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2022-12-02: News Headlines

Rachel Evans (2022-12-02). NSW anti-protest laws put non-violent climate activist in jail. greenleft.org.au Climate activist Violet CoCo to 15 month's prison for blocking vehicles, possessing a bright light distress signal and refusing to comply with police directions, reports Rachel Evans.

Binoy Kampmark (2022-12-02). Climate change to make Tuvalu the world's first 'digital nation'. greenleft.org.au In response to the existential threat of climate change, the Tuvaluan government has announced it will become the world's first "digital nation". Binoy Kampmark reports.

Jim McIlroy (2022-12-02). NAB: Stop funding Whitehaven Coal. greenleft.org.au Climate activists talked to customers going into the Newtown branch of the National Australia Bank about helping stop the bank funding Whitehaven Coal's expansion. Jim McIlroy reports.

David Killingly (2022-12-02). Forum discusses fight against fossil fuel industry. greenleft.org.au Climate Coalition Sydney organised a forum that heard from four union and environmental activists fighting against the Australian government's fossil fuel expansionism. David Killingly reports.

____ (2022-12-02). New major gas pipeline begins trial operations. ecns.cn The Shenmu-Anping coal bed methane pipeline, China's longest such pipeline, was put into trial operation on Thursday, which will eventually ensure sufficient domestic gas supply.

Brittani Banks (2022-12-01). 'The Ax Always Falls on the Most Vulnerable': Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice. independentmediainstitute.org Even as the floodwaters have receded, the people of Pakistan are still trying to grapple with the death and devastation the floods have left in their wake. The floods that swept across the country between June and September have killed more than 1,700 people, injured more than 12,800, and displaced millions as of November 18. …

Anjoulie Woodhead (2022-12-01). UN Climate Conference Agrees on Fund to Address Climate Change Impacts in Developing Count. indybay.org COP27 Agreement Asserts Climate Change Results in High Debts and Development Failures…

Carter Dillard (2022-12-01). Populist climate action requires thinking about freedom from specific oppressors—not just species survival. nationofchange.org The climate crisis is a form of oppression by a wealthy few.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-12-01). World needs urgent action on climate change to prevent food crisis, say Kalibata. imperial.ac.uk The world needs to stop global temperatures rising by 1.5 degrees to prevent a global food crisis, says AGRA's Dr Agnes Kalibata.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2022-12-01). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-12-01). Promoting plant-based diet in Mexico. america.cgtn.com It's been well documented that eating a meat-based diet contributes to global warming, with livestock farming tied to significant CO2, methane and nitrous oxide emissions. And while plant-based alternatives may be common options in the U.S. and across Europe, the vegan movement remains small in many …

Mike Ludwig (2022-12-01). Fracking Firm Agrees to Pay a Small Town's Water Bills for 75 Years. truthout.org A fossil fuel company was convicted of criminal charges in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, more than a decade after an early fracking operation poisoned drinking water for residents of the small town of Dimock and sparked one of the first major controversies to arise from the oil and gas boom. After years of legal wrangling, the company formerly known as Cabot Oil & Gas agreed to plead no contest to 15… |

____ (2022-12-01). China's longest coal bed methane pipeline begins trial operation. ecns.cn China's longest coal bed methane pipeline, the Shenmu-Anping pipeline, was put into trial operation on Thursday, said its operator China National Offshore Oil Corp, the country's largest offshore driller.

_____ (2022-12-01). China To Run United Nations Biodiversity Conference. popularresistance.org As the world parses what was achieved at the U.N. climate change conference in Egypt, negotiators are convening in Montreal to set goals for curbing Earth's other crisis: loss of living species. | Starting on Dec. 7, 196 nations that have ratified the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity will hold their 15th Conference of the Parties, or COP15. The convention, which was adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, is designed to promote sustainable development by protecting biodiversity — the variety of life on Earth, from genes up to entire ecosystems. | Today, experts widely agree that biodivers…

_____ (2022-11-30). The Greenwashing Scam Behind COP27's Flop. popularresistance.org As the annual UN climate conference, COP27, came to a close in late November, the talks produced a lot of lofty rhetoric but little concrete progress on the gravest threat facing humanity today. | There was one very important positive development: After years of demands by poor countries in the Global South suffering the worst impacts of climate disasters, the COP27 agreement finally established a "loss and damage" fund for the wealthy countries most responsible for climate change to compensate poor countries for climate disasters. | Much remains undecided, including the size of the fund, its governance structure…

John Feffer (2022-11-30). What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South? fpif.org To keep the planet from overheating, there's just so much more carbon that humans can pump into the atmosphere. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution until today, humanity has used up approximately Equ…

SP Editor (2022-11-30). What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change? scheerpost.com Michael Klare takes a tiny bit of genuine good news — the U.S. and China, the globe's two greatest carbon emitters, are again at least talking about climate change — and tries to imagine where those two governments could actually go if they truly decided to cooperate.

Kenny Stancil (2022-11-30). 'Finally, Some Justice': Fracking Company to Pay Millions for Poisoning Town's Water. commondreams.org "This case proves once and for all that drilling and fracking contaminated our drinking water," said one Dimock, Pennsylvania resident.

____ (2022-11-30). Rare Royal Turtle with severely fractured shell rescued in Cambodia. ecns.cn A fisherman living along the Sre Ambel River in southwest Cambodia's Koh Kong province has recently spotted a nearly extinct Royal Turtle with a severely fractured shell, a conservationist group said on Tuesday.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-30). Worthy and Unworthy Protest. libya360.wordpress.com Margaret Kimberley Protesters at 2021 Kill the Bill march in London (Photo: Extinction Rebellion) Protesters in some nations are celebrated. Others are ignored. Protest is a human right to be respected but instead can be used as a pretext for nefarious motives such as regime change. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is on…

Maria Parazo Rose (2022-11-30). Biden administration proposes new rule targeting methane emissions on indigenous land. peoplesworld.org The Bureau of Land Management proposed a new rule Monday that aims to reduce wasted natural gas on federal and Tribal lands which will help tamp down methane releases. By preventing billions of cubic feet of natural gas emissions that come from unintentional equipment leaks or deliberate venting and flaring, the federal government hopes to curb the …

Ramon du Houx (2022-11-30). LA City Councilmember Koretz's Last Call For Aggressive Climate Action. indybay.org Koretz introduced three pieces of aggressive climate legislation: one aimed to ban the sale of new gas cars in stages, beginning in 2028 with the most expensive vehicles to fully implement by 2030; one to create a significant greenhouse gas emissions fee for private jets landing at Los Angeles airports; and one aimed to use the truth of the dangers posed to LAX and Silicon Beach by the SoCalGas Playa Vista Natural Gas Storage facility to shut it down…

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