Daily Archives: January 12, 2023

2023-01-12: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-01-13). Rosneft Wants to Supply Gas to Power-of-Siberia 2 Pipeline. infobrics.org Russian oil major Rosneft wants to supply natural gas from its fields in the Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions to the Power-of-Siberia 2 pipeline that will supply China via Mongolia…

3 Bay Area & climate partners (2023-01-12). Friday 1/20: Biden: Declare a Climate Emergency! Joye Braun Day of Action Bay Area Rally. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 90 7th Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…

WSWS (2023-01-12). The California floods and the climate crisis. wsws.org Millions have been left to fend for themselves, climbing into attics and onto roofs to escape the rising floodwaters to survive in whatever way they could.

Olivia Rosane (2023-01-12). Biden admin announces first-of-its-kind roadmap to decarbonize US transit by 2050. nationofchange.org "The domestic transportation sector presents an enormous opportunity to drastically reduce emissions that accelerate climate change and reduce harmful pollution."

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2023-01-12). Warning: U.S. capitalism is lethal (and bad for your health). peoplesworld.org Under capitalism, industrial production and consumer buying expand. Greenhouse gases fill the atmosphere, the climate changes, and people die. U.S. leadership of global capitalism leads to wars and from there, potentially, to nuclear annihilation. There is extra dying in the United States now. According to provisional government statistics released in August, life expectancy at birth …

WSWS (2023-01-12). Green Party organises police violence against climate activists in Làºtzerath, Germany. wsws.org The forced evacuation of the village of Làºtzerath to enable open cast mining is being organised by the self-proclaimed "environment party." The state government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats and Greens, has mobilised thousands of police officers from throughout Germany to brutally crack down on the climate protesters.

ecns.cn (2023-01-11). U.S., Canada and Mexico differ at summit. ecns.cn While U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were meeting on Tuesday for a series of talks on migration, trade and climate change at the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City.

Kaden Thaxton (2023-01-11). Climate change, capitalism threaten food security for millions in Texas. liberationnews.org At the heart of the issue is capitalist big agriculture.

_____ (2023-01-11). In Indianapolis, Building A Community Food Ecosystem In An 'Apartheid Zone'. popularresistance.org In Indianapolis' Northeast Corridor, a predominantly Black area with a growing Latinx population, more than half of residents live in a food desert. | One community-led initiative seeks to build a local food ecosystem, one that will not only feed them in times of crisis but will sustain their health, wealth and wellbeing for generations to come. | In 2021, in the climate of the ongoing pandemic, the Equitable Food Access Initiative (EFAI) was created to address these dueling public health crises, in one of the top five cities in the country with the most people living in "food deserts," or areas where low-income…

_____ (2023-01-11). 'No Time to Lose': 300+ Groups Push Biden to End Drilling on Public Lands, Waters. popularresistance.org More than 300 environmental and Indigenous rights groups said Wednesday that the Biden administration must take a number of concrete actions to protect the nation's public lands and waters from fossil fuel industry exploitation and bring U.S. policy into line with climate science—and the president's own campaign pledges. | In a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the climate coalition noted that President Joe Biden "made a bold promise to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters, and within days of taking office issued his Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Hom…

Charlie Wood (2023-01-11). As we confront the climate crisis, is bigger and faster always better? nationofchange.org Is starting small and slow the gateway to the most meaningful social change?>

Franc Contreras (2023-01-11). Fighting climate change jointly in North America. america.cgtn.com North American leaders are back home on Wednesday after their two-day summit in Mexico City. Among the key announcements they made is a decision to "move boldly," in their words, and create coordinated policies to combat climate change. Learn more.

Jake Johnson (2023-01-11). More Than 300 Groups Push Biden to End Drilling on Public Lands and Waters. truthout.org More than 300 environmental and Indigenous rights groups said Wednesday that the Biden administration must take a number of concrete actions to protect the nation's public lands and waters from fossil fuel industry exploitation and bring U.S. policy into line with climate science — and the president's own campaign pledges. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland… |

John Feffer (2023-01-11). The Rise of Self-Hating Politicians. fpif.org House Republicans, Euroskeptics, Vladimir Putin, and Jair Bolsonaro are the agents of a new kind of political disorder that parallels the chaos of failing states, economic catastrophe, and climate disasters.

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-11). The Oceans' Temperatures Reached Record Highs in 2022. truthout.org New research finds that the amount of heat soaked up by the Earth's oceans reached a record high for the sixth year in a row in 2022 — a show of the dire need to address the climate crisis to protect life as it is currently known on Earth. Research published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on Wednesday shows that ocean heat content hit its hottest point in the historical record last year… |

Otis Grotewohl (2023-01-11). Stop Israel's racist genocide! Free Palestine! workers.org The racist, apartheid government of Israel wasted no time in starting off the new year by murdering two young Palestinian men, while threatening further Zionist settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces murdered 22-year-old Mohammad Samer Hoshiyeh and 25-year-old Fouad Mohammad Abed on Jan. 2 in Kufr Dan, . . . |

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