(2024-09-24). Big Ag's Road To Brazil. popularresistance.org This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. | Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have. But as global heating continues apace, emissions associated with food are rising fast. | Nitrous oxide — a planet-heating gas nearly 300 times as potent as CO2 when measured over 100 years — is accumulating in Earth's atmosphere at unprecedented levels. Levels of methane [md…
(2024-09-24). Democracy Now! 2024-09-24 Tuesday. democracynow.org Headlines for September 24, 2024; "Absolutely Terrifying": Israel's War Comes to Lebanon, Setting Record-Breaking Single-Day Death Toll; Climate Activists Shut Down Citibank HQ in NYC, Demand Halt to Fossil Fuel Investments; NYC Climate Week: Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo on the Need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty; Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of Supreme Court; Victim's Family, Prosecutor Don't Want Him to Die | Headlines for September 24, 2024; "Absolutely Terrifying": Israel's War Comes to Lebanon, Setting Record-Breaking Single-Day Death Toll; C…