2020-04-20: Social Media Postees

Please be social by posting these 'POSTEES' on social media! (Copy the text of the postee below, then paste it on social media and the story images will also appear.)

Organizing on the Coasts Won't Save the Planet
Jane Fleming Kleeb | thenation.com | 2020-04-20
Organizing on the Coasts Won't Save the Planet…
thenation.com/article/environment/rural-organizing-climate-kxl/

The Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis
Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope | thenation.com | 2020-04-20
The Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis…
thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-climate-crisis-journalism/

Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar)
Pacific Environment & Climate Works Found. | indybay.org | 2020-04-20
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/19/18832492.php

Earth Day: Climate Conversation w/ Elizabeth Colbert, Pulitzer Prize Author & Journalist
Seattle Arts & Lectures | indybay.org | 2020-04-20
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832470.php

Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis
Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope | thenation.com | 2020-04-20
Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis…
thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-climate-crisis-journalism/

Orwellian Lockstep and a Loaded Syringe
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Some years ago, the then vice-president of Monsanto Robert T Fraley asked, "Why do people doubt science". He posed the question partly because he had difficulty in believing that some people had valid concerns about the use of genetically modified …
globalresearch.ca/orwellian-lockstep-loaded-syringe/5710144

Earth Week Film: 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste' Virtual Screening + Discussion (free)
One Earth Film Festival | indybay.org | 2020-04-20
Online streaming…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832473.php

Lessons From COVID-19 to Address the Climate Crisis
Amy Merrill | commondreams.org | 2020-04-19
Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles, California on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-06-12_at_10.47.01_am_0.png
commondreams.org/views/2020/04/19/lessons-covid-19-address-climate-crisis?cd-origin=rss

Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to rage like a wildfire across the planet, its devastating toll has left many asking whether climate change

Finding Hope in Dark Times While Avoiding Environmentalists' Mistakes of the Past
Carlos Davidson | commondreams.org | 2020-04-19
At first it was an email pointing out that the pandemic would mean that global carbon emissions would be down… But then it got worse with people I respect circulating writings that embraced the pandemic as ultimately good for the environment by warning humanity to respect Mother Earth." (Image: NASA) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_planet_0.jpg
commondreams.org/views/2020/04/19/finding-hope-dark-times-while-avoiding-environmentalists-mistakes-past?cd-origin=rss

Orwellian Lockstep and a Loaded Syringe
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-19
Some years ago, the then vice-president of Monsanto Robert T Fraley asked, "Why do people doubt science". He posed the question partly because he had difficulty in believing that some people had valid concerns about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. Critics were questioning the science behind GM technology and the impacts …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/orwellian-lockstep-and-a-loaded-syringe/

David Attenborough issues a vital plea to 'cherish' our 'precious world'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-19
David Attenborough has urged people to "stop waste of any kind", saying the world is precious and should be "celebrated and cherished".The broadcaster and naturalist warned humans have a "last chance" to change their behaviour and save the planet, as he urged politicians to address "the biggest problem humanity has ever faced".In an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Attenborough said it will be the younger generation who will have to make changes because "they will be able to see the consequences of what they do". | He added: "My lot are dying off and we are the ones that caused the problem."He suggested p…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/04/19/david-attenborough-issues-a-vital-plea-to-cherish-our-precious-world/

The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries

COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-the-delicate-economic-balance-we-all-live-in-under-capitalism/

Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-14
An immunocompromised Wisconsin man in his 70s died from an infection with a strain of Legionella bacteria traced to water supplies in his home, according to a CDC report.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764467

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/