2020-04-20: News Headlines

Jane Fleming Kleeb (2020-04-20). Organizing on the Coasts Won't Save the Planet. thenation.com Organizing on the Coasts Won't Save the Planet…

Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope (2020-04-20). Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis. thenation.com Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis…

Seattle Arts & Lectures (2020-04-20). Earth Day: Climate Conversation w/ Elizabeth Colbert, Pulitzer Prize Author & Journalist. indybay.org Online…

Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope (2020-04-20). The Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis. thenation.com The Coronavirus Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis…

Pacific Environment & Climate Works Found. (2020-04-20). Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar). indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Colin Todhunter (2020-04-20). Orwellian Lockstep and a Loaded Syringe. globalresearch.ca Some years ago, the then vice-president of Monsanto Robert T Fraley asked, "Why do people doubt science". He posed the question partly because he had difficulty in believing that some people had valid concerns about the use of genetically modified …

One Earth Film Festival (2020-04-20). Earth Week Film: 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste' Virtual Screening + Discussion (free). indybay.org Online streaming…

The Canary (2020-04-19). David Attenborough issues a vital plea to 'cherish' our 'precious world'. thecanary.co David Attenborough has urged people to "stop waste of any kind", saying the world is precious and should be "celebrated and cherished".The broadcaster and naturalist warned humans have a "last chance" to change their behaviour and save the planet, as he urged politicians to address "the biggest problem humanity has ever faced".In an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Attenborough said it will be the younger generation who will have to make changes because "they will be able to see the consequences of what they do". | He added: "My lot are dying off and we are the ones that caused the problem."He suggested p…

Carlos Davidson (2020-04-19). Finding Hope in Dark Times While Avoiding Environmentalists' Mistakes of the Past. commondreams.org At first it was an email pointing out that the pandemic would mean that global carbon emissions would be down… But then it got worse with people I respect circulating writings that embraced the pandemic as ultimately good for the environment by warning humanity to respect Mother Earth." (Image: NASA) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_planet_0.jpg

Staff (2020-04-19). Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases. truthout.org As the "Climate…

Amy Merrill (2020-04-19). Lessons From COVID-19 to Address the Climate Crisis. commondreams.org Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles, California on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-06-12_at_10.47.01_am_0.png

Eds. (2020-04-18). The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries. mronline.org Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.

Staff (2020-04-18). COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism. truthout.org 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 <...

Kuehn BM. (2020-04-14). Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination. jamanetwork.com 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.

H. Patricia Hynes (2020-04-04). Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis. zcomm.org What we—citizens, corporations, courts and government—do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…

Jeremy Brecher (2020-04-04). First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike? zcomm.org 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…

CounterSpin (2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.

Jon Rainwater (2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …

Suzanne O'Keeffe (2019-07-24). MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with XR. peoplesparty.org with Extinction Rebellion climate activists | MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with Extinction Rebellion climate activists after supergluing themselves to Congress in mass civil disobedience: | Washington, D.C. — Movement for a People's Party National Director Nick Brana was arrested during a protest to block Congress and demand that they join the countries of the UK and Canada and declare a climate emergency. | Brana and 15 people affiliated with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) glued themselves to three underground tunnel entrances leading to the Capitol, blocking access…