Contaminated water at nuclear plant still an issue ahead of Tokyo Olympics
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-10
Work to deal with contaminated water at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant continues as the Olympic Games approach.Inside a giant decontamination facility at the destroyed plant, workers in hazmat suits monitor radioactive water pumped from three damaged reactors.The decontamination process is a key element of a contentious debate over what should be done with the nearly 1.2 million tons of still-radioactive water being closely watched by governments and organisations around the world ahead of this summer's Tokyo Olympics.The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, says it needs to free up sp…
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"Even a Fox News Audience Agrees": Sanders Rebuts Claims His Views Are "Extreme"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-10
During a Fox News town hall Monday night in Dearborn, Michigan on the eve of the state's crucial Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case that
Japanese PM Abe & Capitalist Governments Helped Escalate Coronavirus Epidemic
Organizing Committee of March 11 Anti-Nuclear | indybay.org | 2020-03-10
The Organizing Committee of March 11 Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima Action has warned that the Coronavirus outbreak is a man made disaster which is being used by the reactionary Abe government to prevent mass testing of the population. It has also stopped testing the people of Fukushima.
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Climate Movement Needs to Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs
Jane McAlevey | zcomm.org | 2020-03-10
Source: The Intercept The 2020 election is the first presidential race with climate at its center. Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the Read…
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Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-03-10
The judge ruled that the potential environmental and public health impacts of the pipeline
Seabird numbers decline as climate breakdown bites, experts warn
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-10
Many seabirds are struggling in the face of food shortages and storms brought on by climate breakdown, conservationists have warned.The warning comes as the latest report on breeding seabirds from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee reveals significant declines in species such as Arctic skuas, kittiwakes and northern fulmars in the past two decades.Numbers of black legged kittiwakes are estimated to have halved since 2000, when the last major census of breeding seabirds took place, while Arctic skuas are down 70% and northern fulmars are down 36…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/03/10/seabird-numbers-decline-as-climate-breakdown-bites-experts-warn/
Farmers say fight climate change by investing in sustainable family agriculture
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-10
The following op-ed is based on an open letter from National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), whose vision of agriculture is one where a safe, nutritious, ample, and affordable food supply is produced by a legion of family farmers who make a decent living pursuing their trade, while protecting the environment, and contributing to the strength …
peoplesworld.org/article/farmers-say-fight-climate-change-by-investing-in-sustainable-family-agriculture/
CalGEM prerulemaking hearing about the health harms of fossil fuel extraction
Climate health now | indybay.org | 2020-03-10
Greenlining Institute, | 360 14th St., Oakland‚Äã, ca…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/07/18831356.php
What Does Work Look Like on a Dying Planet?
Ilana Cohen | thenation.com | 2020-03-10
Students, promised a bright and successful future after college, are being fast-tracked into corporate careers, usually without a second thought about the value of their work in a climate emergency.
thenation.com/article/society/what-does-work-look-like-on-a-dying-planet/
Global Warming on a Rampage
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-10
Global warming is not waiting around for the signatories to the Paris climate accord '15 to go to net zero emissions 2030/50. Sorry, those bold plans are way too little way too late. Already, across the board, the planet is on a hot streak that defies all projections. It's starting to look downright scary! Listen…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/10/global-warming-on-a-rampage/
Watsonville Youth Rally
Regeneration-Pájaro Valley Climate Action | indybay.org | 2020-03-10
Watsonville Plaza | 350 Main St, Watsonville…
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Global Warming on a Rampage
Robert Hunziker | zcomm.org | 2020-03-10
The year 2019 is the 43rd consecutive year, since 1977, with both land and ocean temperatures above the global 20th century average…
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Speaker Series: The Edge of Extinction
Watsonville Wetlands Watch | indybay.org | 2020-03-10
Watsonville Wetlands Watch | 500 Harkins Slough Rd, Watsonville…
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Chernobyl to Katrina: Pundits scramble to compare Trump's handling of coronavirus to previous catastrophes
rt.com | 2020-03-09
Media are comparing US President Donald Trump's (mis)handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic to high-profile historical disasters, from the Chernobyl nuclear accident to Hurricane Katrina…and even the fall of Rome. | Pundits eager to see the end of Trump have rushed to compare what they view as his failure to properly deal with the coronavirus outbreak to legendary disasters from recent and ancient history, regardless of how well those disasters reflect current events. | The president himself retweeted a meme that was quickly interpreted as comparing himself to Emperor Nero, who supposedly fiddled whil…
rt.com/usa/482683-trump-katrina-chernobyl-media-coronavirus/
Climate activism for the new decade
Alfons Pérez | zcomm.org | 2020-03-09
The fight against global warming has entered a new phase. What strategies will help us halt catastrophe?
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Global Warming on a Rampage
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-06
Global warming is not waiting around for the signatories to the Paris climate accord '15 to go to net zero emissions 2030/50. Sorry, those bold plans are way too little way too late. Already, across the board, the planet is on a hot streak that defies all projections. It's starting to look downright scary! Listen… …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/global-warming-on-a-rampage/
Rebels continue disruptions
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-05
Climate crisis Zebedee ParkesIssue 1256 Australia Extinction Rebellion climate emergencyMarch 5, 2020Extinction Rebellion activists are continuing to cause disruption around Australia.
greenleft.org.au/content/rebels-continue-disruptions
The case for ecosocialism
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-05
Socialism Peter Boyle Pip HinmanIssue 1256 Australia ecosocialism climate crisisMarch 5, 2020If there is one thing the recent unprec…
greenleft.org.au/content/the-case-for-ecosocialism
Minnesota to protest Vice President Pence appearance
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-04
St. Paul, MN – The Anti-War Committee is joining with the Climate Justice Committee to unwelcome Vice President Mike Pence when he comes to Saint Paul, 5 p.m., March 5, at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront, 11 E Kellogg Boulevard. | The Anti-War Committee has consistently organized against the Trump administration's repeated attempts to use bigotry. The Anti-War Committee's call for the protest includes, among other demands: "Muslims are welcome here! Racist, sexist, anti-gay – Mike Pence go away! No ban, no wall! Amnesty for all!" | CJ McCormick, a member of the Anti-War Committee said, "Wherever Trump…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/4/minnesota-protest-vice-president-pence-appearance
'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
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/
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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