Cynthia Kaufman (2022-09-25). We Can Solve the Climate Crisis Without Worrying About Population. commondreams.org "There are technical pathways to a world where 10 billion people can live well and stay within the biophysical limits of the planet's environmental systems."
Julia Conley (2022-09-25). Historic Tropical Storm Fiona Sweeps Homes Into Ocean in Eastern Canada. commondreams.org "Climate change leads to warmer ocean water at higher latitudes," said one Canadian civil engineering professor. "A warmer future increases the probability that more intense storms will reach Canadian coasts."
Binoy Kampmark (2022-09-25). Breaching Human Rights: Australia, Climate Change and the Torres Strait Islands. dissidentvoice.org Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have registered. But in 1994, the Toonen decision filtered through the Australian legal process, leading the federal government to remove archaically noxious provisions in the Tasmanian criminal code criminalising sodomy. The UNHRC has since …
Leon Kunstenaar (2022-09-25). Oakland Youths Join Global Climate Strike Protests. indybay.org Youth vs Acopalypse Says "No to Coal in Oakland" in rally and march.
Ramon du Houx (2022-09-25). Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance urged to deliver on real climate leadership during Climate Week. indybay.org During Climate Week NYC, after a high level event organized by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, civil society organizations launch a position paper urging the coalition and its members to deliver on commitments to promote a global phase out of oil and gas production, and turn aspirations into bold and ambitious climate action in line with equity, justice, and science. While CA had major laws passed this session, worldwide BOGA should do more to make the change we need to save the planet.
_____ (2022-09-24). Historic Context Of The Referenda In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Russian proxy officials in four regions — Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizka in the south — earlier this week announced plans to hold referendums over four days beginning on Friday. Russia controls nearly all of two of the four regions, Luhansk and Kherson, but only a fraction of the other two, Zaporizka and Donetsk. | Ukrainian officials have dismissed the voting as grotesque theater — staging polls in cities laid to waste by Russian forces and abandoned by most residents. | Ukrainian partisans, sometimes working with special operations forces, have blown up warehouses h…
_____ (2022-09-24). Why Manchin's Side Deal Or 'Permitting Reform' Must Be Blocked. popularresistance.org It seems the mainstream narrative is that the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) is a big step toward addressing the climate crisis while the side deal is a step backwards, but we may not be able to stop it. I disagree; from my perspective, the giveaways to the fossil fuel and nuclear industries in the IRA make it most likely a net negative for the environment. | Renewable energy has been outcompeting fossil fuels in most places; they are much cheaper than nuclear power everywhere. Won't giving subsidies to all three help the previously losing industries most? In any case, subsidies for buying outsize electric vehicle…
_____ (2022-09-24). COP27 To Be Held In Egypt Amid Global Challenges. popularresistance.org African nations are preparing for the United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) scheduled to take place in the Egyptian resort area of Sharm-el-Sheikh from November 6-20. | This gathering is taking place during a period of rising uncertainty due to burgeoning food deficits along with the crisis of accumulation and distribution related to agricultural products in general. | Energy costs have skyrocketed due to several important factors including the Pentagon-NATO war in Ukraine; the failure of the United States government to curtail inflation through price controls utilizing higher taxation rates against corporati…
_____ (2022-09-24). Government Advisor Repeats 'Russia Funded Anti-Fracking Protests' Myth. popularresistance.org A trade advisor to the UK government has repeated a baseless claim that protests against fracking were funded by the Kremlin. | Economist Catherine McBride, a member of the government's Trade and Agriculture Commission advising on trade deals, said on GB News this week that Russia has given "billions of pounds" to green groups to "go and protest against fracking". | As DeSmog has reported previously, this claim has been promoted by opponents of climate action following Russia's invasion of Ukraine despite there being no evidence to support it. | Her remarks come after 24 MPs signed a letter last week organised by…
Andrew Korybko (2022-09-24). Kiev's Foiled Attack Against a Russia-Turkey Pipeline. globalresearch.ca
_____ (2022-09-24). The Climate Movement Was Built For A World Before Climate Change. popularresistance.org We are past the point where "stopping" climate change is really possible. With global temperature rise already above 1 degree Celsius and the window on keeping warming below 1.5 degrees rapidly closing, the consequences of decades of political inaction and corporate malfeasance are already making themselves known. Every month it seems like another part of the world is being hammered by one catastrophic climate impact or another, from flooding in Puerto Rico and Pakistan to the extreme heat that melted asphalt in Europe this past summer to the wildfires raging across western North America. | In the face of this ne…
JANET (2022-09-24). Pakistan: Climate catastrophe caused by Global North. iacenter.org By Tania Siddiqi September 12, 2022 Following months of intense humidity and a catastrophic heat wave — temperatures reaching upwards of 124 F — Pakistan is once again bearing the brunt of the Global North-induced climate crisis. Members of Women's Democratic Front and Progressive Students Federation set up a solidarity, donation relief camp. Credit: Awami Workers Party- Islamabad According to the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the government of Pakistan, due to monsoon rains and melting glaciers, one-third of the country is under water; 33 million people are displac…
Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-24). "Manipulating the Weather is Part of the Military Arsenal, It should be Part of the Climate Discussion": Prof. Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca
Ira Helfand, Marjaneh Moini (2022-09-24). A Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Will Save Lives. commondreams.org "The climate crisis is a public health crisis… And poor people, and in particular poor people of color, are getting hit the hardest."