#ClimateStrike: Virtual Protest Against Chase Bank to #Stop The Money Pipeline
350.org Bay Area & many others | indybay.org | 2020-04-18
Online protest actions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/16/18832428.php

Freedom of Assembly is Sick
Maximilian Pichl and Doug Henwood | indybay.org | 2020-04-18
For decades, this country was governed as if the climate crisis were a myth. However, it favors natural disasters and diseases that are difficult or impossible to treat. The denial of these problems and the refusal to deal with the destructive effects of capitalism are the reason why the USA is particularly ill-equipped to face future challenges.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/16/18832427.php

Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it's easy to see how epidemiology came next.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic

The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries

COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-the-delicate-economic-balance-we-all-live-in-under-capitalism/

Ukrainian capital Kiev engulfed in smog from wildfires near Chernobyl
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
The fires expose the fact that the world's worst nuclear catastrophe remains unresolved and continues to threaten the health of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/ukra-a18.html

A Big Oil Bailout Would Be the Opposite of the Green New Deal We Need
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-17
It's been a wild couple of weeks in the oil markets. Following a price war between major petrostates, the price of oil has tanked. Ever since, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been desperately trying to save a deeply indebted oil industry. We can all but expect a Trump-led bailout for Big Oil. Instead, our law and policy makers should let the oil producers fail, and devote resources to stave off the next crisis

Emerging Climate-Fueled Megadrought in Western US Rivals Any Over Past 1,200 Years: Study
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-17
"We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we're on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-860067511.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/17/emerging-climate-fueled-megadrought-western-us-rivals-any-over-past-1200-years-study?cd-origin=rss

Up against COVID-19, environmental activism goes digital for 50th annual Earth Day
Len Yannielli | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-17
Many people have fought for a union, good wages, and strong benefits, especially health insurance. People have successfully defended a stream here or land there. While very important, none of those gains will stop climate change, pollution, wars, and pandemics. The interrelationships between these maladies have bubbled to the surface in these COVID-19 times. That …
peoplesworld.org/article/up-against-covid-19-environmental-activism-goes-digital-for-50th-annual-earth-day/

Stir Crazy! Episode #16: The Ineptitude of Power
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-17
Episode #16 of Stir Crazy, on The Real News Network. Political consultant Marcus Ferrell talks with TRNN Climate Reporter Steve Horn and Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray about how Big Pharma and others are taking advantage of COVID-19. Hosted by TRNN reporter Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-16-the-ineptitude-of-power

5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn
Lorraine Chow | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
This article was originally published in 2016. | Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto's attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country's food and farming systems. | One-hundred organizations representing more than …
globalresearch.ca/5-million-nigerians-oppose-monsantos-plans-introduce-gmo-cotton-corn/5709977

As Food Banks Face Shortages and Fresh Produce Rots, Pandemic Spurs Calls for Sustainable Supply Chain
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-17
U.S. food pantries have faced unprecedented demand while billions of dollars in produce has gone to waste due to supply chain disruptions from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—conditions that are renewing calls for reforms to make the nation's food systems more localized, resilient, and sustainable. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12188626381.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/17/food-banks-face-shortages-and-fresh-produce-rots-pandemic-spurs-calls-sustainable?cd-origin=rss

Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-14
An immunocompromised Wisconsin man in his 70s died from an infection with a strain of Legionella bacteria traced to water supplies in his home, according to a CDC report.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764467

Noam Chomsky On COVID-19 And His New Book: Internationalism Or Extinction
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-13
Noam Chomsky analyzes the coronavirus pandemic in the context of neoliberal capitalism's failures, climate change, potential nuclear disaster, and Donald Trump's authoritarianism.
therealnews.com/stories/noam-chomsky-book-covid-19-coronavirus-internationalism-extinction-donald-trump-authoritarianism-neoliberalism-capitalism

Climate Crisis: Bye Bye Bernie, Big Oil Secrecy, California Fracking and Wildfires
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-11
California issued 24 new fracking permits as a new study says the state's wildfire season is now twice as long. And the youth climate movement issued demands for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-bye-bye-bernie-big-oil-secrecy-california-fracking-and-wildfires

Trump policies kill birds: Why it matters
Tina Landis | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-11
How can we stop bird decline and climate change?
liberationnews.org/trump-policies-kill-birds-why-it-matters/

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/

Technological Solution to Food Crisis?
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
Entrepreneurs and investors are looking for ways to grow enough food in a world of climate change and diminishing resources. | Some propose making "food out of air," according to "Food without Fields?" The article, published in the autumn 2019 issue of Earth Island Journal, presumes the best way to protect ecosystems is to take farming out of them

Unions Disregard Call for Large Scale Climate Action Strikes
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
Students are leading the way with Global Climate Strikes across the country to persuade the government and leaders of the country to take impactful action to remedy the current climate…
projectcensored.org/unions-disregard-call-for-large-scale-climate-action-strikes/