2023-03-25: News Headlines

Kenny Stancil (2023-03-25). Senior Climate Activists Stop Dirty Banks. indybay.org "We will not go to our graves quietly knowing that the financial institutions in our own communities continue to fund the climate crisis," said longtime environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Labor Video Project (2023-03-25). The Pajaro Levee Break, Immigrants, Labor & Climate Crisis With PVFT1936's Pamela Sexton. indybay.org PVFT Local 1936 Delegate Pamela Beth Sexton adult education teacher talks about the effect of the broken levee on the immigrant farmworker community, systemic racism and the role these farmworkers play in our economy.

Sixty Plus (2023-03-25). Are You in Your "Third Act"? These Older Folks Demonstrated to Save the Climate. indybay.org Despite some of the stormiest weather San Francisco has seen in a long time, these brave elders showed up and cut up to stop climate change.

Weekly Trust (2023-03-25). California will respond to the Pan African Congress call for better seed movement. indybay.org Our California Pan African World Food and Ag Pavilion will offer proposed opportunities towards solutions that offer greater access to global seed research and development. 'We need to hear from farmers how we can continuously and sustainably bridge the gap between seed companies and the farming community, now more pronounced mainly by the negative impact of climate change. On our side, we will endeavor to work with the farmers to help increase the resilience and profitability of African farming in the face of climate change and other challenges,'

Mike Walter (2023-03-24). The Heat: Climate Change Crisis. america.cgtn.com Two new reports issue urgent calls for action as climate change heats up. The world is on the brink of catastrophic warming, that's the conclusion of a new report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a blunt assessment …

In These Times. (2023-03-24). Biden Betrays Youth With Willow Project And Breaks His Own Promise. popularresistance.org Despite overwhelming outcry by young people and climate justice advocates, President Joe Biden broke under the pressure of the fossil fuel industry March 13 to approve ConocoPhillips's Willow project‚Äâ—‚Äâthe single largest oil project ever proposed on U.S. federal lands. It's $8 billion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Alaska that impacts Indigenous communities, that will destroy wild landscapes north of the Arctic Circle and will erase nearly all of the climate benefits of Biden's current renewable energy projects on public lands. | Willow also concretely breaks Biden's…




Natalie Burg (2023-03-24). Who Funds the Fight Against Climate Change? globalresearch.ca

Olivia Rosane, Ecowatch. (2023-03-24). First-Of-Its-Kind Study Casts More Shade On Forest Carbon Offsets. popularresistance.org Yet another report has cast doubt on the accuracy and reliability of the carbon credits companies and individuals purchase to offset their climate-polluting emissions. | The first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed study, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change Tuesday, looked at almost 300 projects that made up 11 percent of the carbon credits on offer to date. It found that methods for calculating the carbon credits were often in conflict with scientific best-practices, which increased the risk of "significant over-estimation" of the amount of carbon a project might keep from the atmosphere. The report comes…

Olivia Rosane (2023-03-24). Biden administration unveils nation's first Ocean Climate Action Plan. nationofchange.org "This Ocean Climate Action Plan is the first comprehensive approach that the U.S. has taken to leveraging the power of the ocean in the fight against climate change."

Pip Hinman (2023-03-24). Peace activist: 'Metal shops should be helping the climate transition, not preparing for war'. greenleft.org.au Peace campaigners argue that engineering firms should instead be awarded grants to manufacture components for the climate transition. Pip Hinman reports.

Editor (2023-03-24). Can we still limit global warming to 1.5 ∞C? Here's what the latest science says. mronline.org Is it still possible to limit future global warming to 1.5 ∞C above pre-industrial levels? Or has that ship sailed?>

Anonymous103 (2023-03-24). White House Scribe — The Limits And Hypocrisy Of The U.S. Media. southfront.org Illustrative ImageSouthFront received the following article from one of our constant readers who is "concerned that the US media has been widely criticized for its self-contradictory reporting and selective silence in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion and the Ohio train derailment, which is run counter to "liberal democracy", shows the limits and hypocrisy of the media." | The SF team expresses him its deep gratitude for sharing this valuable opinion. The article was published without any editing. | We encourage our…

Natalie Burg (2023-03-24). Who Funds the Fight Against Climate Change? globalresearch.ca

Olivia Rosane, Ecowatch. (2023-03-24). First-Of-Its-Kind Study Casts More Shade On Forest Carbon Offsets. popularresistance.org Yet another report has cast doubt on the accuracy and reliability of the carbon credits companies and individuals purchase to offset their climate-polluting emissions. | The first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed study, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change Tuesday, looked at almost 300 projects that made up 11 percent of the carbon credits on offer to date. It found that methods for calculating the carbon credits were often in conflict with scientific best-practices, which increased the risk of "significant over-estimation" of the amount of carbon a project might keep from the atmosphere. The report comes…

Olivia Rosane (2023-03-24). Biden administration unveils nation's first Ocean Climate Action Plan. nationofchange.org "This Ocean Climate Action Plan is the first comprehensive approach that the U.S. has taken to leveraging the power of the ocean in the fight against climate change."

Pip Hinman (2023-03-24). Peace activist: 'Metal shops should be helping the climate transition, not preparing for war'. greenleft.org.au Peace campaigners argue that engineering firms should instead be awarded grants to manufacture components for the climate transition. Pip Hinman reports.

Editor (2023-03-24). Can we still limit global warming to 1.5 ∞C? Here's what the latest science says. mronline.org Is it still possible to limit future global warming to 1.5 ∞C above pre-industrial levels? Or has that ship sailed?>

Anonymous103 (2023-03-24). White House Scribe — The Limits And Hypocrisy Of The U.S. Media. southfront.org Illustrative ImageSouthFront received the following article from one of our constant readers who is "concerned that the US media has been widely criticized for its self-contradictory reporting and selective silence in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion and the Ohio train derailment, which is run counter to "liberal democracy", shows the limits and hypocrisy of the media." | The SF team expresses him its deep gratitude for sharing this valuable opinion. The article was published without any editing. | We encourage our…

Naveena Sadasivam (2023-03-24). Pipeline Protests in Utah Could Now Get You at Least Five Years in Prison. truthout.org In Utah, protests that hinder the functioning of fossil fuel infrastructure could now lead to at least five years in prison. The new rules make Utah the 19th state in the country to pass legislation with stiffer penalties for protesting at so-called critical infrastructure sites, which include oil and gas facilities, power plants, and railroads. The new laws proliferated in the aftermath of the… |

Paul Haeder (2023-03-24). More Like Cousteau's Son, Not Bradley Cooper's Twin! dissidentvoice.org I'm back at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon, part of the Oregon State University campus harboring marine mammal-fisheries-benthic-ocean researchers and students. The topic: How humans decimated whale populations through hundreds of years of industrial whaling, leaving some species and populations on the brink of extinction. But despite these impacts, many whale populations …

Brenda Norrell (2023-03-24). No Place for Whales: The U.S. Military's Legacy in Indian Country: Reckless Toxic Dumping. indybay.org From the mustard gas pit on Walker River Paiute lands, to the napalm burn site on Fallon Paiute Shoshone lands, to the undetonated bombs in the Lakota Badlands, to the experimental explosives at Fort Wingate in New Mexico and secret radioactive waste dump near the Tohono O'odham Nation capital of Sells, Arizona, to the widespread illegal hazardous waste dumping, and leaking of toxic waste, in many of the Alaskan and Hawaiian islands — there is enough documented cancer-causing waste to fill an encyclopedia.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-24). Resistance to pension reform in France intensifies. peoplesdispatch.org Massive mobilizations rocked France on Thursday, March 23. Workers have given an ultimatum to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding that his government withdraw the pension reform that was passed without a vote in parliament. | According to estimates by unions, a total of around 3.5 million people hit the streets in more than 250 locations across France on Thursday. | Workers have continued work stoppages in critical areas including energy, transportation, railways, seaports, airports, industries, school, colleges and universities, municipal services including waste management, and tightened blockades of maj…

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