Through the Climate Looking Glass into Grizzly Wonderland
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
Strangely enough, grizzly bear researchers and managers seem to have integrated a faith-based version of climate-change-denial into their collective world view. In fact, these ostensibly well-educated men and women bring to mind well-schooled ecclesiastics professing a belief system:…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/through-the-climate-looking-glass-into-grizzly-wonderland/

Australian cancer victim sues Bayer-Monsanto
wsws.org | 2019-07-23
Michael Ogalirolo claims his potentially lethal cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is due to 18 years of exposure to glyphosate, the active component of the herbicide Roundup.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/23/mons-j23.html

Peace Strike for Climate & Amazon Rainforest in State Capital
Fridays For Future Sacramento | indybay.org | 2019-07-23
California State Capitol Museum, West Steps | 1315 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/19/18824857.php

The Green New Deal is Built on Decades of Climate Justice Organizing
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-23
At Netroots Nation 2019, Climate Justice Alliance's Anthony Rogers-Wright talks about how movements–and candidates–can fight for frontline communities by scaling up and out solutions that are already working…
therealnews.com/stories/the-green-new-deal-is-built-on-decades-of-climate-justice-organizing

Greta Thunberg Holds Up D-Day Veteran's Call to Avert Collapse of Civilization
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-22
As she is given the Freedom Prize by France's Normandy, the activist says to honor D-Day veterans we should "stop destroying" the world they "fought so hard to save."
truthdig.com/articles/greta-thunberg-holds-up-d-day-veterans-call-to-avert-collapse-of-civilization/

Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War
Robert Koehler | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-22
"The easy movement of high ranking military officers into jobs with major defense contractors and the reverse movement of top executives in major defense contractors into high Pentagon jobs is solid evidence of the military industrial-complex in operation." I was utterly stunned when I read these words of former Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, quoted in…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/22/fighting-climate-change-means-ending-war/

UN Youth envoy launches coding competition to help solve climate crisis and 'Reboot the Earth'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-22
Can young coders help solve the climate crisis? The UN's Youth Envoy launched a global competition earlier this month, "Reboot The Earth", in collaboration with the Office of Information & Communications Technology, to try and answer that question, fostering collaboration between the United Nations, academia, civil society, and young people to address the climate emergency.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1043051

In the Wake of Fukushima. Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate Change: Is Japan's Seawall a New Maginot Line?
Peter Matanle | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-07-22
asia-pacificresearch.com/in-the-wake-of-fukushima-imagining-disasters-in-the-era-of-climate-change-is-japans-seawall-a-new-maginot-line/5628739

President Duterte's Call to Revive Death Penalty in the Philippines Will Only Worsen Climate of Impunity
commondreams.org | 2019-07-22
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/07/22/president-dutertes-call-revive-death-penalty-philippines-will-only-worsen?cd-origin=rss

Fukushima: an ongoing disaster
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-20
n March–on the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster–Time magazine published an article with the headline: "Want to Stop Climate Change? Then It's Time to Fall Back in Love with Nuclear Energy". | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/20/fukushima-an-ongoing-disaster/

How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
Sharon Lerner | theintercept.com | 2019-07-20
The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and outfitted with triangular white teeth and a "feed me" sign won the students from the Nashville suburb first place in a recycling box decorating contest. The idea, as Westmeade's proud principal told a local TV news show, was to help the environment. But the real story behind the dragon — as with much of the escalating war over plastic waste — is more complic…
theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plastic-recycling/

That funny smell: 4.5mn-gallon sewage spill shuts Washington beaches
rt.com | 2019-07-20
Power glitches at the two biggest sewage treatment plants in Washington state's King County have resulted in the uncontrollable discharge of millions of gallons of wastewater into the ocean, causing several beaches to close. | …
rt.com/usa/464610-sewage-spill-beaches-closed/

Some Candidates Have Climate Plans, But Are They Climate Justice Plans?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-20
At Netroots Nation 2019, 350.org's Thanu Yakupitiyage says she's looking for every presidential candidate to release tangible climate plans, bring frontline communities into the room, and take on the fossil fuel industry and its money…
therealnews.com/stories/some-candidates-have-climate-plans-but-are-they-climate-justice-plans

As Trump Tears Up Our Treaties, Can Local Efforts Yield Diplomatic Fruit?
James Carden | thenation.com | 2019-07-19
As Trump Tears Up Our Treaties, Can Local Efforts Yield Diplomatic Fruit?
thenation.com/article/trump-iran-climate-change-treaties/

On Climate, 'Looking at the Structural Barriers to Progress Is Important' – CounterSpin interview with Zoà´ Carpenter on GOP's Oregon power grab
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-07-19
Janine Jackson interviewed Zoà´ Carpenter about the GOP's Oregon power grab for the July 12, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/on-climate-looking-at-the-structural-barriers-to-progress-is-important/

Tasmanian councils declare climate emergency
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
Kingborough Council voted to declare a statewide Climate Biodiversity Emergency on July 8, just three weeks after adjoining Hobart City Council became the first Australian capital city to do the same. | The motion, moved by councillor Amanda Midgley, also commits council to write to Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman and Prime Minister Scott Morrison to urge them to declare a climate emergency at the state and federal levels. | The public gallery at the Kingborough council meeting was packed and included members of the Red Brigade, an affiliate group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Tasmania, who stood silently dressed i…
greenleft.org.au/content/tasmanian-councils-declare-climate-emergency

Extinction Rebellion disrupts Brisbane
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-18
Extinction Rebellion activists disrupted numerous intersections in Brisbane's CBD on July 11. | climate justice Jacob AndrewarthaIssue 1229 Australia Extinction Rebellion BrisbanePhoto: J…
greenleft.org.au/content/extinction-rebellion-disrupts-brisbane

Challenging capitalism is the ultimate climate mitigation strategy
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-18
The climate movement both at the international level and within specific countries is quite disparate, meriting a distinction between climate activists per se and climate justice activists. | Representatives of the former include organisations such as the Climate Action Network, Greenpeace, and Al Gore's Climate Reality Project, which emphasise the need for renewables, energy efficiency, and other techno-fixes and attempt to work within the parameters of global capitalism. | Others, such as Friends of the Earth, Climate Justice Action, and various socialist and anarchist groups, are attuned to the enormous social…
greenleft.org.au/content/challenging-capitalism-ultimate-climate-mitigation-strategy

Australia needs a 'Green Fair Go'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-18
RMIT University professor Rob Watts believes Australia needs a "Green Fair Go" — akin to the United States proposal of a "Green New Deal" — that would include a commitment to full employment through jobs linked to combating climate change. To make this a reality would require "people power", he said. | Watts was speaking at a Fair Go For Pensioners conference on July 10, where he provided an overview of the neoliberal policies pursued by Labor and Coalition governments during the past four decades. | He spoke of the decline of the union movement, growing inequality, the abandonment of the goal of full…
greenleft.org.au/content/australia-needs-green-fair-go

Why A 20-Year Old Climate Activist is Suing the Federal Government
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-17
At Netroots Nation 2019, Vic Barrett, a young defendant in Juliana vs US, talks to Dharna Noor about why he's suing the federal government for its role in the climate crisis…
therealnews.com/stories/why-a-20-year-old-climate-activist-is-suing-the-federal-government

"Fossil Fuel Stooges" Pence & Trump Deny Climate Crisis as Deadly Rains Slam Louisiana & South Asia
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-15
Ongoing heavy rain has killed at least 67 people in Nepal, 25 in India and 14 in Bangladesh as flooding from monsoons has displaced 1 million people in South Asia. This year's flooding in the region has been worse than ever before and is likely fueled by rising global temperatures, which have led to more extreme weather. Scientists warn that the risk of deadly floods is not over. In the United States, New Orleans residents managed to avoid the worst of Tropical Storm Barry, but 11 million people continued to be on flash flood warning as the storm slowly made its way through Louisiana over the weekend. President T…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/15/nepal_india_bangladesh_flooding_climate_crisis