Onto the next 'child-rights crisis'? Greta Thunberg launches fundraiser to battle Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-04-30
Apparently not content to rescue mankind from only one doomsday scenario, teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg has sprung into action again, launching a fundraising campaign to help the children of the world survive Covid-19. | The project will see the young activist partner with Denmark's Human Act Foundation to pledge $100,000 each to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which brings humanitarian aid to children around the globe. | Though the Covid-19 outbreak has largely spared the young, Thunberg nonetheless branded the pandemic a "child-rights crisis" in a statement announcin…
rt.com/news/487304-greta-next-apocalypse-coronavirus/

"Humans" are not the problem: Reflections on a "useless" documentary
Brian Tokar | zcomm.org | 2020-04-30
"Planet of the Humans" does a serious disservice to those seeking to bring a more systemic and forward-looking approach into the climate movement…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/humans-are-not-the-problem-reflections-on-a-useless-documentary/

The Beginning of the End for Oil? Energy in a Post-Pandemic World
Michael T. Klare | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-oil-energy-in-a-post-pandemic-world/

CNN's Exceptional Climate Journalism Achievement
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-04-29
CNN's Exceptional Climate Journalism Achievement…
thenation.com/article/environment/cnn-climate-crisis-bill-weir/

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?>…
mronline.org/2020/04/29/how-to-explain-climate-change-with-comic-books/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-explain-climate-change-with-comic-books

FROM THE FIELD: Women act as 'agents of change' in climate emergency
news.un.org | 2020-04-29
Women around the world can act as "agents of change" and find solutions to the challenges provoked by the global climate crisis, according to the UN's specialized gender agency, UN Women.
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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.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062752

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/

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/

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…
projectcensored.org/unions-disregard-call-for-large-scale-climate-action-strikes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unions-disregard-call-for-large-scale-climate-action-strikes

Greta Thunberg Donates $100,000 Prize to UNICEF to Protect Children From COVID-19 Outbreak
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-30
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize awarded by the Danish non-governmental organisation Human Act to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to help the organisation protect children from COVID-19, according to a UNICEF statement on Thursday.
sputniknews.com/society/202004301079145524-greta-thunberg-donates-100000-prize-to-unicef/

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