Climate Activists Have Not Lost Hope Amid Pandemic
Greta Thunberg | zcomm.org | 2020-04-24
We're Changing How We Organize…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/climate-activists-have-not-lost-hope-amid-pandemic/

Now is the Perfect Time to Fight Climate Change
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid to that sector of our economy whose existence had heretofore represented humanity's greatest threat: the fossil fuel industry. But now may be the best time to pay heed. Oil and gas prices recently fell so low that they bizarrely…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/now-is-the-perfect-time-to-fight-climate-change/

Trump, coronavirus, and climate change: using a pandemic to gut the EPA
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-24
Under the guise of protecting workers and the public from the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two weeks ago that it will not issue fines against companies that violate certain water, air, and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.
mronline.org/2020/04/24/trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change-using-a-pandemic-to-gut-the-epa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change-using-a-pandemic-to-gut-the-epa

The car industry and the climate crisis
Stephan Kroll and Christian Hofmann | indybay.org | 2020-04-24
The car companies should now be converted into providers of mobility needs based on socio-ecological sustainability. Reduction of working hours – short full time of an average of 30 hours/4 days per week for all – is part of the neceesary radical change to save human lives amid plutocratic neoliberalism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/22/18832551.php

As Oil Prices Plunge, Fracking and Oil Drilling Expands Under Gov. Newsom
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-04-24
"It just doesn't make any sense to approve fracking permits in the state of California now," said Liza Tucker, consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog. "It's clear that it's time to sunset fossil fuels and effect a just transition to a new energy economy. We should end fracking right now and phase out oil and gas production in the state in a rational, managed way. We should not be issuing new permits for oil and gas drilling."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/20/18832539.php

The coronavirus has created an opening for collective action to save our climate
Patti Lynn | nationofchange.org | 2020-04-23
Our collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic has proven that collective action can enable swift and inspiring changes to how we operate as a society.
nationofchange.org/2020/04/23/the-coronavirus-has-created-an-opening-for-collective-action-to-save-our-climate/

Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don't Use Single-Use Plastics
Annie Leonard | thenation.com | 2020-04-23
Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don't Use Single-Use Plastics.
thenation.com/article/environment/plastic-recycling-climate-change/

Global Coalition: COVID-19, Climate Crises Linked, Must Be Addressed as One
commondreams.org | 2020-04-23
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/04/23/global-coalition-covid-19-climate-crises-linked-must-be-addressed-one?cd-origin=rss

Climate change threatens trophic ecology of Arctic mammals
Alex Marvin | nationofchange.org | 2020-04-23
More studies on the fate of the Arctic wildlife is important to delineate possible conservation measures that will help alleviate if not prevent the devastating effects of climate change on Earth, including the Arctic region.
nationofchange.org/2020/04/23/climate-change-threatens-trophic-ecology-of-arctic-mammals/

Climate Justice Arising—Hidden Hope in Dark Times
Frances Moore Lappé | commondreams.org | 2020-04-23
People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo is working to advance strong neighborhoods with quality & affordable housing, local hiring opportunities, and economic & environmental justice. (Photo courtesy of PUSH Buffalo) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_justice_arising_image_4.21.2020.jpg …
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The solutions to the climate crisis no one is talking about
Robert Reich | nationofchange.org | 2020-04-23
We deserve a world without fossil fuels. A world in which workers and communities thrive and our shared climate comes before industry profits.
nationofchange.org/2020/04/23/the-solutions-to-the-climate-crisis-no-one-is-talking-about/

Greta Thunberg: Climate Activists Have Not Lost Hope Amid Pandemic. We're Changing How We Organize
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke in an Earth Day live stream hosted by the Nobel Prize Museum about how the Fridays for Future school strikes movement she launched is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. "Within the Fridays for Future movement, there's still this sort of big sense of resistance, and people are thinking, 'We will get out of this. And when we do, we will continue, and we will do everything we can that is possible in that situation to continue to push even harder,'" says Thunberg. "I feel like many people have not lost their sense of hope. We have just changed the way we do things. W…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/greta_thunberg_earth_day_2020

Chileans Who Took to Streets Against Inequality & Climate Crisis Say Virus Lockdowns Won't Stop Them
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Months ago, the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities were alive with a vibrant mass protest movement that drew hundreds of thousands and even led the U.N. climate summit to be relocated to Madrid, Spain, last December. Now the public spaces of Santiago are largely empty as citizens shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But the protest movement against austerity and right-wing President Sebastián Piñera lives on as activists find new ways to organize online. We go to Santiago, Chile, to speak with Angela Valenzuela, a 350.org organizer who has been active both in the country's uprising and in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/angela_valenzuela_chile

Zooming Newport's Climate Awareness Earth Day 2020
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-22
Fifty years ago, the first Earth Day brought out 20 million Americans across the land

Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won't halt climate change – UN weather agency chief
news.un.org | 2020-04-22
An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is only "short-term good news", the head of the UN weather agency said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062332

Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief?
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-04-22
Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief?
thenation.com/article/environment/psychedelics-climate-grief/

Guterres vows support for island States in twin fight against COVID-19, climate crisis
news.un.org | 2020-04-21
In an era of new challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres is pledging the UN's continued support to small island States

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/

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/

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/

'No Warming, No War': Report Details How US Militarism and Climate Crisis Are Deeply Interwoven
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-23
A new report examining the federal budget illuminates the deep connections between the climate emergency and the U.S. military, arguing that the shift to a green economy requires a just transition away from both fossil fuels and endless war. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/usairforce-635x357_0.jpg …
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