Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire
Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
Despite an existential climate crisis, Senator Chuck Schumer's $250-billion "United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021" takes aim at China as the most pressing national security threat. In a Cold War declaration, the New York Democrat's proposed legislation reads like the last gasp of a dying empire, a plea from a panicked superpower losing…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/schumers-anti-china-bill-sacrifices-climate-for-empire/
Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2021-06-04
The bill undermines Kerry's negotiated agreement with China, sabotaging an opportunity for the U.S. and China to partner on curbing emissions and sharing strategies for greening the Earth…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/schumers-anti-china-bill-sacrifices-climate-for-empire/
Colonial cover ups and the invention of 'Islamo-leftism'
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2021-06-04
Those who stand against imperialism in the west are almost never popular in their home countries, but the current climate seems more dangerous than it has in decades.
nationofchange.org/2021/06/04/colonial-cover-ups-and-the-invention-of-islamo-leftism/
Sunday 6/6: Climate Action Mural Unveiling & Celebration In Clarion Alley
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
Clarion Alley, between Mission and Valencia Streets, and between 17th and 18th Streets in San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/02/18842898.php
Sunrise Movement Calls on Biden to Stop Compromising With Republicans on Climate
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-04
As President Joe Biden looks to cut an infrastructure deal with Senate Republicans by dramatically curtailing the size and scope of his American Jobs Plan, activists with the youth-led Sunrise Movement gathered outside the White House Friday morning to make clear that compromising on climate action to appease the GOP is unacceptable. | Varshini Prakash, Sunrise…
truthout.org/articles/sunrise-movement-calls-on-biden-to-stop-compromising-with-republicans-on-climate/
One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis — here's how else warming affects our health
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-06-03
By Chloe Brimicombe and Hannah Cloke | — Since 1991, 37% of lives lost due to extreme heat globally can be attributed to climate change on average. That's according to a new study which gathered data from 732 locations across 43 countries and calculated how often local temperatures exceeded what is ideal for human health. …
juancole.com/2021/06/climate-warming-affects.html
UN Agencies Call for a Decade of Restoring Ecosystems to Confront Biodiversity and Climate Emergencies
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-06-03
"Restoration is essential for keeping global temperature rise below 2 ∞C, ensuring food security for a growing population, and slowing the rate of species extinctions." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/volunteers-beach-florida-2600×1361.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2021/06/03/un-agencies-call-decade-restoring-ecosystems-confront-biodiversity-and-climate?cd-origin=rss
Call It What It Is: A Climate Emergency
Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope | thenation.com | 2021-06-03
Call It What It Is: A Climate Emergency…
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-media/
Weapons expo disrupted by rainbow coalition
Alex Bainbridge | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-03
Standing up against the war profiteers at the Land Forces exhibition in Brisbane was a rainbow coalition of First Nations peoples, peace, climate and human rights defenders. Alex Bainbridge, Jim McIlroy and Steffi Leedham report.
greenleft.org.au/content/weapons-expo-disrupted-rainbow-coalition
Court case victory reflects power of school strikes
Zane Alcorn | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-03
The Federal Court's ruling that the government has a duty of care to protect young people from climate change is a win. Zane Alcorn argues it is due to mass mobilisations on the streets.
greenleft.org.au/content/court-case-victory-reflects-power-school-strikes
Humanity's #1 environmental problem is consumption–climate change is just one of the byproducts
Reynard Loki | nationofchange.org | 2021-06-03
By focusing the climate fight on what we emit, not what we consume, we are destined to fail–net-zero emissions policies aren't enough to prevent catastrophe.
nationofchange.org/2021/06/03/humanitys-1-environmental-problem-is-consumption-climate-change-is-just-one-of-the-byproducts/
Climate Justice and Movement Building: An Interview with Brian Tokar
Adam Aron | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-03
Brian Tokar is an activist and author, Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and a board and faculty member of the Institute for Social Ecology. He is the author of several books, including Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (Revised edition, 2014). He is also an editor,…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/03/climate-justice-and-movement-building-an-interview-with-brian-tokar/
Lakes are experiencing deoxygenation worldwide
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2021-06-03
"Climate change, together with [agricultural pollution], threatens vulnerable freshwater systems, adding to the urgency to strongly cut emissions."
nationofchange.org/2021/06/03/lakes-are-experiencing-deoxygenation-worldwide/
Red Alert: Only one Earth
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2021-06-03
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Making Peace with Nature (2021), highlights the 'gravity of the Earth's triple environmental emergencies: climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution'. | June 3, 2021…
mronline.org/2021/06/03/red-alert-only-one-earth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-alert-only-one-earth