62 arrested after Extinction Rebellion protest brings Times Square to a standstill
rt.com | 2019-10-10
Dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters were arrested after supergluing themselves to a bright green boat they towed into a busy Times Square intersection in New York City, blocking traffic. | Some 62 protesters were taken into custody after parking a lime green sailboat in the middle of Times Square, one of the city's busiest intersections, snarling up traffic for two hours on Thursday morning. | The stunt, engineered by the controversial environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR), was designed to force action on climate change — the boat, and many of the protesters' signs, demanded the gov…
rt.com/usa/470651-protesters-arrested-extinction-rebellion-nyc/
Extinction Rebellion Protesters Try to Occupy London Airport
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-10
Climate-change protesters descended on London City Airport Thursday, gluing themselves to the terminal building and dancing on a roof but ultimately failing to cancel flights. | RELATED: | Mass Arrests of Climate Change Protestors In World Capitals | Protest organizers Extinction Rebellion had vowed to occupy the airport's terminal and shut down ope…
telesurenglish.net/news/Extinction-Rebellion-Protesters-Try-to-Occupy-London-Airport–20191010-0003.html
After a 'heartbreaking arrest' at the climate protests, a lawyer asks 'is this what it's come to'
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-10-10
People around the world are taking part in protests to hold governments to account over the current climate breakdown. According to the BBC, police have arrested at least 600 people at climate protests in the UK since 7 October.But the video of one man's arrest raises important…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/10/10/after-a-heartbreaking-arrest-at-the-climate-protests-a-lawyer-asks-is-this-what-its-come-to/
Demand More from Transportation Bill
Steven Higashide | progressive.org | 2019-10-10
The new bill "acknowledges" climate change in the same way that sending a pallet of bottled water to Flint, Michigan "acknowledges" the lead crisis.
progressive.org/op-eds/demand-more-from-transportation-bill-higashide-191010/
20 fossil fuel companies are responsible for a third of carbon emissions
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-10
"The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price — in the form of a degraded planet — so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits."
nationofchange.org/2019/10/10/20-fossil-fuel-companies-are-responsible-for-a-third-of-carbon-emissions/
'A New Normal That Is Not Normal': 2.5 Million to Lose Power Across Northern California to Prevent Wildfires
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-10
An estimated 500,000 people across Northern California are two days into a planned power outage which the state's largest utility, PG&E, began in an attempt to prevent wildfires like those which have spiraled out of control in recent years amid unusually dry weather—an occurrence which climate action advocates warned are already the region's "new normal." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11749149401.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/10/10/new-normal-not-normal-25-million-lose-power-across-northern-california-prevent?cd-origin=rss
Fossil Fuel Firms Spend Millions on Social Media Ads Against Climate Regulations While Portraying Selves as Green Heroes
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-10
"This is the playbook: deny, delay, confuse, blame 'consumers', spread economic fear, #greenwash, repeat." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/california_fossil_fuels_0.png …
commondreams.org/news/2019/10/10/fossil-fuel-firms-spend-millions-social-media-ads-against-climate-regulations-while?cd-origin=rss
New Study Warns 5 Billion People Could Face Higher Risk of Climate-Related Coastal Storms, Water Pollution, and Crop Losses by 2050
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-10
By 2050, five billion people across the globe—disproportionately those in poorer communities—could face a higher risk of enduring coastal storms, water pollution, and crop losses linked to the human-caused climate crisis, warns a study published in the journal Science and reported on Thursday by The Scotsman. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pr_0_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/10/10/new-study-warns-5-billion-people-could-face-higher-risk-climate-related-coastal?cd-origin=rss
Extinction Rebellion: Hundreds Arrested in Protest of Climate Crisis
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-09
Thousands are taking part in two weeks of civil disobedience aimed at forcing governments to address climate change…
therealnews.com/stories/extinction-rebellion-arrested-climate-crisis
Huelgas climáticas mundiales: la crisis de la Tierra despierta millones
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2019-10-09
En Montreal, provincia de Quebec, Canadá, más de 500.000 personas marcharon el 27 de septiembre en un esfuerzo por detener la crisis climática, en la huelga más grande en la historia de la ciudad, según los organizadores. Este y otros eventos de Global Climate Strike terminaron una semana después, cuando . . . | Continue reading Huelgas climáticas mundiales: la crisis de la Tierra despierta millones at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/10/43943/
We Need Biodiversity-based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
Dr. Vandana Shiva | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-09
The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity — an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems — that can meet all our needs and sustain life. | Through biodiversity …
globalresearch.ca/biodiversity-based-agriculture-solve-climate-crisis/5691492
Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested in central London
wsws.org | 2019-10-09
Over 500 peaceful climate protestors have been arrested in central London in just two days as part of an escalating response from the British state aimed at outlawing mass environmental protest as a form of terrorism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/09/exti-o09.html
Youth Indigenous Activist Speaks on Deforestation in Indonesia
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-08
14-year-old Kynan Degar explains how the palm oil industry harms indigenous Indonesian communities through deforestation–an interview at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.
therealnews.com/stories/youth-indigenous-activist-speaks-deforestation-indonesia
This Is Not a Drill: 700+ Arrested as Extinction Rebellion Fights Climate Crisis with Direct Action
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-08
More than 700 people have been arrested in civil disobedience actions as the group Extinction Rebellion kicked off two weeks of protests in 60 cities worldwide, demanding urgent government action on the climate crisis. Its members have superglued themselves to government buildings, occupied public landmarks, shut down roads and taken to the streets to sound the alarm about the impending catastrophe of global warming. Extinction Rebellion, a nonpolitical movement, launched last year in the U.K. and rose to prominence in April, when it disrupted traffic in Central London for 11 days. For more about the significance…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/8/extinction_rebellion_global_actions_climate_crisis
Turning waste into wealth: World Habitat Day focus on cleaning up cities
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-07
Waste can have a devastating effect on public health, the environment, and the climate, but cutting-edge innovation and technology can provide improved, cheaper solutions to the challenge, and help cities and communities to see waste as a business opportunity. This was the message marking World Habitat Day, on Monday, with a focus on waste management.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1048692
Monday's Daily Brief: 'Waste to wealth' campaign, nuclear power and climate change, 'dangerous nationalism' a threat, Hammarskjà∂ld latest
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-07
A recap of Monday's stories: New UN-Habitat campaign converts waste into wealth; refugee agency chief issues alert over 'dangerous nationalism', UN warns against Syrian civilian displacement; Guterres renews call for full disclosure by States over 1961 Hammarskjà∂ld plane crash; First-ever conference on nuclear power and climate change.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1048752
Ramp up nuclear power to beat climate change, says UN nuclear chief
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-07
Without significantly increasing the use of nuclear power worldwide, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of reducing harmful emissions and fighting climate change, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1048732
Climate and the Little Green Women and Men
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-05
The Little Green Women and Men (LGWM) are us, humanoids, especially those living in the west, believing we command Mother Earth. Well, no wonder, there is a group among us, who claims to be "God's Chosen People" — and they act it all the way. So much so, that they and their influence on LGWMs, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/climate-and-the-little-green-women-and-men/
US Supreme Court to Decide Fate Of Baltimore v. Big Oil Suit
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-04
The city sued 26 oil and gas companies over their role in the climate crisis, but the companies have appealed to the Supreme Court to stop the case from proceeding at the state level.
therealnews.com/columns/supreme-court-decide-baltimore-big-oil-lawsuit
Trump vs. California: In Blow to Climate, U.S. Revokes State's Stricter Auto Emissions Standards
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-03
California is in a legal battle with the Trump administration over tailpipe emissions, air quality and climate change. California recently joined nearly two dozen other states to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration after it revoked the state's air pollution standards for cars and light trucks, in its latest regulatory rollback of laws aimed at slowing the climate crisis. Auto emissions are California's single largest source of greenhouse gases. From Los Angeles, we're joined by Mary Nichols, the longtime chair of the California Air Resources Board. She has led the board in crafting California's intern…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/3/trump_admin_california_climate_policies
Vista high school students demand climate action
Juliana Musheyev | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-30
Students from Rancho Buena Vista High School organized a sit-in at Vista City Hall Sept. 27 to demand a stronger climate action plan.
liberationnews.org/vista-high-school-students-demand-climate-action/
Climate apartheid: Differential impacts in the age of imperialism
Russel Ruch | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-30
Climate change is producing a type of climate apartheid between rich and poor nations, and between the rich and working-class majority within all capitalist societies.
liberationnews.org/climate-apartheid-differential-impacts-in-the-age-of-imperialism/
Perth artist paints Earth's grief
barry_h | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-29
art Climate change Lynn TinleyIssue 1240 AustraliaSeptember 29, 2019Below are the opening remarks by long-established West Australian artist, Lynne Tinley at the opening night of Earth Grief, a retrospective exhibition of her art. The exhibition was displayed at the Sustainabl…
greenleft.org.au/content/perth-artist-paints-earths-grief
Liberals squirm as South Australia's parliament declares climate emergency
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-28
climate action Renfrey ClarkeIssue 1239 Australia South Australia AdelaideSeptember 28, 2019For the first time in Australia, a house of state parliament has voted to declare a climate emergency.
greenleft.org.au/content/liberals-squirm-south-australias-parliament-declares-climate-emergency
Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree visits drought stricken Murray Darling communities
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-27
climate emergency Rachel EvansIssue 1239 Australia Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Festival Bus Tour water theftSeptember 27, 2019More than 200 people are set to tour…
greenleft.org.au/content/yaama-ngunna-baaka-corroboree-visits-drought-stricken-murray-darling-communities
Capitalism and climate change
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-27
climate action Ammar Ali JanIssue 1239 Pakistan SS4C Global Climate StrikeSeptember 27, 2019The Global Climate Strike was an unprecedented event in its ambition to disrupt business as usual. | More th…
greenleft.org.au/content/capitalism-and-climate-change
StrikeDC — Friday, September 27
patrick | strikedc.org | 2019-09-24
On Monday, 2,000 of us took to the streets of Washington, DC shutting down key intersections and disrupting business as usual to demand an immediate end to the age of fossil fuels, and a swift and just transition to renewable energy. A broad coalition of climate and social justice groups fanned out across downtown D.C. … | Continue reading "StrikeDC — Friday, September 27"
strikedc.org/index.php/2019/09/24/strikedc-friday-september-27/
Join the Global Climate Strike. Oppose Israel's climate apartheid
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-09-18
Join the Global Climate Strike. Oppose Israel's climate apartheid.: Action AlertTell multinational corporations to stop investing in fossil fuels and in Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people. | Economic BoycottSeptember 19, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
bdsmovement.net/news/join-global-climate-strike-oppose-israels-climate-apartheid
We've got a Plan to #ShutDownDC For Climate Justice
patrick | strikedc.org | 2019-09-12
"This is definitely a next-level direct action. The urgency of climate change warrants such an attempt to disrupt business as usual… to make it impossible for people with decision making-power to go about their daily lives as if we are not in a climate emergency." That's what the New York Times printed about our plans to #ShutDownDC … | Continue reading "We've got a Plan to #ShutDownDC For Climate Justice"
strikedc.org/index.php/2019/09/12/weve-got-a-plan-to-shutdowndc-for-climate-justice/