Daily Archives: February 11, 2024

2024-02-11: News Headlines

Anita Hofschneider, Scheer Post. (2024-02-10). Campus Divestment Activists Eye Fossil Fuel Profits On Stolen Land. popularresistance.org Samantha Gonsalves-Wetherell, a senior at the University of Arizona, has spent years urging university officials to take climate change seriously. As a leader of UArizona Divest, she and her classmates have been pushing the university toward three goals: to divest from fossil fuels by 2029; commit to no further investments in fossil fuels; and to implement socially responsible investing goals. | "It's hard to both combat the climate crisis and also fund it," said Gonsalves-Wetherell. She has met with university officials to ask them what stocks the university has invested in and how much revenue oil and gas inves…

Editor (2024-02-10). Banks continue to prop up the fossil fuel industry. mronline.org The hypocrisy of the world's biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting.

Editor (2024-02-10). Campus Divestment Activists Eye Fossil Fuel Profits on Stolen Land. scheerpost.com

Richard Horton (2024-02-10). Comment] Offline: Is there still time? thelancet.com "Earth boiled in 2023—will it happen again in 2024?", ran a recent headline in Nature. The question was understandable. 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. The tone of the article was doom-laden—"climate researchers look ahead with trepidation". Is drenching readers with forecasts of apocalypse the best way to encourage action? Hannah Ritchie does not think so. In Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (2024), which runs against the modern tide of catastrophist thinking, Ritchie argues that creating an ambience of anxiety, dread, and pessimism i…

ecns.cn (2024-02-11). Fukushima radioactive water leakage accident once again demonstrates TEPCO management disorder: Chinese FM. ecns.cn The accident in Fukushima once again demonstrates the deep-rooted problems of disorder and chaos in the internal management of Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

Sophie Chew (2024-02-10). China Lashes Out at 'Chaos and Disorder' Behind Fukushima Radioactive Waste Water Leak. globalresearch.ca

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