered-refinery-philly-shows-why?cd-origin=rss

Mega Droughts Engulf Countries
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-11
Throughout the world, mega droughts are hitting hard with a ferocity not seen in decades and in some cases not seen in centuries. It's not merely coincidental that as global warming accelerates droughts turn more vicious than ever before. All of which begs the logical question of when will world leaders wake up with a …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/mega-droughts-engulf-countries/

Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-11
Cocooned as it is from the world of science scepticism, the handling of the bush fire catastrophe unfolding in Australia is going to one of the more notable (non)achievements of the Morrison government. They were warned; they were chided; they were prodded. But the measures lagged and the flames came. To a certain extent, this …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/incendiary-extinctions-australian-fires-and-the-species-effect/

Climate scientist: I witnessed Australia on fire. Climate change is already here
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-11
Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity this holiday season to vacation in Australia with my family. We went to see the Great Barrier Reef–one of the great wonders of this planet–while we still can. Subject to the twin assaults of warming-caused bleaching and ocean acidification, it will be gone in a […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/11/climate-scientist-i-witnessed-australia-on-fire-climate-change-is-already-here/

Climate scientist: I witnessed Australia on fire. Climate change is already here
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-11
Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity this holiday season to vacation in Australia with my family. We went to see the Great Barrier Reef–one of the great wonders of this planet–while we still can. Subject to the twin assaults of warming-caused bleaching and ocean acidification, it will be gone in a […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/11/climate-scientist-i-witnessed-australia-on-fire-climate-change-is-already-here/

South Australia's response to the death of over a billion of its animals is beyond disturbing
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-01-11
The price non-human animals pay for homo sapiens' recklessness is incredibly apparent in Australia right now. | Wildfires have ravaged the country since September 2019, due in no small part to the human-induced climate crisis. At least 26 people have died in the avoidable tragedy. But compare…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/01/11/south-australias-response-to-the-death-of-over-a-billion-of-its-animals-is-beyond-disturbing/

Climate movement targets Wall Street to stop driving fossil fuel industry's expansion
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-11
It's no secret that the driving force behind the fossil fuel industry's expansion is the financial industry. But the nation's leading climate movement launched a new mobilization to pressure Wall Street to stop financing fossil fuels. Stop the Money Pipeline is a coalition of some of the nation's leading climate, youth and indigenous organizations and …
nationofchange.org/2020/01/11/climate-movement-targets-wall-street-to-stop-driving-fossil-fuel-industrys-expansion/

Common Dreams Mourns Passing of Longtime Contributor and Climate Activist John Atcheson
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-11
"We can leave a legacy of a world in which hope flourishes and dreams prosper, or we can leave a legacy in which hopes are diminished and most dreams are nightmares," Atcheson once wrote. "Those are now our choices. Our only choices." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/john_atcheson.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/11/common-dreams-mourns-passing-longtime-contributor-and-climate-activist-john-atcheson?cd-origin=rss

'We are the woke': Joaquin Phoenix joins Jane Fonda at DC climate protest, to preach about meat & dairy and flight-shame himself
rt.com | 2020-01-10
The Friday climate change protest in Washington, DC included crowds marching on Capitol Hill and chanting things like, "the waters are rising and so are we" and "Australia is burning and so are we." Police were present. | Celebrities like Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix headlined the protest, which was part of the Friday Fire Drills, originally inspired by teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg. | "Fire drill Fridays call for fast action on the Green New Deal and an end to all fossil fuel exploration, extraction and taxpayer subsidies to oil companies," a notice for the protest read. | 'Joker' star Phoenix…
rt.com/usa/477971-joaquin-phoenix-climate-protest/

'We are the woke': Joaquin Phoenix joins Jane Fonda at DC climate protest, to preach about meat & dairy and flight-shame himself
rt.com | 2020-01-10
The Friday climate change protest in Washington, DC included crowds marching on Capitol Hill and chanting things like, "the waters are rising and so are we" and "Australia is burning and so are we." Police were present. | Celebrities like Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix headlined the protest, which was part of the Friday Fire Drills, originally inspired by teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg. | "Fire drill Fridays call for fast action on the Green New Deal and an end to all fossil fuel exploration, extraction and taxpayer subsidies to oil companies," a notice for the protest read. | 'Joker' star Phoenix…
rt.com/usa/477971-joaquin-phoenix-climate-protest/

Mega Droughts Engulf Countries
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-10
Throughout the world, mega droughts are hitting hard with a ferocity not seen in decades and in some cases not seen in centuries. It's not merely coincidental that as global warming accelerates droughts turn more vicious than ever before. All of which begs the logical question of when will world leaders wake up with a…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/mega-droughts-engulf-countries/

The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-10
The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a climate catastrophe and the threat of a nuclear war extinguishing our civilization. The U.S. has pulled out of the Paris Agreement and is wrecker-in-chief of the weak climate change agreement that all the countries had signed to limit the emission of…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/the-current-u-s-approach-to-nuclear-weapons-can-only-lead-to-armageddon/

Mega Droughts Engulf Countries
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-10
Throughout the world, mega droughts are hitting hard with a ferocity not seen in decades and in some cases not seen in centuries. It's not merely coincidental that as global warming accelerates droughts turn more vicious than ever before. All of which begs the logical question of when will world leaders wake up with a…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/mega-droughts-engulf-countries/

China mourns native paddlefish after scientists declare it extinct
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-10
People in China have been lamenting the demise of the Chinese paddlefish after scientists declared it extinct in a research paper. | Chinese internet users and media outlets have been paying tribute to the hefty creature, whose sharp, protruding snout made it one of the largest freshwater species in the world. | "It's farewell at first sight," said China Youth Daily, noting that many were lamentably unfamiliar with the paddlefish before learning of its demise. | Users shared similar sentiments on the Twitter-like Weibo platform. | Named after its distinctive shape, the Chinese paddlefish, or Chinese swordfish, ha…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/01/10/china-mourns-native-paddlefish-after-scientists-declare-it-extinct/

Environmental groups outraged at Trump's proposed rollback of infrastructure review
Olivia Rosane | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-10
President Donald Trump proposed one of his most aggressive environmental rollbacks yet on Thursday, announcing a change that would exempt federal agencies from considering the climate impacts of pipelines and other infrastructure projects. The president's proposal would significantly limit enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which mandates that federal agencies consider how proposed construction projects like pipelines, highways and …
peoplesworld.org/article/environmental-groups-outraged-at-trumps-proposed-rollback-of-infrastructure-review/

Australia's Decade of Burning Environmental Apathy
Edward Cavanough | thenation.com | 2020-01-10
Australia's Decade of Burning Environmental Apathy…
thenation.com/article/australia-fires-climate-morrison/

Inaction over climate emergency 'not an option' says UN Assembly chief
news.un.org | 2020-01-10
Inaction when it comes to the fight back against damaging climate change is not an option, the President of the UN General Assembly told a major energy conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1055171

Australia's Decade of Burning Environmental Apathy
Edward Cavanough | thenation.com | 2020-01-10
Australia's Decade of Burning Environmental Apathy…
thenation.com/article/australia-fires-climate-morrison/

What if Australia Were Its Own Planet?
Bill McKibben | thenation.com | 2020-01-09
What if Australia Were Its Own Planet?
thenation.com/article/australia-fire-climate-change/

Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won't Save You From It
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-09
Climate scientist Michael Mann is in Australia, where the bushfire crisis is unfolding in real time. He says voters there need to look for 'climate hawks' who can counteract the climate-denying policies of politicians like current prime minister Scott Morrison.
therealnews.com/stories/australia-fire-denying-climate-change-wont-save-you

Greta Thunberg's radical response to a strange world
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-08
Climate change books Jay LarbalestierIssue 1248 Australia Greta ThunbergJanuary 8, 2020No One is Too Small to Make a Difference | By Greta Thunberg | Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2019 | On August…
greenleft.org.au/content/greta-thunbergs-radical-response-strange-world

Seven new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-08
ecosocialism books Ian AngusIssue 1248 Australia ecosocialist bookshelfJanuary 8, 2020Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at seven new titles for an ecosocialist bookshelf. | *** | …
greenleft.org.au/content/seven-new-books-ecosocialist-bookshelf

25 People and 1 Billion Animals Are Dead from Australia's Bushfires
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-07
Australia's climate-denying prime minister has already called in emergency responders to battle the wildfire crisis. But fire season hasn't peaked yet, and scientists are warning that the country's own policies are part of the feedback loop driving their unprecedented crisis.
therealnews.com/columns/25-people-and-1-billion-animals-are-dead-from-australias-bushfires

Vigil calls for action on fire emergency
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-07
climate emergency Jim McIlroyIssue 1248 Australia bushfires firefighters SydneyJanuary 7, 2020Around 100 people formed a circle at the Q…
greenleft.org.au/content/vigil-calls-action-fire-emergency

Eyewitness: East Gippsland burns
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-06
climate emergency Alan BroughtonIssue 1248 Australia bushfires East Gippsland East GippslandJanuary 7, 2020East Gippsland i…
greenleft.org.au/content/eyewitness-east-gippsland-burns

Firefighter: 'We are being kicked in the teeth by government'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-06
climate emergencyIssue 1248 Australia bushfires climate changeJanuary 7, 2020As the catastrophic fires raged over several states from late December into early January, Green Left's Pip Hinman asked Shaun McDonald, a professional firefighter currently based in Tasmania about…
greenleft.org.au/content/firefighter-we-are-being-kicked-teeth-government

'We Have to Bust In and Insist That Power Be Shared in a Different Kind of Way' – Best of CounterSpin 2019
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-01-05
The December 27, 2019, episode of CounterSpin was the Best of CounterSpin 2019–featuring excerpts of Janine Jackson's interviews with Carey Gillam on Monsanto's manipulation of science, Arun Gupta on normalizing concentration camps, Sasha Abramsky on…
fair.org/home/we-have-to-bust-in-and-insist-that-power-be-shared-in-a-different-kind-of-way/

"This Country Is a Tinderbox": Australia Braces for More Devastation as Gov't Denies Climate Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-03
Australia is bracing for what is expected to be the worst weekend yet in an already devastating climate-fueled wildfire season that has ravaged the southeastern part of the country, killed at least 18 people and nearly half a billion animals, and destroyed 14.5 million acres of land. As thousands of evacuees fled to the beaches, conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing growing outrage for his inaction on climate and close ties with the coal industry. As fires blazed in December, the prime minister went on a holiday to Hawaii. He told reporters this week that fighting the fires

Farewell to Australian hero Bill Ryan 1922–2019
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-12-28
obituary David LoweIssue 1248 Australia coal seam gas Environment climate emergencyDecember 28, 2019One of Australia's foremost env…
greenleft.org.au/content/farewell-australian-hero-bill-ryan-1922%E2%80%932019

Climate Conference Was a Great Success–for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
David Kupfer | progressive.org | 2019-12-27
Despite growing evidence of global climate disruption, little was accomplished beyond a watered-down text that kicks most of the big issues down the road.
progressive.org/dispatches/climate-conference-was-a-great-success-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry-kupfer-191227/