Monthly Archives: July 2021

2021-07-19: News Headlines

Blake Skylar (2021-07-19). In Germany and worldwide, climate change-fueled weather crisis wreaks havoc. peoplesworld.org Floods caused by global warming in Germany have left 108 people dead and at least 1,300 others missing. The tragedy is the latest in a pattern of natural disasters worldwide, highlighting the dire reality that devastating weather events will continue and worsen due to climate change. Days before turbid waves ripped through the western part …

Tom Engelhardt (2021-07-19). Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Migration as Resistance. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Give Joe Biden credit. As a 78-year-old mainstream politician, he's made some surprisingly bold moves domestically when it comes, for instance, to climate change — even if his plans have been quite literally paralyzed by Senate Minority Leader …

Susan Price (2021-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf – For a people's green new deal. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents A People's Green New Deal, plus three new books on pandemics and two on the global food crisis.

Ian Angus (2021-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — For a people's green new deal. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents A People's Green New Deal, plus three new books on pandemics and two on the global food crisis.

Paul Gregoire (2021-07-19). Court rules government has a climate duty of care to young people. greenleft.org.au Federal environment minister Sussan Ley is going to challenge a July ruling that the government has a duty of care "to avoid causing personal injury or death" to children when considering the approval of fossil fuel projects. Paul Gregoire reports.

Paul Gregoire (2021-07-19). Court rules gov't has a climate duty of care to young people. greenleft.org.au Federal environment minister Sussan Ley is going to challenge a July ruling that the government has a duty of care "to avoid causing personal injury or death" to children when considering the approval of fossil fuel projects. Paul Gregoire reports.

_____ (2021-07-19). Sunrise Launches Green New Deal Jobs Website to Celebrate Future of Climate-Friendly Work. commondreams.org "It's bad information" about vaccines that is killing people, the president said.

_____ (2021-07-19). In Gift to Rich Tax Cheats, Republicans Strip IRS Funds From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. commondreams.org "We've now reached stratospheric inequality. Billionaires burning into space, away from a world of pandemic, climate change, and starvation."

_____ (2021-07-19). Pushed By Press Freedom Advocates, Garland Limits DOJ's Ability to Seize Reporters' Phone Records. commondreams.org The new tool shows "another future is possible—one that's not extractive and includes fulfilling, good-paying jobs that will revitalize our communities and combat climate change."

_____ (2021-07-19). Internet Companies' $234 Million in Political Spending Harms Efforts to Close Digital Divide: Report. commondreams.org "We don't have to wait for international agreements on the climate and nature crises," the new alliance states. "Change can happen now."

March for Science (2021-07-19). Friday 7/16: SC1.5CE Not Silence: Virutal Climate Action Forum. indybay.org Online forum…

_____ (2021-07-18). Wet Bulb Temperature Is The Scariest Part Of The Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org Wet bulb temperature is one of those features of climate change caused by global warming that often gets left out when discussing the radical changes our planet is going to experience in the coming years. Discussion has largely focused on issues such as drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, storm activity, and even unusual cold. The impacts of increased heat have been left out because we assume, incorrectly it turns out, that human beings can adapt to moderate increases in global temperature. | This turns out to be false, particularly in areas prone to hot and humid weather. It all comes down to one measure: wet bulb t…

Center For Biological Diversity (2021-07-18). Biodiversity Negotiations Fail to Call for Global Halt to Species Extinctions. globalresearch.ca

Juan Cole (2021-07-18). Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control. zcomm.org The climate scientists who are cautiously suggesting that climate change is becoming nonlinear are saying we just went through the looking glass…

Julia Conley (2021-07-18). Climate Experts Shocked at Severity of Floods in Germany and Belgium. zcomm.org "This is your climate on fossil fuel."

Michael Mann (2021-07-18). Floods, Fires & Heat Waves. zcomm.org Interview on on "The New Climate War" & the Fight to Take Back the Planet…

_____ (2021-07-18). Despite Climate Crisis, Governments Failing to Use Covid Stimulus for Green Recovery. commondreams.org While giving the protests in Cuba a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.

Staff (2021-07-18). Detroit's Prison Population Will Soon Be Stuck Living Next to a Toxic Site. truthout.org "It felt all too real," Siwatu-Salama Ra said from her home in Detroit, Michigan. Her lifelong struggles against two injustices plaguing her community — pollution and incarceration — had become fused in a surreal way. | Three years ago, Ra,

_____ (2021-07-18). US Drilling Approvals Increase Despite Biden Climate Pledge. popularresistance.org Billings, Montana — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden's reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance. | The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20. | New Mexico and Wyo…

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2021-07-18: News Headlines

Center For Biological Diversity (2021-07-18). Biodiversity Negotiations Fail to Call for Global Halt to Species Extinctions. globalresearch.ca

March for Science (2021-07-18). Friday 7/16: SC1.5CE Not Silence: Virutal Climate Action Forum. indybay.org Online forum…

Juan Cole (2021-07-18). Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control. zcomm.org The climate scientists who are cautiously suggesting that climate change is becoming nonlinear are saying we just went through the looking glass…

Julia Conley (2021-07-18). Climate Experts Shocked at Severity of Floods in Germany and Belgium. zcomm.org "This is your climate on fossil fuel."

Michael Mann (2021-07-18). Floods, Fires & Heat Waves. zcomm.org Interview on on "The New Climate War" & the Fight to Take Back the Planet…

Staff (2021-07-18). Detroit's Prison Population Will Soon Be Stuck Living Next to a Toxic Site. truthout.org "It felt all too real," Siwatu-Salama Ra said from her home in Detroit, Michigan. Her lifelong struggles against two injustices plaguing her community — pollution and incarceration — had become fused in a surreal way. | Three years ago, Ra,

_____ (2021-07-17). Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against Sheriff. popularresistance.org Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota. | The Hubbard County Sheriff has unlawfully blockaded access to a camp serving as a convergence space and home for Indigenous-led organizing, decolonization and treaty rights trainings, and religious activities by water pro…

_____ (2021-07-17). Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against MN Sheriff. popularresistance.org Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota.

The Conversation (2021-07-17). Why our climate emergency is forcing conservationists to be more ambitious: by moving threatened species to new pastures. juancole.com By Sarah Elizabeth Dalrymple | — ( The Conversation) — As climate change brings record droughts and floods, extended fire seasons continue to make headlines, and the role of humans in this terrible situation is now undisputed, institutional change has been slow and unsteady. In particular, conservationists have been wary of pointing to climate change …

Juan Cole (2021-07-17). With Massive Flooding in Germany, Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Our burning of gasoline, coal and natural gas on a massive global scale, putting tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually, is turning the earth into . . . well, a greenhouse. Greenhouses are closed up, keeping in heat and moisture. In a greenhouse, the …

_____ (2021-07-17). Animal Extinction Protesters Blockade McDonalds Factory. popularresistance.org The 'animal and climate justice' movement said that around 100 protestors set up a blockade using trucks, tents, bamboo structures in the early hours of Thursday morning to stop the facility from distributing burgers. Trucks with the sign "McMurder" stood outside the factory while police vans encircled the area.

_____ (2021-07-17). Greenland Bans All Oil Exploration. popularresistance.org The government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world's largest island, calling it "a natural step" because the Arctic government "takes the climate crisis seriously." | No oil has been found yet around Greenland, but officials there had seen potentially vast reserves as a way to help Greenlanders realize their long-held dream of independence from Denmark by cutting the subsidy of the equivalent of about $680 million Canadian the Danish territory receives from the Danish government every year. | Global warming means that retreating ice could uncover potential oil and mineral resourc…

Staff (2021-07-17). Manchin Wants to Invest More Taxpayer Money in Propping Up Fossil Fuel Industry. truthout.org The time has come for Democrats in Congress to debate the future of the fossil fuel industry as they write sweeping climate legislation that could define President Joe Biden's legacy. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), a conservative Democrat and a key vote in the Senate, drew a line in the sand this week, telling fellow Democrats and media outlets that eliminating fossil fuels is off the table. | Instead of phasing out fossil fuels and investing heavily in cleaner energy sources such as…

David Skripac (2021-07-17). "Our Species is Being Genetically Modified": Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Analysis of the Microbiome and Virome. globalresearch.ca This year marks a turning point in human history. For the first time since human civilization began, our species is being genetically modified. Vaccine manufacturers have now made it possible for the human genome to be permanently altered —and humanity's relationship with nature forever changed.

_____ (2021-07-17). Companies Must Disclose—and Face—Mounting Climate Risks. commondreams.org

Ashley Curtin (2021-07-17). 'Dirty Truth': New campaign exposes utilities failing to deliver on climate pledges. nationofchange.org "This ad brings to light the true cost of fossil fuels—our health, our livelihood, and our future—and the truth that many American utility companies are purposefully misleading the public about their commitments to switch to green electricity."

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