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2020-01-17: Social Media Postees

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The climate-migration-industrial complex
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-17
Thirty years ago there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now there are seventy walls and over one billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next forty years due to global warming. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/17/the-climate-migration-industrial-complex/

The Rumbling Methane Enigma
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-17
The northern continental shelves of Russia, inclusive of the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea (ESAS) are some of the least researched yet most controversial subjects in climate science today. It's the one region that has the biggest potential to trigger runaway global warming because of sizeable subsea methane deposits, thereby…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/17/the-rumbling-methane-enigma/

The Australian Open Is the Tip of a Melting Iceberg
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-01-17
The Australian Open Is the Tip of a Melting Iceberg…
thenation.com/article/australian-open-fires-climate-change/

ReclaimMLK: Youth Climate Strike & Resiliency Village
Youth Vs Apocalypse | indybay.org | 2020-01-17
Oscar Grant/ Frank Ogawa Plaza | Oakland, CA 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/16/18829815.php

Trump's Border Wall Is an Environmental Disaster
William deBuys | thenation.com | 2020-01-17
Trump's Border Wall Is an Environmental Disaster…
thenation.com/article/trump-border-wall-climate/

While Some Battle to Save Australia's Ecosystems, Others Blame Gov't for Climate Change Denial
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-17
"This fire season has been a devastating wake-up call for many Australians. People who may have thought climate change was a vague, distant threat are now breathing bushfire smoke and reeling from the lives lost."
mintpressnews.com/battle-save-australia-fire-blame-govt-climate-change-denial/264175/

The Maldives Seek Financing to Manage Climate Change Impacts
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-17
The Republic of Maldives' Foreign Affairs Minister Abdulla Shahid Thursday indicated that his country, a small island nation located in the Indian Ocean, is struggling to find financing that will allow it to build infrastructure to mitigate the risks of sea-level rise. | RELATED: | Germany Agrees on Plan to Phase out Coal Power by 2038 | "For the Maldives, and, for the world over, climate change can be best described as a security and human rights challenge," said Shahid at the Raisina…
telesurenglish.net/news/The-Maldives-Seek-Financing-to-Manage-Climate-Change-Impacts-20200117-0001.html

ReclaimMLK: Youth Climate Strike & Resiliency Village
Youth Vs Apocalypse | indybay.org | 2020-01-17
Oscar Grant/ Frank Ogawa Plaza | Oakland, CA 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/16/18829815.php

Trump's Border Wall Is an Environmental Disaster
William deBuys | thenation.com | 2020-01-17
Trump's Border Wall Is an Environmental Disaster…
thenation.com/article/trump-border-wall-climate/

The TEPCO Trial: Prosecution and Acquittal after Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown
Prof. David T. Johnson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-17
On September 19, 2019, a panel of three professional judges in the Tokyo District Court acquitted three former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The defendants were former chairman Katsumata Tsunehisa (79), and former vice presidents Takekuro Ichiro …
globalresearch.ca/reflections-tepco-trial-prosecution-acquittal-japan-nuclear-meltdown/5700906

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-01-17
LOS ANGELES, January 14, 2020

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-01-17
LOS ANGELES, January 14, 2020

UK home secretary defends citing Extinction Rebellion in police guide to extremism
wsws.org | 2020-01-17
Home Secretary Priti Patel told a radio interviewer that although XR was not a terrorist organisation, the government had to look at "a range of security risks."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/17/extr-j17.html

UK home secretary defends naming Extinction Rebellion as extremist
wsws.org | 2020-01-17
Home Secretary Priti Patel told a radio interviewer that although XR was not a terrorist organisation, the government had to look at "a range of security risks."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/17/extr-j17.html

Human extinction now imminent and inevitable? A report on the state of planet earth
Robert J. Burrowes | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-17
Very soon now, the overwhelming evidence is that Homo sapiens will join other species that only exist as part of the fossil record.
nationofchange.org/2020/01/16/human-extinction-now-imminent-and-inevitable-a-report-on-the-state-of-planet-earth/

Western Sydney youth demand 'climate action now'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-17
Climate Yaji SpencerIssue 1249 Australia ParramattaJanuary 17, 2020Local residents and climate activists, including a large contingent of young people, marched through Parramatta on January 14 calling for serious action on climate change. | Rally co-organiser Katrina James…
greenleft.org.au/content/western-sydney-youth-demand-climate-action-now

While Australia burns, climate-ravaged Bangladesh is building resilience
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-17
Climate change Paul GregoireIssue 1249 Bangladesh rising sea levels inundation adaptationJanuary 17, 2020In response to Australian…
greenleft.org.au/content/while-australia-burns-climate-ravaged-bangladesh-building-resilience

David Attenborough warns that we must make 'compelling life or death' decisions now
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-01-16
David Attenborough has issued a vital warning for all governments to take action on the climate crisis now. His warning came as new scientific research revealed that 2019 was the second hottest year on record. | "The moment of crisis has come": | Speaking to BBC News on 16 January, Attenborough warned: We have been putting things off year after year. We've been raising targets and saying: 'Oh, well, if we do it withi…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/01/16/david-attenborough-warns-that-we-must-make-compelling-life-or-death-decisions-now/

Climate crisis 'affecting quality of life and fuelling discontent'
news.un.org | 2020-01-16
The climate crisis, as well as persistently high inequalities, and rising levels of food insecurity and undernourishment, is affecting the quality of life in many societies and fuelling discontent, the UN warned on Thursday, on the publication of the 2020 World Economic Situation Report (WESP).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1055402

Climate Crisis: We Need Radical Change Now, Not in the Future
Nick Licata | zcomm.org | 2020-01-16
Reading Naomi Klein's new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is similar to watching a mega-disaster movie in a theater. Except, you can leave your fears behind when you exit the theater…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/climate-crisis-we-need-radical-change-now-not-in-the-future/

Schumer Praised for Joining Sanders in Voting Against Trump Trade Deal That Ignores Climate Crisis
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-16
Environmentalists and progressives nationwide praised Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday for voting against President Donald Trump's new trade deal because it ignored the human-caused climate crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-6873969301.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/16/schumer-praised-joining-sanders-voting-against-trump-trade-deal-ignores-climate?cd-origin=rss

Catastrophic fires and the far-right's denialism
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-16
Climate Jeff SparrowIssue 1249 Australia far-rightJanuary 16, 2020For most people, "ecofascism" sounds nonsensical, a portmanteau made up of irreconcilable opposites. | Environmentalists adhere, for the most part, to progressive politics, with fascists glorifying everything th…
greenleft.org.au/content/catastrophic-fires-and-far-right-denialism

Protecting the environment and jobs go together
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-16
Climate trade unions Steve O'BrienIssue 1249 Australia our common causeJanuary 16, 2020One of the best received speakers at the recent climate rally in Newcastle was Construction, Forestry, Mining…
greenleft.org.au/content/protecting-environment-and-jobs-go-together

People power the silver lining of bushfire crisis
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-16
bushfires Margaret GleesonIssue 1249 Australia community power climate emergencyJanuary 16, 2020The dire lack of government leadership over the New Year bushfire crisis contrasted strongly with…
greenleft.org.au/content/people-power-silver-lining-bushfire-crisis

Residents stand firm to protect Gandolfo Gardens
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-16
environment James ConlanIssue 1249 Australia climate emergency MelbourneJanuary 16, 2020A battle to save a historic park in Melbourne's inner north from the Victorian state government's wreckin…
greenleft.org.au/content/residents-stand-firm-protect-gandolfo-gardens

First Nations communities show a lead in the fire crisis
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-16
climate emergency Peter BoyleIssue 1249 Australia fire management First NationsJanuary 16, 2020At the height of the fire crisis over the New Year an Aboriginal elder, who had evacuated from Lakes…
greenleft.org.au/content/first-nations-communities-show-lead-fire-crisis

The Guardian's concern for Cornish residents if FlyBe collapses totally misses the point
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-15
An article in the Guardian on 14 January highlighted the fears some Cornish residents have of being "isolated" if FlyBe collapses. But the article misses two crucial points. Firstly, and most importantly, there's the fact we're living in a climate crisis, and no-one should encourage domestic flights. Secondly, the Guardian only managed to talk to airline users to highlight these supposedly generic 'fears'

The Guardian's concern for Cornish residents if FlyBe collapses totally misses the point
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-15
An article in the Guardian on 14 January highlighted the fears some Cornish residents have of being "isolated" if FlyBe collapses. But the article misses two crucial points. Firstly, and most importantly, there's the fact we're living in a climate crisis, and no-one should encourage domestic flights. Secondly, the Guardian only managed to talk to airline users to highlight these supposedly generic 'fears'

Bernie Sanders Won't Play Your Game
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-01-15
Bernie Sanders Won't Play Your Game…
thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-trade-climate/

Ten poetry books that illuminate a decade's struggles
Chris Butters | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-15
Occupy Wall Street. The Peoples Climate March. The Women's March. Black Lives Matter. The ongoing mobilizations to defeat Trump and the extreme right that supports him. As we marched and organized against injustice, poets, often marching right alongside us, were creating enduring works of literary art that spoke to the struggle and the times we …
peoplesworld.org/article/ten-poetry-books-that-illuminate-a-decades-struggles/

Climate change and its unequal impact on women
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-15
women Mary MerkenichIssue 1249 Australia busfires disaster managementJanuary 15, 2020While some do not want to discuss the cause of Australia's horrendous bushfires

CLEAN Future Act Is 'Shameful' and 'Greenwashing,' say Climate Justice Groups
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-14
Democrats' CLEAN Future Act calls for "net zero" carbon emissions by 2050 but doesn't require a fossil fuel industry phaseout. Critics say the bill lacks ambition and ignores the short timeline for radical action dictated by climate science.
therealnews.com/columns/clean-future-act-is-shameful-and-greenwashing-say-climate-justice-groups

"Stop the Money Pipeline": 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street's Link to Climate Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-13
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as "Fire Drill Fridays," since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action to thwart the climate crisis. Fonda then marched with supporters down Pennsylvania Avenue to a Chase Bank branch where en…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/jane_fonda_fire_drill_fridays_washington

Inaction over climate emergency 'not an option' says UN Assembly chief
news.un.org | 2020-01-10
Inaction when it comes to the fight back against damaging climate change is not an option, the President of the UN General Assembly told a major energy conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1055171

Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won't Save You From It
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-09
Climate scientist Michael Mann is in Australia, where the bushfire crisis is unfolding in real time. He says voters there need to look for 'climate hawks' who can counteract the climate-denying policies of politicians like current prime minister Scott Morrison.
therealnews.com/stories/australia-fire-denying-climate-change-wont-save-you

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2020-01-16: News Headlines

Center for Biological Diversity (2020-01-16). Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals. indybay.org LOS ANGELES, January 14, 2020 — Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today challenging the last step in the administration's plan to allow oil drilling and fracking on more than 1 million acres of public lands and minerals in Central California.

Nick Licata (2020-01-16). Climate Crisis: We Need Radical Change Now, Not in the Future. counterpunch.org Reading Naomi Klein's new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is similar to watching a mega-disaster movie in a theater. Except, you can leave your fears behind when you exit the theater. Klein's message is that our human induced climate change is devastating our livable earth, we are stuck here, it More

Fred_F (2020-01-16). Catastrophic fires and the far-right's denialism. greenleft.org.au Climate Jeff SparrowIssue 1249 Australia far-rightJanuary 16, 2020For most people, "ecofascism" sounds nonsensical, a portmanteau made up of irreconcilable opposites. | Environmentalists adhere, for the most part, to progressive politics, with fascists glorifying everything th…

Fred_F (2020-01-16). Protecting the environment and jobs go together. greenleft.org.au Climate trade unions Steve O'BrienIssue 1249 Australia our common causeJanuary 16, 2020One of the best received speakers at the recent climate rally in Newcastle was Construction, Forestry, Mining…

pip.hinman (2020-01-16). People power the silver lining of bushfire crisis. greenleft.org.au bushfires Margaret GleesonIssue 1249 Australia community power climate emergencyJanuary 16, 2020The dire lack of government leadership over the New Year bushfire crisis contrasted strongly with…

pip.hinman (2020-01-16). First Nations communities show a lead in the fire crisis. greenleft.org.au climate emergency Peter BoyleIssue 1249 Australia fire management First NationsJanuary 16, 2020At the height of the fire crisis over the New Year an Aboriginal elder, who had evacuated from Lakes…

Chris Butters (2020-01-15). Ten poetry books that illuminate a decade's struggles. peoplesworld.org Occupy Wall Street. The Peoples Climate March. The Women's March. Black Lives Matter. The ongoing mobilizations to defeat Trump and the extreme right that supports him. As we marched and organized against injustice, poets, often marching right alongside us, were creating enduring works of literary art that spoke to the struggle and the times we …

Staff (2020-01-15). A Truly Antiwar Agenda Must Include Free College and Medicare for All. truthout.org Last night's debate brought home a reality for me: A truly antiwar agenda is not confined to priorities traditionally seen as "foreign policy." It must include bold plans to address climate change, education, institutional racism and sexism, health care and immigration justice. And our movements must reflect that broad-based vision. | The recent assassination of Iran's top Gen. Qassim Suleimani was a frightening reminder of the undemocratic and reckless approach of those who currently rule the U.S.

Staff (2020-01-15). Shuttered Refinery in Philly Shows Climate Activists Cannot Ignore Labor. truthout.org In the early morning hours of June 21, 2019, a catastrophic explosion tore through the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) oil refinery in the southwest section of Philadelphia. The training and quick thinking of refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 10-1, averted certain disaster and saved millions of lives. One month later, on July 21, PES declared bankruptcy — their second in as many years — and began to close down the refinery in the following months, laying off a…

Ashley Curtin (2020-01-15). The well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement. nationofchange.org "The climate change counter movement, as I call it, is really an add-on to the already-existing conservative movement in the United States."

Emily Apple (2020-01-15). The Guardian's concern for Cornish residents if FlyBe collapses totally misses the point. thecanary.co An article in the Guardian on 14 January highlighted the fears some Cornish residents have of being "isolated" if FlyBe collapses. But the article misses two crucial points. Firstly, and most importantly, there's the fact we're living in a climate crisis, and no-one should encourage domestic flights. Secondly, the Guardian only managed to talk to airline users to highlight these supposedly generic 'fears' — only two of whom are actual residents.As a Cornish resident, it can be is…

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2020-01-15). Australia on the Chasm of Climate Catastrophe. counterpunch.org Australia has had a series of bad governments beholden to the coal industry and to the Rupert Murdoch propaganda machine. The media empire of Murdoch controls about 60 percent of the newspapers and television stations. The Murdoch message, just like the message of Fox TV in America, is in defense of the oligarchs and against environmental protection of any kind. This propaganda is in accord with the continued use of fossil fuels and the ceaseless destruction of the natural world. More

John Nichols (2020-01-15). Bernie Sanders Won't Play Your Game. thenation.com Bernie Sanders Won't Play Your Game…

pip.hinman (2020-01-15). Climate change and its unequal impact on women. greenleft.org.au women Mary MerkenichIssue 1249 Australia busfires disaster managementJanuary 15, 2020While some do not want to discuss the cause of Australia's horrendous bushfires — runaway climate change — e…

Staff (2020-01-14). CLEAN Future Act Is 'Shameful' and 'Greenwashing,' say Climate Justice Groups. therealnews.com Democrats' CLEAN Future Act calls for "net zero" carbon emissions by 2050 but doesn't require a fossil fuel industry phaseout. Critics say the bill lacks ambition and ignores the short timeline for radical action dictated by climate science.

Staff (2020-01-13). "Stop the Money Pipeline": 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street's Link to Climate Crisis. democracynow.org Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as "Fire Drill Fridays," since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action to thwart the climate crisis. Fonda then marched with supporters down Pennsylvania Avenue to a Chase Bank branch where en…

news.un (2020-01-10). Inaction over climate emergency 'not an option' says UN Assembly chief. news.un.org Inaction when it comes to the fight back against damaging climate change is not an option, the President of the UN General Assembly told a major energy conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday.

Staff (2020-01-09). Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won't Save You From It. therealnews.com Climate scientist Michael Mann is in Australia, where the bushfire crisis is unfolding in real time. He says voters there need to look for 'climate hawks' who can counteract the climate-denying policies of politicians like current prime minister Scott Morrison.

Staff (2020-01-09). Headlines for January 9, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Appears to Pull Back from New Military Action Against Iran, Mitch McConnell Met with Trump at White House & Discussed Impeachment Trial, Investigators Probe Cause of Fatal Boeing Plane Crash in Tehran, Youth Climate Group the Sunrise Movement Endorses Bernie Sanders, More Than 1 Billion Animals Killed in Climate-Fueled Wildfires in Australia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She's Cancer-Free, Guatemalan President Says U.S. Cannot Send Mexican Asylum Seekers to Guatemala, Spanish Socialist Party Leader Pedro Sánchez Sworn In as Prime Minister, Facebook Doubles Down on Its Policy of Allowing Lies in Political Ads…

Stuart Munckton (2020-01-08). Greta Thunberg's radical response to a strange world. greenleft.org.au Climate change books Jay LarbalestierIssue 1248 Australia Greta ThunbergJanuary 8, 2020No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
| By Greta Thunberg
| Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2019 | On August…

Stuart Munckton (2020-01-08). Seven new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf. greenleft.org.au ecosocialism books Ian AngusIssue 1248 Australia ecosocialist bookshelfJanuary 8, 2020Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at seven new titles for an ecosocialist bookshelf. | ***

Staff (2020-01-07). 25 People and 1 Billion Animals Are Dead from Australia's Bushfires. therealnews.com Australia's climate-denying prime minister has already called in emergency responders to battle the wildfire crisis. But fire season hasn't peaked yet, and scientists are warning that the country's own policies are part of the feedback loop driving their unprecedented crisis.

pip.hinman (2020-01-07). Vigil calls for action on fire emergency. greenleft.org.au climate emergency Jim McIlroyIssue 1248 Australia bushfires firefighters SydneyJanuary 7, 2020Around 100 people formed a circle at the Q…

pip.hinman (2020-01-06). Firefighter: 'We are being kicked in the teeth by government'. greenleft.org.au climate emergencyIssue 1248 Australia bushfires climate changeJanuary 7, 2020As the catastrophic fires raged over several states from late December into early January, Green Left's Pip Hinman asked Shaun McDonald, a professional firefighter currently based in Tasmania about…

pip.hinman (2020-01-06). Eyewitness: East Gippsland burns. greenleft.org.au climate emergency Alan BroughtonIssue 1248 Australia bushfires East Gippsland East GippslandJanuary 7, 2020East Gippsland i…

David Kupfer (2019-12-27). Climate Conference Was a Great Success—for the Fossil-Fuel Industry. progressive.org Despite growing evidence of global climate disruption, little was accomplished beyond a watered-down text that kicks most of the big issues down the road.

Naomi Klein (2019-12-10). The Case for a Green New Deal. zcomm.org Interview on the case for a Green New Deal that tackles the causes and impacts of climate change while confronting racial and economic inequality…

Jon Rainwater (2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …

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