Wells Fargo Hit By Climate Protest for Second Consecutive Day
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
Silicon Valley Environmental group holds "visitation" event at Mountain View branch.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/23/18830981.php
Stop Funding Climate Chaos! Big Banks Protest in San Anselmo
350Marin, Sunrise Movement, Sierra Club | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
Creek Park, 451 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, California 94960…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/23/18830955.php
Protesters in Silicon Valley Tell Wells Fargo "Quit the Dirty Energy Business"
Die-In Inside Bank Branch | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
Demonstrators called on Big Oil's largest lender, Wells Fargo, to halt its financing of fossil fuels and invest instead in clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. They took their protest of Feb 21 to a branch in Mountain View, CA.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/23/18830939.php
'Earthquakes in London': Aftershock of an epic play about climate change
Ed Rampell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-24
VENICE, Calif.–Rogue Machine's West Coast premiere of award-winning British playwright Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes in London is, according to the company's artistic director and the drama's co-director John Perrin Flynn, "quite simply, the best play I have read about global warming." This three hour-ish, UK-set tour-de-force takes a deep dive into the pressing subject of climate–as …
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Cut the Chase! Climate Action (Day 1 in Santa Cruz, CA)
Extinction Rebellion Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
730 Ocean St, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/22/18830905.php
Environmental Voter Guide. Democratic Candidates 2020
TCFBDAF | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund evaluated each candidate on four key environmental issue areas: | saving wildlife, protecting public lands, ensuring environmental justice and ending the climate crisis. | We evaluated every candidate polling above 1% in the latest national …
globalresearch.ca/environmental-voter-guide-us-2020-primary-elections/5704560
New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
Stephen Corry | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems
TheGreenNewCity March & Rally for Housing, Climate Justice and Animals
Direct Action Everywhere SF | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
Southwest of Golden Gate Fields, West of Gilman houseless encampment | (Golden Gate Fields horse track, 1100 Eastshore Hwy, Berkeley, CA 94710) | Marching to Berkeley City Hall, 2180 Milvia St, Berkeley, CA 94704…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/23/18830954.php
Demand to Stop Funding Climate Change at Wells Fargo Branch
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
Silicon Valley Climate Action Network occupies San Jose branch…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/23/18830960.php
TheGreenNewCity March & Rally for Housing, Climate Justice and Animals
Direct Action Everywhere SF | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
Southwest of Golden Gate Fields, West of Gilman houseless encampment | (Golden Gate Fields horse track, 1100 Eastshore Hwy, Berkeley, CA 94710) | Marching to Berkeley City Hall, 2180 Milvia St, Berkeley, CA 94704…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/23/18830954.php
Global Rescue Plan to Stop Mass Extinction "Hopelessly Weak and Inadequate"
commondreams.org | 2020-02-24
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/02/24/global-rescue-plan-stop-mass-extinction-hopelessly-weak-and-inadequate?cd-origin=rss
The Dangers of Synthetic Biology: A Biotech Firm Made a Smallpox-like Virus on purpose. Nobody Seems to Care
Prof. Gregory D. Koblentz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
In 2017, the virologist David Evans made headlines when he used synthetic biology to recreate the extinct horsepox virus, which is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, a disease eradicated in 1980. Evans and his team, ordering the | …
globalresearch.ca/biotech-firm-made-smallpox-like-virus-purpose/5704551
The problem with taking politics out of climate change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-24
Climate Jeff SparrowIssue 1255 Australia decarbonisationFebruary 24, 2020″Get the politics out of climate change." It's a slogan heard almost inevitably whenever discussion turns to the looming environmental catastrophe. | You can understand why, given the paralysis grippi…
greenleft.org.au/content/problem-taking-politics-out-climate-change
'Amazing News': Climate Activists Celebrate Victory After Forcing Company to Abandon Proposed Tar Sands Project
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-02-24
Climate campaigners celebrated a "momentous win" in Canada after Teck Resources on Sunday withdrew its application to build a tar sands mine in Alberta and the CEO admitted that because of "the growing debate" over fossil fuel use amid a climate crisis, "it is now evidence that there is no constructive path forward for the project." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11933186871.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/02/24/amazing-news-climate-activists-celebrate-victory-after-forcing-company-abandon?cd-origin=rss
Facing Undeniable Reality of Climate Change, Deniers Now Argue It's Not That Bad
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-23
Climate change denialism has a long history. Possibly the earliest clear example dates back to October 1959, when a researcher working for none other than Royal Dutch Shell published an article in The New Scientist. Acknowledging that a…
truthout.org/articles/facing-undeniable-reality-of-climate-change-deniers-now-argue-its-not-that-bad/
Climate change takes toll on Zimbabwe's natural habitat, UN deputy chief observes
news.un.org | 2020-02-23
Alongside the human population, Africa's animals are suffering greatly from the effects of climate change, which United Nations Deputy Secretary General Amina Mahommed saw first-hand on Sunday in Zimbabwe.
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Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies the Wrong Way Could End Up Hurting the Poor
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-23
Among progressives concerned about climate change, few issues provoke as much anger as the knowledge that governments continue to subsidize fossil fuels. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in 2017 these subsidies totaled $5.2 trillion annually. | Don't governments realize that fossil fuels are cooking the planet? The scientific community says we are in a desperate race against time, but the coal, oil, and gas companies apparently still have their noses deeply in the public…
truthout.org/articles/elite-led-efforts-to-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies-have-a-hidden-neoliberal-agenda/
Study: Twitter Bots Amplified Climate Denial Messages to Help Trump
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-22
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. | A new analysis of 6.5 million tweets from the days before and after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to ditch the Paris agreement in June 2017 suggests that automated Twitter bots are substantially contributing to the spread of online misinformation abou…
truthdig.com/articles/study-suggests-twitter-bots-amplified-climate-denial-messages/
10 species climate change could push to extinction
Tara Lohan and Dipika Kadaba | nationofchange.org | 2020-02-22
Species are finding less food, more competition for limited resources, or inhospitable conditions to which they can't adapt fast enough.
nationofchange.org/2020/02/22/10-species-climate-change-could-push-to-extinction/
Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-02-21
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
fair.org/home/paul-paz-y-mino-saqib-bhatti-beverly-bell-on-environmental-justice-cross-national-solidarity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paul-paz-y-mino-saqib-bhatti-beverly-bell-on-environmental-justice-cross-national-solidarity
Bloomberg is a Climate Change Con Man
Joshua Frank | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-21
It's an open secret in green circles that Michael Bloomberg is a climate change con man, and organizations like the Sierra Club that take hundreds of millions in donations from the former New York City mayor to fight coal, are complicit in his fraudulent scheme to coopt the climate change movement.
counterpunch.org/2020/02/21/bloomberg-is-a-climate-change-con-man/
Bloomberg is a Climate Change Con Man
Joshua Frank | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-21
It's an open secret in green circles that Michael Bloomberg is a climate change con man, and organizations like the Sierra Club that take hundreds of millions in donations from the former New York City mayor to fight coal, are complicit in his fraudulent scheme to coopt the climate change movement.
counterpunch.org/2020/02/21/bloomberg-is-a-climate-change-con-man/
Climate emergency demands system change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-21
Climate Socialist AllianceIssue 1254 Australia just transitionsFebruary 21, 2020The Socialist Alliance has been developing this charter for climate action since it…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-emergency-demands-system-change
60,000-Strong Fridays for Future Protest in Hamburg, Germany Prompts Question: 'Where Are You, USA?'
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-02-21
"What is it going to take for the U.S. to rise up like this?" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/hamburg-60000-fridays-future-greta-thunberg-us.jpg …
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JP Morgan Economists Warn of 'Catastrophic Outcomes' of Human-Caused Climate Crisis
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-02-21
Climate campaigners on Friday expressed hope that policymakers who are stalling on taking decisive climate action would reconsider their stance in light of new warnings from an unlikely source: two economists at J.P. Morgan Chase. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11836818612.jpg …
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"And Then Nothing. Silence"
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-20
If you were mad enough to judge the state of the world by the daily outpourings of 'mainstream' media, you would have no real understanding of the perilous state of the human race. Or, if you had concerns on seeing the latest news on climate breakdown, you would not be fully informed about the powerful …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/and-then-nothing-silence/
The climate crisis and the need for peace
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-20
war Climate Nick DeaneIssue 1254 Australia climate refugees weapons militaryFebruary 2…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-crisis-and-need-peace
Africa: A year of record climate disasters
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-18
Climate Nnimmo BasseyIssue 1254 Africa Paris agreement Climate DebtFebruary 18, 2020While the world literally burns from climate and political turmoil, it is possible for Africa and other vulnerable regions…
greenleft.org.au/content/africa-year-record-climate-disasters
National climate emergency summit showcases market wing of climate movement
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-17
climate emergency Hans A BaerIssue 1254 Australia fossil fuels just transitions MelbourneFebruary 17, 2020The 2020 National Cl…
greenleft.org.au/content/national-climate-emergency-summit-showcases-market-wing-climate-movement
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…
zcomm.org/zblogs/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/