(2021-08-30). Ida: The Climate Emergency and Fossil Fuels, not Afghan terrorists, just Knocked out Power to America's 4th-Largest Port. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The two big stories on Sunday, of the continued evacuation effort at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the landfall of Hurricane Ida on the coast of Louisiana have something in common. Both are about potential threats to the United States. America's national security elites and arms manufacturers …
(2021-08-30). The Climate Emergency, not Afghan terrorists, Knocked out Power to 4th-Largest Port. zcomm.org The big terrorist threat, ever more damaging hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and floods, comes from our addiction to fossil fuels…
(2021-08-30). Workers refuse to shoulder the burden for the bosses' climate crisis. mronline.org 
The United Nations issued a "code red for humanity" warning earlier this month with over 3,000 pages of scientific documentation saying that the climate crisis has reached a point where we can expect extreme weather including heat waves, flooding and droughts to happen with more frequency and intensity.
(2021-08-30). ÔªøHurricane Ida is 'Ôªøthe poster child for a climate change-driven disaster'. therealnews.com 
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(2021-08-30). Climate Crises Converge as Wildfire Burns West and Hurricane Pummels South. truthout.org 
Hurricane Ida made landfall in Southern Louisiana on Sunday as one of Scientists say that…
(2021-08-30). Exxon's Oil Drilling Gamble Off Guyana Coast Could Turn Country from a Carbon Sink to a "Carbon Bomb" democracynow.org 
Despite desperate climate warnings against new fossil fuel development, ExxonMobil is pursuing a massive new oil project in Guyana that is projected to be the corporation's largest oil production in the world. A new investigation by Antonia Juhasz, a longtime oil and energy investigative reporter, reveals the project will release 125 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, turning Guyana from a carbon sink into what she says could be a "carbon bomb" and posing major environmental risks.
(2021-08-30). California denies 42 new fracking permits, but approves 1,019 oil and gas permits. indybay.org "It's encouraging to see CalGEM denying more fracking permits, particularly as California weathers a devastating drought and wildfire season induced by climate change," said Food & Water Watch's California Director Alexandra Nagy. "This is progress. But make no mistake, it is not enough."
(2021-08-30). Hurricane Ida Deemed a 'Poster Child' for Climate Disaster as Storm Slams Louisiana. commondreams.org
(2021-08-30). Climate Progress Is On Fire. dailyposter.com 
(2021-08-30). Hurricane Ida Hits Oil Industry in Black & Native Communities on Louisiana Coast Amid Climate Crisis. democracynow.org 
Two-thirds of Louisiana's industrial sites lie in the path of Hurricane Ida, including oil refineries, storage tanks and other infrastructure like oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana's Gulf Coast is a major oil and gas hub, with 17 oil refineries, two liquefied natural gas export terminals, as well as a nuclear power plant and many Superfund sites. Oil spills and chemical releases due to climate change-intensified storms are a "worsening, consistent problem" in Louisiana's Gulf Coast, says Antonia Juhasz, a longtime oil and energy investigative journalist. Communities of color living on the Gulf Coast…
(2021-08-30). 1.6M Moderna Doses Withdrawn in Japan Over Contamination. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-30). UC Davis Study Finds Dams Are Ineffective for Cold-Water Conservation for Salmon and Trout. indybay.org Ann Willis, the study's lead author, says the solution to creating cold water habitat to stop the extinction of salmon and trout populations is to remove dams and restructure water management in California.
(2021-08-29). Contrasting US Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Trump's Abrupt Departure From Syria. commondreams.org Raj Patel's new film follows one Malawian activist's efforts to bring the immediacy of climate change to the U.S.
(2021-08-29). On Contact: Mainstream Environmental Movement Lies. popularresistance.org On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the lies and fantasies told by the mainstream environmental movement about how to solve the climate crisis with authors and activists Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith. | A new book shows how technology will not solve our environmental crisis. We will not extract ourselves from the death march toward extinction by recycling, building wind turbines, relying on solar panels or driving electric cars. This is a fantasy sold to us by an environmental movement that promises we can continue to indulge in orgies of consumption and maintain the levels of waste and perpetual growth t…
(2021-08-29). Forget Wars on Covid and Terror: War on Climate Collapse Is the Only War of Necessity for Human Survival. dissidentvoice.org 
Mythology of humans' natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, finally, around 300,000 years ago in Africa. Etymologically, homo means human and sapiens means wise or knowledgeable. One can see that in this 18th century anthropocentric characterization of our species, the …
(2021-08-29). Europe Seeks Solutions As It Grapples With Catastrophic Wildfires. popularresistance.org As wildfires ravage the Mediterranean region, many have asked if such blazes are an inescapable part of global warming or whether steps can be taken to reverse the trend. | A colossal heatwave, with temperatures hitting a record 48.8 degrees Celsius in Italy last week, has stoked the wildfires that have devastated swaths of land and killed dozens of people across southern Europe and North Africa, from Turkey, Greece and Italy to Morocco and Algeria. | "What's clear is that climate change will lead us to see [more of] such events," French President Emmanuel Macron said this week after traveling to the Saint-Tropez…
(2021-08-29). Don't Expect Real Climate Solutions From COP26. It Functions for Corporations. truthout.org 
In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in the U.K. in November — the 26th session of the talks that were launched in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 — the governments of the world's richest countries are making ever-louder claims that they are effectively confronting global warming. Nothing could be more dangerous than for social, labor and environmental movements to take this rhetoric at face value and assume that political leaders have the situation under co…
(2021-08-29). The Power of Personalizing the Climate Crisis. commondreams.org The billions our billionaires are grabbing currently face a next-to-nothing tax rate.
(2021-08-29). The Red Deal to save Earth. greenleft.org.au The primary inspiration for The Red Deal was the People's Agreement of Cochabamba, adopted at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in 2010, writes Simon Butler.
(2021-08-29). Arrests Made As Water Protectors Rally At Governor's Residence. popularresistance.org St. Paul, MN – On Saturday morning, hundreds of people participated in a march from the MN State Capitol to the Governor's residence led by pipeline resistance camp Camp Migizi. According to a statement from an organizer, Jaike Spotted-Wolf, Camp Migizi assembled at the Governor's mansion to peacefully protest against Line 3, and for treaty rights and Indigenous Sovereignty. Armed police with riot gear have arrested over 50 Water Protectors with more arrests ongoing. | Since Wednesday's Treaties Not Tar Sands Rally to Stop Line 3, a group of peaceful water protectors were holding ceremonial space on the Capitol l…
(2021-08-29). Experts Warn of 'Potentially Catastrophic' Destruction as Hurricane Ida Reaches New Orleans. commondreams.org "Water protectors marched 256 miles from the headwaters of the Mississippi River to speak with this gentleman," an Indigenous organizer said of Gov. Tim Walz. "He has not come to listen to their voices and so we came here."