F. William Engdahl (2022-12-03). Climate and the Money Trail. globalresearch.ca The very mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy who have wreaked so much damage to our environment are the leading backers of the "grassroots" climate movement. Is it pangs of guilty conscience, or could it be a deeper agenda of the financialization of the very air we breathe and more?
_____ (2022-12-02). The Volatility Of US Hegemony In Latin America, Part I. popularresistance.org Latin America and the Caribbean have again began to take on a becoming pink complexion, all the more so with June's historic electoral victory in Colombia over the country's long-dominant US-backed rightwing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the rightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, came after similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018. | This electoral wave, according to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, speaking at the Climate Summit in November, "open[s] a new geopolitical age to Lati…
April Lanuza (2022-12-02). Saving a historic African America cemetery from climate change. america.cgtn.com Historic sites in the United States have long fought for preservation funding and recognition. But now, many of them are facing a new challenge: climate change.
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.
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.
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.
Martha Grevatt (2022-12-02). Worldwide actions demand: 'Make Amazon pay!'. workers.org 
Protesting Amazon's treatment of workers and its practices that contribute to the climate crisis, coordinated demonstrations in over 30 countries on five continents demanded, "Make Amazon pay!" Held for the third consecutive year on Nov. 25 — "Black Friday" — the actions were called by a broad global coalition of . . . |
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.
____ (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.
_____ (2022-12-02). The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa. popularresistance.org An Okinawan group of activists and physicians known as the Liaison to Protect the Lives of Citizens Against PFAS Contamination has taken the extraordinary step of collecting and analyzing blood samples from 387 residents of the tiny island who live near several U.S. military installations. The results confirm the worst fears of Okinawans regarding the military's reckless use of PFAS over the last 50 years. | Average blood levels for three PFAS compounds: PFOS, PFOA, and PFHxS, were about 25 nanograms per milliliter, (ng/mL), or parts per billion, for those tested from the cities of Ginowan, Kin Town, and Chatan.
_____ (2022-12-02). The US Military Is Poisoning Okinawa. popularresistance.org An Okinawan group of activists and physicians known as the Liaison to Protect the Lives of Citizens Against PFAS Contamination has taken the extraordinary step of collecting and analyzing blood samples from 387 residents of the tiny island who live near several U.S. military installations. The results confirm the worst fears of Okinawans regarding the military's reckless use of PFAS over the last 50 years. | Average blood levels for three PFAS compounds: PFOS, PFOA, and PFHxS, were about 25 nanograms per milliliter, (ng/mL), or parts per billion, for those tested from the cities of Ginowan, Kin Town, and Chatan.
Editor (2022-12-02). Should we be worried about eight billion people? mronline.org 
Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.
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…
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. …
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…