Daily Archives: April 1, 2023

2023-04-01: News Headlines

Carine Visschers (2023-04-01). Climate protesters demand National Australia Bank stops greenwashing. greenleft.org.au Climate activists protested outside the National Australia Branch's Corporate Tower Branch as part of Move Beyond Coal's national focus against greenwashing. Carine Visschers reports.

Jim McIlroy (2023-04-01). Activists tell National Australia Bank to end support for Whitehaven Coal. greenleft.org.au Climate activists gathered outside the Newtown branch of the National Australia Bank on March 30 to demand the bank stop funding Whitehaven Coal. Jim McIlroy reports.

Labor Video Project (2023-04-01). Pajaro Farmworkers, Class, Climate & Justice With Pamela Sexton & Elon Ortez. indybay.org Thousands of farmworkers and their families are fighting for survival after a flood and dangerous health and safety conditions.

Marina Romanello, Wenjia Cai, Anthony Costello, Stella Hartinger, Kris Murray, Georgiana Gordon Stratchan (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] No climate change justice in lieu of global authorship equity — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Climate change is the biggest threat to individual and public health of this century.1 But although no country is immune, people living in low-income settings (which historically contributed the least to the climate crisis) are disproportionately affected.2 Through its annual reports, the Lancet Countdown has exposed the low prioritisation of climate change and health in countries' political agendas and how the failure of high-income countries to deliver a robust response and international climate finance has so far undermined timely action.

Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz, Marie-Claire Wangari, Joy K Mugambi (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] No climate change justice in lieu of global authorship equity. thelancet.com The 2022 Countdown on health and climate change1 highlighted the impacts of climate change due to human-made disasters on the overall physical and socioeconomic fabric of human life. This Countdown aims to highlight the global experiences but fails to translate the global point of view in terms of the report's authorship.

Nathan Taylor (2023-04-01). Mayor of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Fires Up Environmentalist Wrath. indybay.org While the mountains in general, and Mont Blanc in particular, are now being forced to rethink their future and their economic activities in a context of accelerated climate change, some municipalities seem to be taking these considerations rather lightly.

Petteri Muukkonen (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Geography education to help understand discrimination in climate change and health. thelancet.com Thilagawathi A Deivanayagam and colleagues1 have highlighted that the effects of climate change are not equally distributed around the world, creating discrimination related to climate change and health. The authors mentioned briefly that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises education as one way to address this issue.2 However, the problem is so large and multidimensional that it should be answered with cross-disciplinary solutions. The effects of climate change vary across countries and regions due to differences in geography, history, and economic development.

Lee Camp (2023-03-31). How The Rich Are Prepping For End Times, And Why. mintpressnews.com The ruling class knows what's coming: social instability caused by a combination of the climate crisis, banks failing, the soul-killing inequality of late-stage capitalism, and the impending dilution of the petrodollar.

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-03-31). US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling. nationofchange.org Coming on the heels of the Willow decision, this certainly feels like another step backwards in the fight against climate change, which this administration has said is an existential threat."

Minnesota Reformer (2023-03-31). Solar and Wind to Supply 16% of US Electricity this Year, But some States are in the Vanguard. juancole.com By: By Robert Zullo — Despite supply-chain problems amid the lingering effects of the pandemic, 2022 saw major increases in solar and wind power in the United States, though that growth varied by state, according to a report released last month by a nonprofit focused on climate change. Nationally, electricity generated from solar and …

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. (2023-04-01). China's Historical Destiny Is To Stand With The Third World. popularresistance.org On 20 March 2023, China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According to official statements after the meeting, the two leaders talked about the increasing economic and strategic partnership between China and Russia — including building the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline — and the Chinese peace initiative for the war in Ukraine. Putin said that 'many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when the West and Kiev are ready fo…

Lyric Aquino (2023-03-31). Canadian Police Arrest Indigenous Protesters in Clash Over Pipeline Construction. truthout.org Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Wednesday arrested five land defenders on Wet'suwet'en territory near the controversial construction of a natural gas pipeline that runs through central British Columbia. The 416 mile-long Coastal GasLink pipeline is expected to bring 2.1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas to a facility in Kitimat, B.C. before it is exported to global markets. |

Staff (2023-04-01). Thomas Màºller lidera la victoria del Bayern sobre el Dortmund en el clásico alemán. cubadebate.cu Con un doblete de Thomas Màºller, el Bayern Munich superó el sábado por 4-2 al Borussia Dortmund en el clásico alemán para retomar la cima de la Bundesliga sobre los visitantes y con lo que el técnico Thomas Tuchel debutó con triunfo con el Bayern.

Derrick Broze (2023-03-31). Mexico Battles U.S. Government and 'Mr. Monsanto' to Protect Food Sovereignty. thelastamericanvagabond.com Despite legal threats from the U.S. government, Mexico's government plans to go forward with a partial ban on imports of genetically modified corn. On Wednesday Mexico's National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) hosted an online webinar laying out the science behind the nation's decision to ban imports of Genetically Modified corn. The webinar itself

EARTHDAY‚Äç (2023-03-31). Thursday 3/30: #End Plastic Pollution: Creating a Waste Free World. indybay.org Online via livestream…

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