EU Commission adopts law proposal for climate neutrality by 2050
rt.com | 2020-03-04
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…
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The Real Losers on Super Tuesday
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-03-04
Urgent Climate Action, Medicare for All, Anti-Plutocracy…
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The Call for an Extinction Rebellion
Christopher Ketcham | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-04
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.
counterpunch.org/2020/03/04/the-call-for-an-extinction-rebellion/

Westlands Water District signs permanent water contract with Bureau of Reclamation
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-03-04
"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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/03/18831275.php

Network News's Climate Disappearing Act–Will 2020 Be Different?
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-03-04
Network News's Climate Disappearing Act–Will 2020 Be Different?
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-journalism-2020-election/

Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg Delivers Speech to European Parliament – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-04
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.
sputniknews.com/europe/202003041078472238-environmental-activist-greta-thunberg-delivers-speech-to-european-parliament—video/

Climate activists target superannuation funds
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-04
Andrew ChuterIssue 1256 Australia mining UniSuper Market Forces WestConnex Sydney…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-activists-target-superannuation-funds

'Quiet Australians' organise for climate action
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-04
Climate crisis Susan PriceIssue 1256 Australia Extinction Rebellion Blacktown City Council ParramattaMarch 4, 2020…
greenleft.org.au/content/quiet-australians-organise-climate-action

Candidates Backed by Bloomberg Helped Pollute the Planet
Alex Kotch | commondreams.org | 2020-03-03
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 …
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Are Dems Rigging Things for Biden?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
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 …
globalresearch.ca/dems-rigging-things-biden/5705415

'Requiem: This Earth, Our Home': A high school chorus tackles climate change
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-03
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 …
peoplesworld.org/article/requiem-this-earth-our-home-a-high-school-chorus-tackles-climate-change/

To tackle climate catastrophe, our government must end the arms trade
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-03-03
An important new report calls on the government to end its focus on military power in order to deal with the climate crisis. On 3 March, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) will present the report to parliament. As the group notes, the UK government "spends more than twice as much on military" as it does on taking climate action. The report calls for a radical change in the way the government allocates money, in order to tackle climate crisis: "the most urgent threat to human security worldwide". |
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/03/03/to-tackle-climate-catastrophe-our-government-must-end-the-arms-trade/

To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
John Talberth | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-03
To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/03/to-save-our-climate-we-need-taller-trees-not-taller-wooden-buildings/

To tackle climate catastrophe, our government must end the arms trade
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-03-03
An important new report calls on the government to end its focus on military power in order to deal with the climate crisis. On 3 March, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) will present the report to parliament. As the group notes, the UK government "spends more than twice as much on military" as it does on taking climate action. The report calls for a radical change in the way the government allocates money, in order to tackle climate crisis: "the most urgent threat to human security worldwide". |
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/03/03/to-tackle-climate-catastrophe-our-government-must-end-the-arms-trade/

Could the climate crisis be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
There really is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/

Climate change and the class divide
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-29
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. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/29/climate-change-and-the-class-divide/

Don't forget the right-wing extremists in government
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-28
Green Left Peter BoyleIssue 1255 Australia anti-protest laws Extinction RebellionFebruary 28, 2020After Australian Security Intelligence Organisation chief Michael Burgess warned that right-win…
greenleft.org.au/content/dont-forget-right-wing-extremists-government

How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-27
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…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/27/climate_crisis_coronavirus_infections_disease_outbreaks

How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-27
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…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/27/climate_crisis_coronavirus_infections_disease_outbreaks

Blacktown Council declares climate emergency
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-27
Climate crisis Susan PriceIssue 1255 Australia BlacktownFebruary 27, 2020After a community campaign, Blacktown City Council, in Sydney's west, has become the latest local council to declare a climate emergency. | Activists from Cool Down Western Sydney organised p…
greenleft.org.au/content/blacktown-council-declares-climate-emergency

The climate crisis can't wait: 2050 is too late
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-27
Climate crisis Sam WainwrightIssue 1255 Australia net zero emissionsFebruary 27, 2020Imagine we are all passengers on a bus careering down a hill towards a cliff. The bus is getting faster and, despite our desperate pleas to the driver to change course, it cont…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-crisis-cant-wait-2050-too-late

Avoid the mistake of not planning the transition from coal
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-26
Climate crisis Workers & unions Steve O'BrienIssue 1255 Australia just transitions NewcastleFebruary 27, 2020I want to…
greenleft.org.au/content/avoid-mistake-not-planning-transition-coal

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.
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