2022-02-02: News Headlines

Amanda Winstead (2022-02-02). Steps individuals can take to combat climate—change. nationofchange.org What once was considered a trend or an ideological point of view is now a global issue. Climate change is real and taking action to mitigate its effects is necessary. Environmentalists and activists aren't trying to create the perfect world with unrealistic ideologies; they are trying to ensure that the world simply continues to exist. …

Brittani Banks (2022-02-02). More Than Two Dozen Major Lawsuits Are Putting a Price Tag on the Climate Damage Caused by Fossil Fuel Companies. independentmediainstitute.org Four years ago, Boulder, Colorado, sued ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy—owner of the only oil refinery in the state—for climate change-related damages and adaptation expenses. Boulder and its co-plaintiffs, Boulder County and San Miguel County, home to Telluride, estimated the damage caused by extreme weather events would cost them more than $100 million by 2050. As …

_____ (2022-02-01). Bringing Degrowth And Commoning To Fashion. popularresistance.org On the latest episode of my Frontiers of Commoning podcast, I speak with Sara Arnold and Sandra Niessen, two leading activists who are boldly calling for "a radical defashion future" based on degrowth, commoning, and clothing cultures that escape consumerism. Through the organization Fashion Act Now, a growing band of dissident fashionistas want to make the clothing industry more ecologically responsible, relocalized, and culturally in sync with this moment in history, especially with respect to climate change, economic justice, and decolonialization. This means greatly reducing the industry's resource and energy…

Reynard Loki (2022-02-01). Boulder Sued Big Oil for Climate Damages, Then the Marshall Fire Happened. independentmediainstitute.org More than two dozen states, counties and cities have sued major fossil fuel companies for climate-related fraud or damages, or both. By Elliott Negin, Independent Media Institute 4 min read Four years ago, Boulder, Colorado, sued ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy—owner of the only oil refinery in the state—for climate change-related damages and adaptation expenses. Boulder …

Petrina Harley (2022-02-01). We need system change not climate change. greenleft.org.au PM Scott Morrison said Australia would achieve net zero by 2050 'the Australian way'. It is pure spin, argues Petrina Harley.

KQED Live (2022-02-01). Thursday 2/3: What You Can Do About Climate Change. indybay.org Livestream – The Commons, KQED Headquarters…

Oliver Wing, Carolyn Kousky, Jeremy Porter, Paul Bates (2022-02-01). New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark. nationofchange.org Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows. That's only part of the risk. Despite recent …

Gordon Laxer (2022-02-01). It's Big Oil, not environmentalists, who are foreign-funded. canadiandimension.com Did it not dawn on CAPP that crusading against a pittance of foreign funding of environmentalists trying to block the transportation and carbon pollution of oilsands oil would blow back and reveal just how foreign funded CAPP and Big Oil in Canada are? Photo by Chris Kolaczan/Shutterstock. | The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) may rue the day they made foreign funding a public issue. Three years ago, CAPP head Tim McMillan launched a crusade against "foreign-funded, anti-pipeline" activists. "We have been the victims of a very well-orchestrated, well-planned foreign-funded attack," he ch…

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