2020-02-11: Social Media Postees

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Hundreds injured in Beirut clashes as new Lebanon govt seeks vote of confidence
rt.com | 2020-02-11
Hundreds were injured in Beirut on Tuesday in clashes between security forces and protesters who rejected the new government as it sought to win a parliamentary vote of confidence. | Riot police fired tear gas at protesters seeking to block MPs from reaching the heavily barricaded parliament, Reuters reports. The Lebanese Red Cross said it treated 373 people for injuries, taking 45 of them to hospital. | Lebanon is facing an unprecedented financial crisis rooted in decades of state waste and corruption which have fuelled public anger. Parliament speaker Nabih Berri was quoted as saying that Lebanon should seek…
rt.com/newsline/480588-beirut-lebanon-clashes-parliament/

Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored
Guy R. McPherson | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-11
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Climate Is on the Ballot in New Hampshire
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-02-11
Climate Is on the Ballot in New Hampshire…
thenation.com/article/politics/climate-crisis-new-hampshire/

Clean Economy Act Fails to Fully Confront the Climate Crisis
commondreams.org | 2020-02-11
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Berkeley Screening Of "Fukushima Speaks" By Journalist and Videographer Toshikuni Doi'
No Nukes Action | indybay.org | 2020-02-11
Berkeley Main Library | 2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/11/18830602.php

Social Media Abuzz Amid Report Greta Thunberg Will Be Featured in BBC Documentary Series
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-11
The climate activist's life is like a bizarre reality show, including her scolding world leaders, getting criticism from some powerful people, including Donald Trump, and travel struggles. After amassing 4 million Twitter followers and inspiring hundreds of thousands to protest, Thunberg may now also get to win over a TV audience.
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Will the apocalyptic bushfires be a turning point in Australia's climate emergency?
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-11
bushfires Climate change Pip HinmanIssue 1253 Australia Australia's bushfire crisis climate emergencyFebruary 11…
greenleft.org.au/content/will-apocalyptic-bushfires-be-turning-point-australia-climate-emergency

How climate change is driving food insecurity
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-11
Food security Pat BrewerIssue 1253 Australia East Africa desert locustsFebruary 11, 2020Along with extreme fires, a feature of a rapidly changing climate, Australia is experiencing droughts, floods, and…
greenleft.org.au/content/how-climate-change-driving-food-insecurity

Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux
Leo Zeilig | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE's Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/climate-change-and-rebellion-an-interview-with-john-molyneux/

Youth Climate Activists Occupy BlackRock in Paris, 17 Arrested
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-10
About a hundred of climate activists invaded United States asset manager BlackRock's office in central Paris Monday, calling for the fund to pull out of fossil fuel investments. | RELATED: | Argentina's Antarctic Base Records Hottest Temperature Ever | Green activists ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äãmanaged to enter the building and to reach the fourth floor – mostly students from high…
telesurenglish.net/news/Youth-Climate-Activists-Occupy-BlackRock-in-Paris-17-Arrested-20200210-0021.html

Climate Manipulation and Murdoch's PR Machine
Thomas Klikauer | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Western democracies and their respected societies appear to be incapable or unwilling of solving global warming. At least partly, this might be because voters in most countries have been lied to by the corporate media for decades on end. Much of this is due to one very rich and very old man

Climate crisis: Antarctic continent posts record temperature reading of 18.3 ∞C
news.un.org | 2020-02-07
Fresh fears of accelerating damage to the planet's ice sheets and sea level rise have been fuelled by confirmation from the UN's weather agency that the Antarctic likely saw a new temperature record of more than 18 ∞C on Thursday.
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Animal Justice Party's attempt to hijack climate movement rejected
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate Jacob Andrewartha Sue BoltonIssue 1252 Australia MelbourneFebruary 7, 2020Animal rights activist in Melbourne have harmed the climate movement and their own cause by attempting to stack mee…
greenleft.org.au/content/animal-justice-party-attempt-hijack-climate-movement-rejected

Rebuilding resilient communities amid climate-induced drought and bushfires
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate Elena GarciaIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020The federal government is pouring billions of dollars into its attempts to deal with the worst impacts of a climate crisis it prefers to ignore. But this money will never achieve its stated aim nor reach those who need it most. | The federal Coalition government's Drought Response, Resil…
greenleft.org.au/content/rebuilding-resilient-communities-amid-climate-induced-drought-and-bushfires

Communities left financially devastated in wake of bushfires
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate Graham MatthewsIssue 1252 Australia bushfiresFebruary 7, 2020The bushfires that have torn through the south coast of New South Wales and Ea…
greenleft.org.au/content/communities-left-financially-devastated-wake-bushfires

Extreme weather demands better working conditions
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
workers' rights and unions Climate Leo CrnogorcevicIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020Faced with a still-unfolding summer from hell, in which catastrophic bushfires have caused 34 deaths, destroyed 11 million hectares of land and wiped out more than a…
greenleft.org.au/content/extreme-weather-demands-better-working-conditions

Blaming overpopulation lets climate criminals off the hook
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate refugee rights Chloe DSIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020The burden of responsibility for the climate crisis is often placed on poorer nations. But the reality is that the main culprits continue to be the rich and powerful 1%. | Within the climate movement, some sec…
greenleft.org.au/content/blaming-overpopulation-lets-climate-criminals-hook

NSW-federal energy deal a con job
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-06
Climate Margaret GleesonIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 6, 2020Prime Minister Scott Morrison's energy deal with the New South Wales government seeks to benefit fossil fuel company Santos

Climate crisis: Join the February 22 national day of action
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-05
ClimateIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 5, 2020The following statement was released by various organisations calling for a national day of action to demand climate action on February 22. | *** | 2019 was the year the climate crisis became impossible to ignore for millions. School strikers mobilised in their hundreds of thousands in Australia and inspired workers and other adults to rise up against the Morrison governmen…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-crisis-join-february-22-national-day-action

What Will it Take to Prevent Climate Collapse?
Brian Tokar | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
Perhaps we can even begin to realize the dream of a liberated and truly interdependent global community of communities. The future of life on earth may depend on our ability to do just that…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/what-will-it-take-to-prevent-climate-collapse/

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…
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