Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar)
Pacific Environment & Climate Works Found. | indybay.org | 2020-04-23
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/19/18832492.php

The car industry and the climate crisis
Stephan Kroll and Christian Hofmann | indybay.org | 2020-04-23
The car companies should now be converted into providers of mobility needs based on socio-ecological sustainability. Reduction of working hours – short full time of an average of 30 hours/4 days per week for all – is part of the neceesary radical change to save human lives amid plutocratic neoliberalism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/22/18832551.php

Pandemics, Climate Crisis and the Turbulent Future
Ted Glick | zcomm.org | 2020-04-23
We must learn from the history of past efforts at systemic change which have floundered because they were male-dominated, monochromatic instead of consciously multi-racial, led too often by white men who too often got wrapped up in ego and power…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/pandemics-climate-crisis-and-the-turbulent-future/

As Oil Prices Plunge, Fracking and Oil Drilling Expands Under Gov. Newsom
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-04-23
"It just doesn't make any sense to approve fracking permits in the state of California now," said Liza Tucker, consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog. "It's clear that it's time to sunset fossil fuels and effect a just transition to a new energy economy. We should end fracking right now and phase out oil and gas production in the state in a rational, managed way. We should not be issuing new permits for oil and gas drilling."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/20/18832539.php

Greta Thunberg: Climate Activists Have Not Lost Hope Amid Pandemic. We're Changing How We Organize
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke in an Earth Day live stream hosted by the Nobel Prize Museum about how the Fridays for Future school strikes movement she launched is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. "Within the Fridays for Future movement, there's still this sort of big sense of resistance, and people are thinking, 'We will get out of this. And when we do, we will continue, and we will do everything we can that is possible in that situation to continue to push even harder,'" says Thunberg. "I feel like many people have not lost their sense of hope. We have just changed the way we do things. W…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/greta_thunberg_earth_day_2020

Greta Thunberg: Climate Activists Are Changing How They Organize Amid a Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-22
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke in an Earth Day live stream hosted by the Nobel Prize Museum about how the Fridays for Future school strikes movement she launched is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. "Within the Fridays for Future movement, there's still this sort of big sense of resistance, and people are thinking, 'We will get out of this. And when we do, we will continue, and we will do everything we can that is possible in that situation to continue to push even harder…
truthout.org/video/greta-thunberg-climate-activists-are-changing-how-they-organize-amid-a-pandemic/

Big Insurance Is Propping Up Big Oil. Activists Say It's Time to Pull the Plug
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-22
This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. | In the western world, paying for insurance each month is as ubiquitous a routine as paying for the internet. Once insurance companies collect monthly premium payments, the industry turns around and invests the pool of money in profitable ventures

Chileans Who Took to Streets Against Inequality & Climate Crisis Say Virus Lockdowns Won't Stop Them
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Months ago, the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities were alive with a vibrant mass protest movement that drew hundreds of thousands and even led the U.N. climate summit to be relocated to Madrid, Spain, last December. Now the public spaces of Santiago are largely empty as citizens shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But the protest movement against austerity and right-wing President Sebastián Piñera lives on as activists find new ways to organize online. We go to Santiago, Chile, to speak with Angela Valenzuela, a 350.org organizer who has been active both in the country's uprising and in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/angela_valenzuela_chile

Stopping Trump's Demonic Reversals of the Long-term Benefits of the First Earth Day April 22, 1970
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-04-22
Dumb, disgraceful Donald still sneers at the oncoming climate catastrophe, calling it a hoax. (Photo: Oil Change International/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_climate_hotel_0_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/04/22/stopping-trumps-demonic-reversals-long-term-benefits-first-earth-day-april-22-1970?cd-origin=rss

Zooming Newport's Climate Awareness Earth Day 2020
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-22
Fifty years ago, the first Earth Day brought out 20 million Americans across the land

Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won't halt climate change – UN weather agency chief
news.un.org | 2020-04-22
An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is only "short-term good news", the head of the UN weather agency said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062332

Environmental and Labor Groups Team Up to Demand COVID-19 Relief
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-22
This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. | As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate the U.S. economy, national environmental organizations are stepping up to support labor unions and frontline workers across the country in their push for personal protective equipment, sick and hazard pay, safe working conditions, and other forms of relief as the crisis intensifies. | The Labor Network for Sustainability…
truthout.org/articles/environmental-and-labor-groups-team-up-to-demand-covid-19-relief/

Abolish Earth Day
Markie Miller, Crystal Jankowski | commondreams.org | 2020-04-22
Earth Day's laws have systematically failed to guard against mass species die-offs, the climate crisis, deadly air pollution, the corporatization of freshwater, and the largest loss of biodiversity in human history. (Photo: Bird's eye view of wide-spread contamination in Lake Erie) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/lake-erie-algal-bloom-aerial-associates-photography-450×300.jpg …
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Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief?
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-04-22
Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief?
thenation.com/article/environment/psychedelics-climate-grief/

COVID-19 'liberate' groups are the same ones pushing climate denial
Steve Horn | nationofchange.org | 2020-04-22
The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID-19.
nationofchange.org/2020/04/22/covid-19-liberate-groups-are-the-same-ones-pushing-climate-denial/

Environmentalists Praise Democratic Request for Greater Oversight, Incorporation of Climate Risk in Fed Lending Programs
commondreams.org | 2020-04-22
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/04/22/environmentalists-praise-democratic-request-greater-oversight-incorporation?cd-origin=rss

Scientists, climate experts endorse Joe Biden as 2020 presidential candidate
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-04-22
"On Earth Day, we speak with one voice: we must elect Joe Biden the next president of the United States–for all our sakes."
nationofchange.org/2020/04/22/scientists-climate-experts-endorse-joe-biden-as-2020-presidential-candidate/

Guterres vows support for island States in twin fight against COVID-19, climate crisis
news.un.org | 2020-04-21
In an era of new challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres is pledging the UN's continued support to small island States

Orwellian Lockstep and a Loaded Syringe
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-19
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 organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. Critics were questioning the science behind GM technology and the impacts …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/orwellian-lockstep-and-a-loaded-syringe/

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/

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/

'Imminent' 9.0 Earthquake, 30M Tsunami Could Wreck Fukushima, Gov't Panel Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-23
A specially set up working group has been projecting the possible repercussions of new probable natural disasters off Japan's coastline and drawing up measures to prevent them.
sputniknews.com/asia/202004231079066648-imminent-90-earthquake-30m-tsunami-could-wreck-fukushima-govt-panel-says/

Coronavirus Crisis Makes Clear Pentagon Should Get No More Money This Year for Its 'Wasteful War Machine': 60+ Groups
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-22
"We cannot continue spending billions of dollars on weapons of war while people across the country struggle to buy food, pay rent, and survive a pandemic." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bombs_0_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/22/coronavirus-crisis-makes-clear-pentagon-should-get-no-more-money-year-its-wasteful?cd-origin=rss