Daily Archives: February 8, 2023

2023-02-08: News Headlines

_____ (2023-02-08). A Degrowth Housing Vision for Maine. popularresistance.org "Imagining a transformative housing path towards degrowth from the perspective of my house and my neighborhood in central Maine means making some assumptions about the general trajectory of humanity, and New England in particular, over the next few years and decades. Using a similar narrative style to Kim Stanley Robinson's novel The Ministry for the Future, or Ted Trainer's writings, I will do my best to write about what I know and what is plausible based on our current political climate and ecological reality. I will be somewhat optimistic in my vision so that I can highlight some changes that I would like to s…

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

teleSUR (2023-02-07). Canary Island Government President Torres Visits Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Angel Torres, the president of the Spain's Canary Islands government, agreed to strengthen cooperation with Cuba in a meeting with this country's Vice President Salvador Valdes. | RELATED: | "Our governments must work together to achieve common challenges, especially the fight against climate change and the development of the tourism sector, which is vital for both economies," Torres stated. | In Cuba, he pa…

WSWS (2023-02-07). Forest fires kill at least 26 in Chile. wsws.org A 14-year drought caused by climate change, criminally reckless forestry industry activity, unusually high temperatures and strong Patagonian winds have created the perfect conditions for the disaster unfolding in Chile.

SAM (2023-02-07). Climate Misinformation Is Flooding Public Schools. progressivehub.net BLANCA BEGERT | GRIST…

_____ (2023-02-08). A Degrowth Housing Vision for Maine. popularresistance.org "Imagining a transformative housing path towards degrowth from the perspective of my house and my neighborhood in central Maine means making some assumptions about the general trajectory of humanity, and New England in particular, over the next few years and decades. Using a similar narrative style to Kim Stanley Robinson's novel The Ministry for the Future, or Ted Trainer's writings, I will do my best to write about what I know and what is plausible based on our current political climate and ecological reality. I will be somewhat optimistic in my vision so that I can highlight some changes that I would like to s…

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

teleSUR (2023-02-07). Canary Island Government President Torres Visits Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Angel Torres, the president of the Spain's Canary Islands government, agreed to strengthen cooperation with Cuba in a meeting with this country's Vice President Salvador Valdes. | RELATED: | "Our governments must work together to achieve common challenges, especially the fight against climate change and the development of the tourism sector, which is vital for both economies," Torres stated. | In Cuba, he pa…

WSWS (2023-02-07). Forest fires kill at least 26 in Chile. wsws.org A 14-year drought caused by climate change, criminally reckless forestry industry activity, unusually high temperatures and strong Patagonian winds have created the perfect conditions for the disaster unfolding in Chile.

SAM (2023-02-07). Climate Misinformation Is Flooding Public Schools. progressivehub.net BLANCA BEGERT | GRIST…

Staff (2023-02-07). Melting Glaciers Show Why Climate Targets Below 1.5 ∞C Are Needed. truthout.org Eighty-five percent of Northern Hemisphere glaciers terminating in the ocean have been retreating since 2000. Nine-thousands gigatons of ice have melted from glaciers since the 1960s increasing ocean levels by over an inch, with the rate of glacier ice loss tripling since 1990. Two-thirds of land-based glaciers are on track to disappear by 2100. However, glaciers worldwide have also been… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-07). Nicaraguan Ambassador: Only Socialist and Revolutionary Countries are Putting People Over Profit. libya360.wordpress.com Below we are pleased to publish the text of the powerful speech given by Guisell Morales Echaverry, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland, to the event we recently co-organised at the Marx Memorial Library in London, Socialist solutions to the climate crisis. Guisell notes it's the socialist and progressive…

_____ (2023-02-08). Growing Body of Research Suggests Offshore Oil's Methane Pollution Is Underestimated. popularresistance.org Over the course of several flights in 2021, they spotted frequent gas plumes from platforms, storage tanks, and pipelines offshore, leading the team to believe that the 151 platforms near the Louisiana coast had a much higher methane leak rate than what's been measured for onshore oil and gas production. | "I think the bottom line message in this study is there's a lot of emissions in the shallow waters that are currently unmeasured," said Riley Duren, the CEO of Carbon Mapper and coauthor of the nonprofit's 2022 study of offshore methane emissions.

Lyn Neeley (2023-02-08). Portland: City workers walk off the job. workers.org As we go to press, the city employees won a new contract. Read more at workers.org More than 600 Portland city employees, working without a contract since June, walked off of their jobs Feb. 2, because the city refused to pay them wages they need to survive Portland's rising cost-of-living . . . |

teleSUR (2023-02-07). German Scientists Track Origins of Plastic Waste in Arctic. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the German Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) published a study showing that plastic waste found in the Arctic originated from all around the world. | RELATED: | One-third of plastic waste that still bore imprints or labels allowing analysis of its origin came from Europe, according to the study, which was published in the journal Frontiers. Waste from Germany a…

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