How to explain climate change? With comic books
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-29
If you are reading this, you probably already know a lot about climate change. But what images come to mind if I asked you to visualize climate change?>…
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The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-04-29
By G. Dunkel and Paddy Colligan The United States, even in the midst of a pandemic, doesn't want to relax its imperialist exploits in the Arctic. Global warming is proceeding more rapidly in the Arctic than in any other region of the world. As it proceeds, resources, until recently buried . . . | Continue reading The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic at Workers.org…
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Not kitten around: Cat that Putin gifted to Japanese governor placed in isolation over coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A Siberian cat named Mir that Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted to the Governor of Japan's Akita prefecture has been placed in quarantine over the paw-sibility that it could catch Covid-19. | President Putin gave Norihisa Satake the 11-month-old gray kitten back in 2012, after the governor gifted him an Akita Inu puppy called Yume ('Dream'). The governor's gift was in gratitude for Russia helping Japan deal with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011. | | President Putin and Yume. © Global Look Press | Mir quickly became a be…
rt.com/news/487191-putin-japan-governor-cat-isolation-coronavirus/

Ranked-Choice Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Howie Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
Climate activist Bill McKibben took to the New Yorker recently to advise me and the Green Party to stand down our presidential campaign and instead work for ranked-choice voting (RCV) so we don't "spoil" the election for Joe Biden ("Instead of Challenging Joe Biden, Maybe the Green Party Could Help Change Our Democracy," April 15).
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/ranked-choice-voting-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-28
Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/netanyahu-is-back-yet-again

We Need Healing From Our Oil-Addicted Society
Lucia Santina Ribisi | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
Click here to support Redwood Forest Defense Economic stimulus in response to our pandemic should stop funding fossil fuel companies with bailouts. Instead, we should prioritize welfare to rebuild our society with a sustainable approach to health so that crisis "relief" doesn't continue to fail the public or exacerbate the existential crises of climate change.
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/we-need-healing-from-our-oil-addicted-society/

Is a Post-Pandemic World the Beginning of the End for Oil?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-28
Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over climate change would result in a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise. The result: a greener, less climate-degrading system. In this future, fossil fuels would be overtaken by renewables, while oil, gas, and coal would be relegated to an increasingly marginal role in the global energy equation. In its World Energy Outlook 2019, for example, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted that, by 2040, renewable…
truthout.org/articles/is-a-post-pandemic-world-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-oil/

Mobilizing Climate Action in the Face of Planet of the Humans
Cynthia Kaufman | commondreams.org | 2020-04-28
To me the most misplaced invective is the treatment given to Bill McKibben. He comes across in the film as dishonest and corrupt. And yet he has done more for the climate justice movement than almost anyone else in the world. (Photo: Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/maxresdefault_2.jpg …
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Canada should Treat Climate Change With Same Urgency as COVID-19
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-28
While governments' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic proves significant resources can be marshalled quickly in a crisis, there is little evidence official Canada sees global warming as a comparable emergency. Even though Justin Trudeau's Liberals say they take climate change seriously, Canadian greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are actually increasing. According to the inventory report the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/canada-should-treat-climate-change-with-same-urgency-as-covid-19/

UN chief urges governments to use pandemic to 'rebuild our world for the better'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-28
UN chief António Guterres has said the coronavirus pandemic has exposed how fragile societies are but that if governments work together on common challenges, including the climate crisis, it can be an opportunity to "rebuild our world for the better". | Speaking at a two-day international meeting on climate breakdown, the secretary-general said the only effective response to the worldwide health emergency is "brave, visionary and collaborative leadership". | "The same leadership is needed to address the looming existential threat of climate disruption," Guterres said, noting that the past decade was the hottest s…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/04/28/un-chief-urges-governments-to-use-pandemic-to-rebuild-our-world-for-the-better/

Parallel threats of COVID-19, climate change, require 'brave, visionary and collaborative leadership': UN chief
news.un.org | 2020-04-28
To combat the COVID-19 pandemic and the "looming existential threat of climate disruption", the only credible response is "brave, visionary and collaborative leadership" anchored in mutilateralism, the UN Secretary General António Guterres, said on Tuesday, during an international discussion focused on climate change.
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'I never said it was a hoax!' Trump unloads on media in fiery rant, says coronavirus briefings 'not worth the time and effort'
rt.com | 2020-04-26
US President Donald Trump fired off a scathing broadside at the mainstream media, accusing them of peddling the false claim that he called the coronavirus a hoax, and suggesting the Covid-19 briefings are a waste of time. | "What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately," the president tweeted on Saturday evening. | What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accu…
rt.com/usa/486904-trump-hoax-coronaviurus-briefing/

Climate Crisis: Oil Below Zero, Planet of the Humans, Earth Day At 50
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-25
Earth Day turns 50, the price of oil falls below zero, Michael Moore's new film "Planet of the Humans" generates controversy. And San Diego had big mass transit plans–then COVID-19 happened.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-oil-below-zero-planet-of-the-humans-earth-day-at-50

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

'Planet of the Humans' Breaks Down Climate Crisis
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2020-04-22
Michael Moore returns with a free eco-documentary.
progressive.org/dispatches/planet-of-the-humans-climate-crisis-rampell-200422/

Earth Day, Then and Now
Tia Nelson | progressive.org | 2020-04-22
The threat of climate change is as great or greater than that of the coronavirus.
progressive.org/op-eds/earth-day-then-and-now-nelson-200422/

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/

Technological Solution to Food Crisis?
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
Entrepreneurs and investors are looking for ways to grow enough food in a world of climate change and diminishing resources. | Some propose making "food out of air," according to "Food without Fields?" The article, published in the autumn 2019 issue of Earth Island Journal, presumes the best way to protect ecosystems is to take farming out of them

Unions Disregard Call for Large Scale Climate Action Strikes
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
Students are leading the way with Global Climate Strikes across the country to persuade the government and leaders of the country to take impactful action to remedy the current climate…
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Greta: 'We need to tackle two crises at once'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Environment Jim McIlroyIssue 1263 Australia COVID-19 climate crisis fossil fuel recoveryApril 29, 2020Swedish environmental activis…
greenleft.org.au/content/greta-we-need-tackle-two-crises-once

'Demoralizing' New Michael Moore Film Attacks Climate Movement at a Time When Solutions Should be at the Forefront, Say Critics
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-28
"Throughout, the filmmakers twist basic facts, misleading the public about who is responsible for the climate crisis." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/poth.jpg …
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Amid Dual Crises of Climate and Covid-19, World Leaders Told 'Empty Words Will Not Help Us'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-28
As the year's first major meeting of climate ministers—held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic—wrapped up Tuesday, climate campaigners welcomed world leaders' calls for a "green recovery" from the ongoing public health crisis but demanded that the lofty rhetoric be matched by ambitious, detailed plans and actions. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/200427_pcd_031.jpg …
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Stir Crazy! Episode #19: Earth Day!
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-22
On today's show: Director of the Earth System Science Center Michael Mann, Earther staff writer Dharna Noor, Climate Justice Alliance policy coordinator Anthony Rogers Wright, and TRNN climate reporter Steve Horn. Hosted by Kim Brown. This story is broadcast as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story…
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-19-earth-day