World Is "Speeding in the Wrong Direction" on Climate
Greta Thunberg | zcomm.org | 2020-12-15
"The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/world-is-speeding-in-the-wrong-direction-on-climate/

The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
John Pilger describes the invisible weapon of past and current wars, and the threat of nuclear war, under cover of the Covid pandemic. This is propaganda, aided by censorship by omission. | Watch Pilger's 2010 film The War You Don't See…
globalresearch.ca/most-lethal-virus-not-covid-war/5732310

The Most Lethal Virus is Not COVID. It is War
John Pilger | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-15
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Boris Johnson has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defence spending — a figure that would restore the under-resourced NHS many times over.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/15/the-most-lethal-virus-is-not-covid-it-is-war/

'Grossly insufficient': ExxonMobil lambasted over emissions reduction plan that pledges no reduction in absolute emissions
Andrea Germanos | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-15
"Any company that fails to keep pace with what science demands threatens its future while endangering the rest of us with escalating climate impacts and systemic risks to the global economy."
nationofchange.org/2020/12/15/grossly-insufficient-exxonmobil-lambasted-over-emissions-reduction-plan-that-pledges-no-reduction-in-absolute-emissions/

Climate Change Can be Addressed in Coronavirus Relief, Study Says Development Group Urges
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-12-15
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

Young Champions of the Earth: Indian's burning desire for energy
news.un.org | 2020-12-15
An Indian engineer has been recognized by the United Nations for developing innovative technology which not only produces energy, but which helps to keep the air cleaner and reduce climate change.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1080072

Creating More Climate-Proof Health Care Facilities
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
Building more resilient and environmentally sustainable health care systems is essential to ensuring access to care as the world's climate continues to change, according to new guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774064

'Buy It or Else': Inside Monsanto and BASF's Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers
Johnathan Hettinger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
Get poisoned or get on board. | That's the choice soybean farmers such as Will Glazik face. The past few summers, farmers near Glazik's central Illinois farm have sprayed so much of the weed killer dicamba at the same time that …
globalresearch.ca/buy-it-inside-monsanto-basf-moves-force-dicamba-farmers/5732338

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

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.
mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-lethal-virus-not-covid-war/273597/

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…
popularresistance.org/resisting-amazon-is-not-futile/

How conservatives have laid waste to America for 50 years
Paul Buchheit | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-14
Conservatism has made 'social' a dirty word. Here are some of the details of fifty years of damage inflicted on America…
nationofchange.org/2020/12/14/how-conservatives-have-laid-waste-to-america-for-50-years/

Faith and the fight against climate change, Part 1
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-14