Daily Archives: April 19, 2020

2020-04-19: News Headlines

The Canary (2020-04-19). David Attenborough issues a vital plea to 'cherish' our 'precious world'. thecanary.co David Attenborough has urged people to "stop waste of any kind", saying the world is precious and should be "celebrated and cherished".The broadcaster and naturalist warned humans have a "last chance" to change their behaviour and save the planet, as he urged politicians to address "the biggest problem humanity has ever faced".In an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Attenborough said it will be the younger generation who will have to make changes because "they will be able to see the consequences of what they do". | He added: "My lot are dying off and we are the ones that caused the problem."He suggested p…

Juan Cole (2020-04-19). Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World? zcomm.org Egypt is one of the countries most vulnerable to the climate emergency and global heating…

Seattle Arts & Lectures (2020-04-19). Earth Day: Climate Conversation w/ Elizabeth Colbert, Pulitzer Prize Author & Journalist. indybay.org Online…

Staff (2020-04-19). Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases. truthout.org As the "Climate…

Pacific Environment & Climate Works Found. (2020-04-19). Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar). indybay.org Online via Zoom…

One Earth Film Festival (2020-04-19). Earth Week Film: 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste' Virtual Screening + Discussion (free). indybay.org Online streaming…

Eds. (2020-04-18). Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic. mronline.org After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it's easy to see how epidemiology came next.

Eds. (2020-04-18). The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries. mronline.org Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.

Staff (2020-04-18). COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism. truthout.org We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As <...

WSWS (2020-04-18). Ukrainian capital Kiev engulfed in smog from wildfires near Chernobyl. wsws.org The fires expose the fact that the world's worst nuclear catastrophe remains unresolved and continues to threaten the health of the population.

Lorraine Chow (2020-04-17). 5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published in 2016. | Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject One-hundred organizations representing more than …

Kuehn BM. (2020-04-14). Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination. jamanetwork.com An immunocompromised Wisconsin man in his 70s died from an infection with a strain of Legionella bacteria traced to water supplies in his home, according to a CDC report.

H. Patricia Hynes (2020-04-04). Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis. zcomm.org What we—citizens, corporations, courts and government—do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…

Jeremy Brecher (2020-04-04). First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike? zcomm.org 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…

CounterSpin (2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.

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, …

Suzanne O'Keeffe (2019-07-24). MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with XR. peoplesparty.org with Extinction Rebellion climate activists | MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with Extinction Rebellion climate activists after supergluing themselves to Congress in mass civil disobedience: | Washington, D.C. — Movement for a People's Party National Director Nick Brana was arrested during a protest to block Congress and demand that they join the countries of the UK and Canada and declare a climate emergency. | Brana and 15 people affiliated with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) glued themselves to three underground tunnel entrances leading to the Capitol, blocking access…

2020-04-19: Social Media Postees

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Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World?
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-04-19
Egypt is one of the countries most vulnerable to the climate emergency and global heating…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-covid-19-killing-the-coal-industry-in-egypt-and-around-the-world/

Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar)
Pacific Environment & Climate Works Found. | indybay.org | 2020-04-19
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/19/18832492.php

Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to rage like a wildfire across the planet, its devastating toll has left many asking whether climate change

Earth Day: Climate Conversation w/ Elizabeth Colbert, Pulitzer Prize Author & Journalist
Seattle Arts & Lectures | indybay.org | 2020-04-19
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832470.php

Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to rage like a wildfire across the planet, its devastating toll has left many asking whether climate change

Earth Week Film: 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste' Virtual Screening + Discussion (free)
One Earth Film Festival | indybay.org | 2020-04-19
Online streaming…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832473.php

David Attenborough issues a vital plea to 'cherish' our 'precious world'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-19
David Attenborough has urged people to "stop waste of any kind", saying the world is precious and should be "celebrated and cherished".The broadcaster and naturalist warned humans have a "last chance" to change their behaviour and save the planet, as he urged politicians to address "the biggest problem humanity has ever faced".In an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Attenborough said it will be the younger generation who will have to make changes because "they will be able to see the consequences of what they do". | He added: "My lot are dying off and we are the ones that caused the problem."He suggested p…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/04/19/david-attenborough-issues-a-vital-plea-to-cherish-our-precious-world/

Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it's easy to see how epidemiology came next.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic

The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries

COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-the-delicate-economic-balance-we-all-live-in-under-capitalism/

COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-the-delicate-economic-balance-we-all-live-in-under-capitalism/

Ukrainian capital Kiev engulfed in smog from wildfires near Chernobyl
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
The fires expose the fact that the world's worst nuclear catastrophe remains unresolved and continues to threaten the health of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/ukra-a18.html

5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn
Lorraine Chow | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
This article was originally published in 2016. | Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto's attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country's food and farming systems. | One-hundred organizations representing more than …
globalresearch.ca/5-million-nigerians-oppose-monsantos-plans-introduce-gmo-cotton-corn/5709977

Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-14
An immunocompromised Wisconsin man in his 70s died from an infection with a strain of Legionella bacteria traced to water supplies in his home, according to a CDC report.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764467

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/