Daily Archives: December 22, 2020

2020-12-22: News Headlines

Staff (2020-12-22). Faith and the fight against climate change, part 4. therealnews.com In the final episode of this series, Aman Azhar asks: what value do faith-based community groups have in addressing the climate crisis and why is it that we don't hear much about faith groups' engagement with political action on these contemporary issues?

Manuel García, Jr. (2020-12-22). Sustainability is Morality. counterpunch.org For me, the sustainability crisis — of which global warming climate change is a very prominent symptom — is a moral issue. The locus of immorality driving that crisis is the nature of our civilization. Undoing that immorality would require destroying all our politics and economics, and abandoning all our ideologies and religions — which

Marlee Kokotovic (2020-12-22). President-elect Joe Biden appoints his environmental team. nationofchange.org "Folks, we're in a crisis. We literally have no time to waste…"

Josh Kirmsse, Catherine Rocchi (2020-12-22). You Can Refuse to Work for Fossil Fuel Companies—These Law Students Show How. thenation.com You Can Refuse to Work for Fossil Fuel Companies—These Law Students Show How…

The Xerces Society (2020-12-22). Much-Needed Federal Protection for America's Beloved Monarch Butterfly Warranted, but Precluded. indybay.org U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees that monarchs are threatened with extinction, but does not yet provide the protection that monarchs need to recover.

Tom Taylor (2020-12-22). The US's "Best" University Fuels the Climate Crisis. Princeton Must Divest. zcomm.org As young people, we will have to live with the effects of inaction from institutions like Princeton for the rest of our lives. And so, we organize…

D. Raghunandan (2020-12-21). The climate cloud and a thin silver lining. peoplesdispatch.org As many as 45 countries, among them 24 high-emission nations, announced additional cuts than those in their PA commitments by 2030, either at the summit, or over the past few months, despite the sharp economic downturn precipitated by COVID-19.

Tina Gerhardt (2020-12-21). COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Mutual Aid. commondreams.org Mutual aid is not only about addressing the crisis at hand but also about undoing the injustices of colonialism and imperialism. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/disasterrelief.jpeg

Alliance Earth (2020-12-21). Fracking The Okavango: Big Oil Comes For Africa's Greatest Park. globalresearch.ca Canadian oil and gas company Recon Africa said in an August 2020 The …

news.un (2020-12-21). Fruits and vegetables crucial for healthy lives, sustainable world: Guterres. news.un.org The United Nations is marking 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, spotlighting their vital role in human nutrition and food security, as well as urging efforts to improve sustainable production and reduce waste.

commondreams (2020-12-21). TCI: A Cap and Trade for Cars Scheme Would Be Ineffective Climate Policy. commondreams.org ______________________________…

_____ (2020-12-21). Trans Mountain Pipeline Protester Creates New Treetop Camp After Destruction. popularresistance.org The fight over a $12.6-billion federal government pipeline project continues. | This weekend, environmental activist Timothee Govare has moved into a tent 20 metres up in the air. It's among three maple trees near Lost Creek in Burnaby. | "I am here in the canopy of the trees of Lost Creek to prevent their imminent logging preceding the installation of the Trans Mountain pipeline," Govare said in a news release. "I see the urgency of acting on the climate crisis." | This action comes just over a week after CN police cleared out the Holmes Creek Protection Camp. Govare was one of those who were previously occupyin…

RT (2020-12-19). If only they'd listened to Greta: World Economic Forum mocked for comparing CLIMATE CHANGE ON VENUS with that on Earth. rt.com When it comes to the fight against climate change, the boffins at the World Economic Forum think we can learn from the planet Venus, which had its oceans and milder climate wrecked. All that, and nobody on Venus ever drove a car.

The Canary (2020-12-19). David Attenborough commends the US move to rejoin Paris Agreement. thecanary.co David Attenborough has said he cheered when he found out US President-elect Joe Biden plans to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change.The broadcaster, 94, said the world is facing a "real crisis" that could see the majority of the planet's major cities plunged beneath the oceans.He was speaking ahead of the launch of A Perfect Planet, a natural history series he has presented for the BBC. | Discussing the moment when it became clear Biden was to win the presidency and rejoin the Paris Agreement, Attenborough said: "I can't remember actually getting out of my seat and cheering all by myself until that moment…