Greta Thunberg: 5 Years After Paris Agreement, World Is "Speeding in the Wrong Direction" on Climate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-14
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who launched the global Fridays for Future youth climate movement, issued a stark warning on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement that the world is not doing enough to keep global heating below 2 degrees Celsius — the target set in the landmark 2015 deal. "The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute. We are still speeding in the wrong direction," Thunberg said in a video message posted on social media.
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/14/greta_thunberg_paris_agreement_5th_anniversary

World Is "Speeding in the Wrong Direction" on Climate Says Greta Thunberg
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-14
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who launched the global Fridays for Future youth climate movement, issued a stark warning on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement that the world is not doing enough to keep global heating below 2 degrees Celsius — the target set in the landmark 2015 deal. "The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute. We are still speeding in the wrong direction," Thunberg said in a video message posted on social me…
truthout.org/video/world-is-speeding-in-the-wrong-direction-on-climate-says-greta-thunberg/

John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
John Pilger | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-14
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Britain has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defense spending.
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Resisting Amazon Is Not Futile
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-14
It seems eons ago, the youth-led climate strike of September 20, 2019 that brought four million people onto the streets worldwide. I was on the sidewalk outside Seattle City Hall, watching thousands of school-skippers march by. And then behind the teens came waves of exuberant people, no more than a decade or two older, their homemade signs held aloft: tech workers, including hundreds of Amazon workers who had stepped out of their comfortable cubicles and palatial glass towers to join the global walkout. | They had every right to step lightly. Just a day earlier, the budding Amazon Employees for Climate Justice h…
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Public Distrust in Science Made COVID Worse. It Will Also Harm Climate Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-14
Earlier this year, when the coronavirus pandemic led to a global wave of lockdowns, the world saw marked declines in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions due to closed borders, restricted travel and shifting energy demands. At the height of the lockdown, estimates pin the daily CO2 emission reductions as high as 17 percent, while current numbers indicate that the global emission reductions for the year could fall between 4.2 percent an…
truthout.org/articles/public-distrust-in-science-made-covid-worse-it-will-also-harm-climate-policy/

Wall Street Vultures Are Ready To Get Rich From Water Scarcity
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-14
Bloomberg reported on Sunday that California water futures are now officially on the Wall Street markets, with the United States–based CME Group heading up the 2021 contracts connected to the state's billion-dollar water market. The "commodity" was most recently going for $496 per acre-foot with the main purchasers of the futures–which were first announced by CME in September–expected to be large-scale water consumers, chiefly utility companies and the states' Big Ag corporations. (California is home to the largest agriculture market in the nation.) "Climate change, droughts, population growth,…
popularresistance.org/wall-street-vultures-are-ready-to-get-rich-from-water-scarcity/

FAO supports Iranian experts in developing green projects
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-14
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) — FAO provides another training opportunity for Iranian experts to scale up climate investment for the agricultural and rural development sectors.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167166/FAO-supports-Iranian-experts-in-developing-green-projects

'Can Anybody Still Deny That We Are Facing a Dramatic Emergency?'
Jessica Corbett | zcomm.org | 2020-12-14
UN Chief at Climate Summit:…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/can-anybody-still-deny-that-we-are-facing-a-dramatic-emergency/

UN climate report calls out global elite as cause of the crisis
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-14
The UN Emissions Gap Report released on Dec. 9, shows how far off the mark we are for averting complete climate catastrophe. Current global emissions reduction policies have us on track for 3.5 C warming by 2100, which would be catastrophic for life on Earth.
mronline.org/2020/12/14/un-climate-report-calls-out-global-elite-as-cause-of-the-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-climate-report-calls-out-global-elite-as-cause-of-the-crisis

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-14
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of cultural, political and intellectual reign …
globalresearch.ca/antisemitism-claims-mask-reign-political-cultural-terror-across-europe/5732174

Climate Change Can be Addressed in Coronavirus Relief, Study Says Development Group Urges
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-12-14
As countries address their debt crises, policy responses can reduce climate change, asserts a new study. "Linking Debt Relief and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Experience," examines previous debt relief processes to learn how debt and climate responses can work in tandem.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/14/18838929.php

We can't bank on climate action
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-14
Bank of England forced to deny taking basic climate actions after hoax from laughtervists, the Yes Men.
mronline.org/2020/12/14/we-cant-bank-on-climate-action/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-cant-bank-on-climate-action

How conservatives have laid waste to America for 50 years
Paul Buchheit | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-14