Daily Archives: September 2, 2022

2022-09-02: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-02). Climate, conflicts raise stakes in hungry world. ecns.cn Millions of people struggling for food every day are seeing their hopes dimmed by soaring grain prices and tight supplies amid the impact of climate change and Western sanctions on Russia.

____ (2022-09-02). 500,000-year-old giant elephant tusk discovered in Israel. ecns.cn A 500,000-year-old elephant tusk was discovered in Israel's southern coastal plain. The 2.5-meter-long tusk fossil, which belonged to a straight-tusked elephant known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus apparently appeared in the region about 800,000 years ago and became extinct 400,000 years ago.

Brett Wilkins (2022-09-01). Green Groups Rip 'Dangerous and Dumb' $1.4 Billion Bailout of California Nuclear Plant. commondreams.org Keeping Diablo Creek open is "the riskiest pathway to deepen California's commitment to fighting climate change while supplying reliable energy," said Friends of the Earth.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-01). Why Germany Needs a Revolution, and What Type. southfront.org Written by Germany's newsmedia — echoing America's — have attributed the soaring fuel-prices to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which clearly is a lie, because the source is clearly Germany's anti-Russian sanctions and termination of the Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline and other supplies into Germany of the least-expensive fuels-sources, which had been Ru…

WSWS (2022-09-01). Berlin Senate imposes education cuts and encourages the contamination of the city schools. wsws.org In the face of growing criticism of the Senate's irresponsible policy, Education Senator Astrid-Sabine Busse (SPD) and the city's mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) confront pupils, parents and teachers with outright hostility.

____ (2022-09-01). Germany says Russian gas deliveries halted via Nord Stream 1. ecns.cn Russian gas supplies to Germany via the important Nord Stream 1 pipeline were reduced to zero again on Wednesday, Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has confirmed.

Center For Biological Diversity (2022-09-01). Biden Administration Backs Offshore Fracking in California. globalresearch.ca

Julia Conley (2022-09-01). New 'Blame Wall Street' Campaign Launched as Climate Emergency Grips Planet. commondreams.org "These companies could stop the flow of money to fossil fuels today, but they are choosing greed instead," said organizers with the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition.

Ulrich Thielemann (2022-09-01). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.

____ (2022-09-01). Premier calls for more steps to improve business climate. ecns.cn China will take further steps to foster an enabling business climate and lower government-imposed transaction costs, to continuously ease the burden on market players and unleash their vitality.

Alec Connon, Arielle Swernoff (2022-09-01). As the World Floods and Burns, It's Time to Hold Wall Street to Account. commondreams.org This fall, we're calling for a wave of escalated actions on the banks, insurers, and investors funding the climate crisis.

_____ (2022-08-31). There's No Place For Burnout In A Burning World. popularresistance.org By the age of 10, I was terrified about the state of the world. I wanted to quit school and volunteer for environmental and human rights groups. Instead, I distributed leaflets in my neighborhood and attended rallies with my dad. At 14, I watched "An Inconvenient Truth." At 15, I read a National Geographic article about coal — how it planted cancer in people's lungs, stole their breath, and polluted their water. This broke my heart and, in the midst of that brokenness, I devoted my life to stopping climate change. | Fast forward a decade, and I'd had the privilege of working in several nonprofits, including…

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