2021-06-01: News Headlines

Center for Biological Diversity (2021-06-01). Thursday 6/3: "The Condor & The Eagle": Film & Discussion on Indigenous Climate Justice w/ CBD. indybay.org Online event…

Eds. (2021-06-01). Was Marx a climate warrior? mronline.org This is a talk given online at the ESRC Festival of Social Science on November 11, 2020: 'Was Marx a climate warrior?' for a panel organized by Bangor University. | June 1, 2021 | Newswire…

The Conversation (2021-06-01). Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals. juancole.com By Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson | — The Federal Court today dismissed a bid by a group of Australian teenagers seeking to prevent federal environment minister Sussan Ley from approving a coalmine extension in New South Wales. While the teens' request for an injunction was unsuccessful, a number of important developments emerged during the …

Kerry Smith (2021-06-01). Aotearoa New Zealand: Western Sahara activists, XR picket fertiliser plant. greenleft.org.au Western Sahara Solidarity Aotearoa and Extinction Rebellion successfully blockaded the headquarters of Ballance Agri-Nutrients on May 29, reports Kerry Smith.

_____ (2021-05-31). The Healing Web Of Solidarity. popularresistance.org As most of us sat at home during the past year, seeking safety from the pandemic and isolated from each other, we had little to protect us from the onslaught of historic national traumas and anxieties. We watched in horror as over half a million Americans died, millions lost their livelihoods while others had to face the virus at work, an unarmed Black man was slowly murdered by a policeman on camera, and our President encouraged a white rightwing insurrection. All of this is superimposed on the global existential crisis of climate change and the economic abandonment of many places across the country. If years ca…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-31). Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline? counterpunch.org A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade sparking fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route. Line 3 is being replaced in order to enable the transport of nearly 800,000 barrels of dirty tar sands crude oil per day from Calgary,

_____ (2021-05-31). Activist Investors Score Surprise Win With ExxonMobil Board Seats. popularresistance.org During Exxon's annual shareholder meeting, an activist hedge fund called Engine No. 1—which "owns only about 0.02%" of the oil company's stock, according to climate reporter Emily Atkin—ran four of its own director candidates in opposition to the fossil fuel corporation's hand-picked board members. At least two of Engine No. 1's candidates won, with the races for additional boardroom seats too close to call as of this writing.

_____ (2021-05-31). 'A Seismic Shift' for Big Oil: Activist Investors Score Surprise Win With ExxonMobil Board Seats. popularresistance.org During Exxon's annual shareholder meeting, an activist hedge fund called Engine No. 1—which "owns only about 0.02%" of the oil company's stock, according to climate reporter Emily Atkin—ran four of its own director candidates in opposition to the fossil fuel corporation's hand-picked board members. At least two of Engine No. 1's candidates won, with the races for additional boardroom seats too close to call as of this writing.

_____ (2021-05-31). There can be no biodiversity without human diversity. popularresistance.org The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term 'human' encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely different relationship with nature and do not, like Western societies, have this profound dissociation between human and nature. As the famous French anthropologist and student of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Philippe Descola, says: "t…

Jonathan Matthews (2021-05-31). Swiss Voters to Cast Ballots on Pesticide-free Farming Amid Climate of Fear. globalresearch.ca In the run-up …

Jayati Ghosh (2021-05-31). World Trade Organization Is Threatening Vaccine Equity and Climate Goals. zcomm.org Even globally desirable environmental goals are threatened by the way that the WTO functions…

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-31). Climate Crisis and Negligent Policymakers Blamed for 'Record Sickening Levels' of Manatee Deaths in Florida. commondreams.org "Manatees are literally that sentinel species. They're warning us of what else is going to come if we don't do a better job while there's still time to do something about it." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/manatee1300x681.jpg

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