Daily Archives: February 12, 2022

2022-02-12: News Headlines

Jenny Pierson (2022-02-12). Fossil Fuel Companies and Their Mouthpieces Offer Net-Zero Logic on Climate Change. independentmediainstitute.org Everywhere around us there is evidence of climate change, from the increase in winter storms such as New England's late January blizzard, to California's recent record-breaking winter heat wave. Meanwhile, the world's biggest oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP, whose products directly fuel global warming, have done little …

One Earth Film Festival (2022-02-11). Friday 3/11: 2022 One Earth Film Festival (Mar 11). indybay.org Virtual Climate and Ecology Film Festival – FREE…

One Earth Film Festival (2022-02-11). Sunday 3/13: 2022 One Earth Film Festival (Mar 13). indybay.org Virtual Climate and Ecology Film Festival – FREE…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-02-11). "Politics as Usual" Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat. truthout.org There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity's greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. Even the role of science should be exposed to critical inquiry when discussing the dimensions of the climate crisis, considering that technology bears such responsibility for bringing us to the brink of global disaster. This is the theme of my interview with renowne…

_____ (2022-02-11). Wet'suwet'en Approach UN Over Militarization And Rights Violations. popularresistance.org As the movement against the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline project in Canada continues, indigenous Wet'suwet'en activists have approached the United Nations to raise their concerns about indigenous rights violations. In a submission filed to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, February 7, activists of the Gidimt'en clan of Wet'suwet'en raised the issues of forced industrialization, police militarization and violation of the rights of indigenous peoples. | The eight-page document points out that Canada has overlooked its international obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UND…

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