2020-02-02: Social Media Postees

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Climate Groups Target JPMorgan Chase "Money Pipeline"
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-02-02
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area and climate activists in SF financial district demonstration…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/31/18830264.php

Decolonization Is Essential to Successfully Resist Extractivism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-02
"Colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism are impacting people across the globe, both historically and in the contemporary moment," write Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, editors of Standing With Standing Rock: Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement. In this interview, Estes and Dhillon discuss how this collection situates the #NoDAPL movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline within a broader historical context [md…
truthout.org/articles/decolonization-is-essential-to-successfully-resist-extractivism/

Johnson's government must get its 'house in order' ahead of crucial climate talks
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-02
The eyes of the world will be on the UK

The Green New Deal Could Revolutionize Theater
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-02
The most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report gives humanity twelve years to curb greenhouse gas emissions, in order to keep temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Over 1.5 degrees and widespread climate disruptions–heatwaves, floods, fires, droughts, of the sort we see happening now–will intensify, adversely affecting everyone on the planet…
truthout.org/articles/the-green-new-deal-could-revolutionize-theater/

Bernie Sanders and Why Socialism Should Be Fun
Barbara Ehrenreich | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
Interview on why Sanders is her choice for 2020, the joys of radical politics and why there's no time to wait on capitalism to solve the climate crisis…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-endorsing-sanders-and-why-socialism-should-be-fun/

The Most We Can Do
George Monbiot | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
The appropriate response to the climate emergency is a legal duty to maximize climate action…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-most-we-can-do/

Is Your Rep Invested in Fossil Fuels?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-02
This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. | At least 100 members of the House of Representatives and their spouses own fossil fuel company stocks or mutual funds despite the conflicts of interest the investments pose for addressing climate change. | Use the interactive map below to see if your represen…
truthout.org/articles/is-your-rep-invested-in-fossil-fuels/

Descendants of extinct tortoise species found in Galapagos
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-02
Conservationists working around the largest volcano on the Galapagos Islands say they have found 30 giant tortoises partially descended from two extinct species, including that of the famed Lonesome George. | The Galapagos National Park and Galapagos Conservancy said that a young female has a direct line of descent from the Chelonoidis abingdonii species of Pinta Island. | The last of those tortoises was Lonesome George, who died in June 2012 and was believed to be more than 100 years old. | Another 11 males and 18 females were from the Chelonoidis niger line of Floreana Island. | The 45-member expedition was wor…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/02/02/descendants-of-extinct-tortoise-species-found-in-galapagos/

Time to juggle the groceries: Looming paper bag shortage shows you can't save the planet by banning plastic ones
rt.com | 2020-02-02
The plastic bag has become anathema to the effort of saving Mother Nature from humans' toxic ways. But humans are now being blindsided by a shortage of paper bags

Brexit-fuelled nationalism is only one step removed from fascism. It has to be confronted. Now
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-02-02
A poster, put up in a block of flats, told residents "we do not tolerate" people speaking languages other than English. A sign bearing the title "Happy Brexit Day" was found stuck to fire doors on Winchester Tower in Norwich on 31 January. The discovery came hours before the UK officially left the European Union. | But this is only one such incident in a climate of rising hate crime across the UK. | Brexit influenced: | Addressing Winchester Tower residents,…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/02/02/brexit-fuelled-nationalism-is-only-one-step-removed-from-fascism-it-has-to-be-confronted-now/

Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn
Neil deMause | commondreams.org | 2020-02-01
The media has changed its coverage of the climate crisis. (Photo: mrhyata/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/wasteland_0.jpg
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Critics: Trump EPA's formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human health indication of 'troubling allegiance' with Bayer/Monsanto
Eoin Higgins | nationofchange.org | 2020-02-01
"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
nationofchange.org/2020/02/01/critics-trump-epas-formal-assertion-glyphosate-poses-no-risk-to-human-health-indication-of-troubling-allegiance-with-bayer-monsanto/

Latest UN plan to address catastrophic decline in biodiversity–more empty platitudes
wsws.org | 2020-02-01
Earth faces the sixth mass extinction of life on the planet, and all the capitalist system can provide is another toothless document.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/01/biod-f01.html

Mexico Leads Greenhouse Tech Limiting Water Waste in Farming
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-31
Mexico has become a world leader in protected agriculture, using greenhouses and covering materials to grow tomatoes, peppers, and other crops and thereby combat ecosystem degradation. | RELATED: | FAO: Hunger Rises in Latin America, Affects 42.5 Million People | Ecosystem degradation and depletion from industrial agriculture – particularly evident in the northern part of Guanajuato. Fifty percent of that central Mexican state's overexploited 2,500 water wells – is a primary con…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Leads-Greenhouse-Tech-Limiting-Water-Waste-in-Farming-20200131-0009.html

Climate activists from Africa speak out about the marginalisation of African voices
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-31
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate and peers from other African nations have made an urgent appeal for the world to pay more attention to the continent that stands to suffer the most from climate breakdown despite contributing to it the least.The Fridays For Future movement and activist Greta Thunberg held a news conference with the activists in Sweden to spotlight the marginalisation of African voices."African activists are doing so much": Nakate

Suriname's climate promise, for a sustainable future
news.un.org | 2020-01-31
Suriname has become the second nation globally to outline updated plans to fight climate change in the hope of ensuring that any future increase in the temperature of the planet does not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn
Neil deMause | fair.org | 2020-01-31
While US media have indeed ramped up their coverage of the climate crisis, they continue to give short shrift to what are arguably the most important factors for determining our future: what specific human practices are responsible for the changing climate, why carbon emissions continue to rise, and what we can and should be doing about it.
fair.org/home/media-on-climate-crisis-dont-organize-mourn/

Union motion: Support real action on the climate
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate workers' rights & unionsIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Unionists active in the climate change movement have drafted the following model motion to help break the silence on the fact that the catastrophic bushfires are connected to climate change. | It also seeks to build support for the February 22 national day of action…
greenleft.org.au/content/union-motion-support-real-action-climate

Answering the Coalition's climate trickery
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate Andrea BuntingIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Following the recent bushfire crisis and the upsurge in climate concern, the federal Coalition wants to give the impression that it is acting on climate change. Andrea Bunting debunks 14 claims made by the Coalition government in an email sent to a constituent. | Claim 1: "We will be…
greenleft.org.au/content/answering-coalition-climate-trickery

Building a climate movement that can win
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate Sue BoltonIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Australia is burning and unless we all step up, it will continue to burn. While firefighters and emergency personnel and thousands upon thousands of ordinary people have stepped in to fill the breach, in the cities we too can play our part. | I am one of the initiators of a broad-based clim…
greenleft.org.au/content/building-climate-movement-can-win

What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2020-01-30
What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-refugees-borders/

How Australia could have already transitioned to 100% renewable energy
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-30
Climate Zane AlcornIssue 1251 Australia 100% renewable energyJanuary 30, 2020Released in 2010, The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan (ZCA2020)

Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-29
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to "the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/

Austria's Green-right alliance sells out migrants
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-29
climate justice immigration rights Jacob Andrewartha Margarita WindischIssue 1251 Austria Austrian Greens…
greenleft.org.au/content/austria-green-right-alliance-sells-out-migrants

Dystopia in the land of Oz: A climate change story
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-28
climate emergency Hans BaerIssue 1251 Australia ecosocialism bushfiresJanuary 28, 2020Climate scientists and other observers often refer to various regions, such as the Arctic, low-lying islands, the Ande…
greenleft.org.au/content/dystopia-land-oz-climate-change-story

Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-01-26
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to…
zcomm.org/zblogs/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/