2023-05-05: News Headlines

Jacqui Thornton (2023-05-06). World Report] Malnutrition in Kiribati. thelancet.com Beset by the effects of climate change, the island nation of Kiribati now faces increasing child malnutrition and a shortage of specialists to treat them. Jacqui Thornton reports.

DFAD & Global Center for Climate Justice (2023-05-05). Tuesday 5/9: Realizing American Democracy: Climate Justice & Voting Rights. indybay.org Online teach-in…

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). (W.E. Talk) Why do we still commemorate Karl Marx in 21st century?>. ecns.cn Why do we still commemorate Marx in 21st century? How do we understand the "Chinese characteristics" in Chinese Marxist thoughts? Why do some people say that China has a brighter prospect than the West in dealing with climate change, income inequality, and other problems that face the world as a whole?

Jacqui Thornton (2023-05-06). World Report] Malnutrition in Kiribati. thelancet.com Beset by the effects of climate change, the island nation of Kiribati now faces increasing child malnutrition and a shortage of specialists to treat them. Jacqui Thornton reports.

DFAD & Global Center for Climate Justice (2023-05-05). Tuesday 5/9: Realizing American Democracy: Climate Justice & Voting Rights. indybay.org Online teach-in…

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). (W.E. Talk) Why do we still commemorate Karl Marx in 21st century?>. ecns.cn Why do we still commemorate Marx in 21st century? How do we understand the "Chinese characteristics" in Chinese Marxist thoughts? Why do some people say that China has a brighter prospect than the West in dealing with climate change, income inequality, and other problems that face the world as a whole?

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). Degrowth: An environmental ideology with good intentions, bad politics. By: Collin Chambers and Liberation School. midwesternmarx.com IntroductionThe planet is experiencing multiple environmental crises: biodiversity loss, deforestation, increased rates of pandemics, chemical pollution, soil depletion, water contamination and shortages, runaway non-renewable energy consumption, and climate change. "Degrowth" is an environmental ideology that arose as a political response to these compounding crises. Degrowth was originally termed by André Gorz in 1972. Gorz argued that global environmental balance, wh …

Akielly Hu (2023-05-04). 4 Years of Organizing Paid Off: New York Says Yes to Publicly Owned Renewables. truthout.org On Tuesday, New York lawmakers passed a law that, for the first time, authorizes the New York Power Authority — the largest state public power authority in the U.S. — to build renewable energy projects to help reach the state's climate goals. The new Build Public Renewables Act, passed as part of New York's annual budget, is a culmination of four years of organizing by climate and community… |

Ashley Curtin (2023-05-04). Two new rules shift trucks sales and all locomotives operating in California to zero emissions. nationofchange.org "We applaud this ambitious move by the California Air Resources Board to mandate electrification of locomotives and trucks, setting a new bar in the state's efforts to combat climate change and save lives."

Alasdair Baverstock (2023-05-04). Impact of climate change on Navajo Nation. america.cgtn.com Climate change is hitting communities hard around the world, not least in America's largest indigenous reservation, where the Navajo people have lived since long before the founding of the modern United States But as more extreme weather threatens their culture, many see life there becoming …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-04). Truths that should terrify the Life out of you. expose-news.com Where do most of your medicines come from? Has corporate media in the US become part of the federal government? Has Google become our enemy? Are climate fanatics in the UK trying …

teleSUR (2023-05-04). Developed Nations Should Deliver Climate Justice: Guterres. telesurenglish.net Developed countries, which are major contributors to the emission of planet-warming gases like methane and carbon dioxide, should honor their financial commitment to helping Africa adapt to the unfolding climate crisis, United Nations Secretary Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Guterres, who is on an official visit to Kenya, said at a media briefing in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi that the industrial north has a moral obligation…

Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance. (2023-05-04). May 18: Stop Manchin's FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). popularresistance.org Since March of last year, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has been working with Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee which he chairs to prevent any substantive change at FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They must stop their rubber stamping of methane gas pipelines and LNG projects! | Here's what Manchin has been and is doing, right now: | -March 2022: He forced FERC commissioners to retract a new policy announced in February 2022 to require methane gas permit applications to include substantive environmental justice and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions analysis, and impr…

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