(2020-03-04). EU Commission adopts law proposal for climate neutrality by 2050. rt.com 
The EU Commission has adopted a proposal for a European "climate law" to make the bloc's 2050 net zero emissions target legally binding. The regulation, which requires approval from parliament and member states, would commit the EU to reducing its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. | The draft law enshrines the EU plan to achieve "climate neutrality by 2050," Elisa Ferreira, the commissioner in charge of supporting poorer regions of the bloc, tweeted on Wednesday. | Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and NGOs said more urgent action was needed. Thunberg, 17, said the law fails to address the next 10 ye…
(2020-03-04). 'Greta Thunberg is a nice girl, but she's spewing unjustified panic' — 'anti-Greta' Naomi Seibt to RT. rt.com 
The media have invented the 'anti-Greta' label to portray her as an "evil Right antichrist," but it only attracted more people to her ideas, Naomi Seibt, who says the human effect on climate change is vastly exaggerated, told RT. | Seibt calls herself a "climate realist" and bluntly rejects the term "climate change denier," which is another label, used to describe her and her supporters by the opposing side. It implies that "we're just selfish and ignorant," but it's not the case, she pointed out. | "We're about being scientific sceptics and looking into more sensible ways to improve the environment to be more…
(2020-03-04). Warren & Bloomberg lost big on Democrats' Super Tuesday — or did they? rt.com 
President Donald Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg as the biggest losers of the Super Tuesday Democrat primaries, as it increasingly seemed he would face either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders come November. | Trump first turned his Twitter guns on Bloomberg, whom he has dubbed "Mini Mike," declaring that political consultants took his fellow New York billionaire for a ride and wasted some $700 million with nothing to show for it — aside from the derogatory nickname and a "complete destruction of his reputation," anyway. | The biggest loser tonight, by far, is Mini Mike Bloomberg. His "polit…
(2020-03-04). The Call for an Extinction Rebellion. counterpunch.org 
In the age of coming climate apocalypse, the narcissistic self-regard of humans in their exploitive relationship with the natural world is so disgusting, so utterly reprehensible, so vain and vacuous and unworthy of intelligent beings that it makes me want to repudiate humanism altogether and call for humans to be wiped off the goddamn planet.
(2020-03-04). Westlands Water District signs permanent water contract with Bureau of Reclamation. indybay.org "At a time of unprecedented climate changes and droughts we should not be circumventing the law and promising by federal contract far more water than actually exists to one large irrigation group at the expense of others," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta.
(2020-03-04). Network News's Climate Disappearing Act—Will 2020 Be Different? thenation.com Network News's Climate Disappearing Act—Will 2020 Be Different?
(2020-03-04). Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg Delivers Speech to European Parliament – Video. sputniknews.com In 2018, Thunberg left school to pursue environmental activism. She has since organised numerous protests in Sweden, including in front of the Swedish Parliament, urging students to skip school every Friday in order to protest against climate change.
(2020-03-04). 'Quiet Australians' organise for climate action. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-03-04). Eight new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf. greenleft.org.au 
By John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark
| Monthly Review Press, 2020 | Foster and Clark examine how capitalism plunders nature…
(2020-03-04). Climate activists target superannuation funds. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-03-03). 'Requiem: This Earth, Our Home': A high school chorus tackles climate change. peoplesworld.org 
VAN NUYS, Calif.—A requiem is the Latin mass for the dead. High school students at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley know perfectly well the Earth is not dead. Yet. But the way things are going…. Requiem: This Earth, Our Home is the latest entry in the catalogue of works created …
(2020-03-03). Candidates Backed by Bloomberg Helped Pollute the Planet. commondreams.org Greenpeace gave Bloomberg's campaign climate plan a C+ rating. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bloomberg_2.jpeg …
(2020-03-03). Are Dems Rigging Things for Biden? globalresearch.ca The hugely corrupted US political process is too debauched to fix, ordinary Americans with no say over how they're governed. | Elections when held are political theater. Back-room deal-making decides things, not voters. | Going to the polls is a waste of …
(2020-03-03). To tackle climate catastrophe, our government must end the arms trade. thecanary.co An important new
(2020-03-03). After the rain, water is still being stolen. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-02-29). Climate change and the class divide. mronline.org 
No, we're not all in it together. Our rulers are responsible for the system that's creating an ecological catastrophe. As that crisis intensifies, it's exposing and intensifying the divide between us and them. |
(2020-02-27). How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common. democracynow.org 
Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond." Her new book is titled "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more common, with the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely. Her latest article, published in The Nation, is titled "Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Th…
(2020-02-27). Blacktown Council declares climate emergency. greenleft.org.au 
Activists from Cool Down Western Sydney organised p…
(2020-02-27). The climate crisis can't wait: 2050 is too late. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
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.
(2020-01-26). Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"? zcomm.org 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
(2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org 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, …