2020-05-12: 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.)

COVID-19: Global Pandemic & Climate Disruption With Mike Davis
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online Zoom meeting, see details here: speakoutsocialists.org/townhall-davis-5-16/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832968.php

Stir Crazy! Episode #32: Don't Make Us Regret This!
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-12
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, co-host of "By Any Means Necessary" Jacqueline Luqman, and TRNN managing editor Marc Steiner. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-32-dont-make-us-regret-this

Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto's Biotechnology and Support Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B?
Don Fitz | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
Genetically engineered crops are a form of food imperialism. This technology allows mega-corporations like Bayer/Monsanto to patent seeds, lure farmers into buying them with visions of high yields, and then destroy the ability of small farmers to survive. Genetic engineering produces an artificial combination of plant traits which often results in foods with less nutritional …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/can-we-simultaneously-oppose-bayer-monsantos-biotechnology-and-support-cubas-interferon-alpha-2b/

Who's Protecting the Moon?
Nina Beety | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth,"

Trump Labor Dept. Pushes States to Help Employers Report Workers Who Stay Home
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
With the stated goal of rooting out " waste and fraud" in the unemployment insurance system, President Donald Trump's Department of Labor is openly encouraging ongoing state efforts to help employers report workers who refuse to return to their jobs out of fear of contracting the cor…
truthout.org/articles/trump-labor-dept-pushes-states-to-help-employers-report-workers-who-stay-home/

How will coronavirus shape our response to climate change?>
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-11
The global response to the COVID-19 crisis could inform the fight against climate change, Imperial College London experts say.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197473/how-will-coronavirus-shape-response-climate

Planet of the Humans Backlash
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-11
The backlash may be more revealing than the film itself, but both inform us where we are at in the fight against climate change and ecological collapse. The environmental establishment's frenzied attacks against Planet of the Humans says a lot about its commitment to big money and technological solutions. A number of prominent individuals tried …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-backlash/

Vote Climate U.S. PAC Urges Americans to Vote Climate and Vote-by-Mail
commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
______________________________…
commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/11/vote-climate-us-pac-urges-americans-vote-climate-and-vote-mail?cd-origin=rss

COVID-19 and the parallel nuclear war and climate change threats
Karl Grossman | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-11
We can create a new and better world–but we must fully commit ourselves to it and work for it, "pressing, making changes."
nationofchange.org/2020/05/11/covid-19-and-the-parallel-nuclear-war-and-climate-change-threats/

Studies Reveal Climate Tipping Points Could Be Here Much Sooner Than We Thought
Shanna Hanbury | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
A coral reef in Indonesia. Coral reefs—especially Australia's Great Barrier Reef—have proven to be very sensitive to climate change. Now scientists are trying to determine the mechanisms for climate ecosystem tipping points, and how fast they will occur around the world. (Photo: HereIsTom on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ecosystem.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/studies-reveal-climate-tipping-points-could-be-here-much-sooner-we-thought?cd-origin=rss

Debunking Trump's Nonsense
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces at work behind the scenes that have produced the crisis. Some people might see God or the Devil as the prime mover behind a catastrophe. Others throw up their…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/debunking-trumps-nonsense/

As Oil Price Plummets, Call to Nationalize Industry Rises
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
The price of oil dropped below zero, prompting new subsidies from the Federal Reserve. Progressive voices in the U.S. and Canada have a different idea: nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.
therealnews.com/stories/as-oil-price-plummets-call-to-nationalize-industry-rises

Climate Crisis: False Techtopia, Tariffs Accounting, Orphan Wells, And The Dead Cow
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
Recent studies debunk the false techtopianism in climate science models, U.S. import tariffs failed climate accounting, and Argentina's shale industry is flailing. As fracking goes bust, what happens to orphaned wells?
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-false-techtopia-tariffs-accounting-orphan-wells-and-the-dead-cow

The 'staggering' fall of global fossil fuel demand
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-08
By Kieran Cooke: One of the pillars of industrial society is tottering: global fossil fuel demand is buckling, with only renewable energy expected to show any growth this year. Oil prices are going through the floor. The market for coal and gas is shrinking fast. And global emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases are set to …
truepublica.org.uk/global/the-staggering-fall-of-global-fossil-fuel-demand/

Stir Crazy! Episode #31: Cancel Corporate Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, The Progressive Army founder Ben Dixon, and TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-31-cancel-corporate-media

California And Trump Push Geoengineering–A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse engineer the climate crisis with technology. The controversial method already has Big Oil's support–and the Trump administration's.
therealnews.com/stories/california-trump-geoengineering-direct-air-capture-technology

New PSL book: 'Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism'
Sunil Freeman | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
"It is a small book, but expansive in outlook in a way that echoes the holistic eco-socialist society we will need…"
liberationnews.org/new-psl-book-climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism/

Climate Crisis: KXL Legal Precedent, War and Climate, Slow Streets
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-05
A legal ruling on the Keystone XL Pipeline has sent shockwaves through the energy industry. Meanwhile, new studies show that war is worsening climate change, and 'slow streets' gains policy momentum.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-kxl-legal-precedent-war-and-climate-slow-streets

Oil companies should be denied a bailout
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Climate crisis Rupen SavoulianIssue 1265 Australia COVID-19 oil industry bail-outsMay 12, 2020Oil corporations have been environmentally…
greenleft.org.au/content/oil-companies-should-be-denied-bailout

Daily average CO2 levels reach 418.12ppm
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Environment Jessica CorbettIssue 1265 COVID-19 climate change global warmingMay 12, 2020Climate scientists and campaigners reiterated their demands for urgent global action to dramatically reduce plane…
greenleft.org.au/content/daily-average-co2-levels-reach-41812ppm

Last Process: 23 Postees: 2020-05-13 02:31 GMT (22:31 EST)

w3c-requires-heading