(2021-06-04). Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire. counterpunch.org 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
(2021-06-04). Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire. zcomm.org 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…
(2021-06-04). Sunrise Movement Calls on Biden to Stop Compromising With Republicans on Climate. truthout.org As President Joe Biden looks to cut an Varshini Prakash, Sunrise…
(2021-06-04). Colonial cover ups and the invention of 'Islamo-leftism'. nationofchange.org 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.
(2021-06-04). Sunday 6/6: Climate Action Mural Unveiling & Celebration In Clarion Alley. indybay.org Clarion Alley, between Mission and Valencia Streets, and between 17th and 18th Streets in San Francisco…
(2021-06-03). One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis — here's how else warming affects our health. juancole.com 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. …
(2021-06-03). Red Alert: Only one Earth. mronline.org 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…
(2021-06-03). UN Agencies Call for a Decade of Restoring Ecosystems to Confront Biodiversity and Climate Emergencies. commondreams.org "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 …
(2021-06-03). Sunday 6/6: Climate Action Mural Unveiling & Celebration In Clarion Alley. indybay.org Clarion Alley, between Mission and Valencia Streets, and between 17th and 18th Streets in San Francisco…
(2021-06-03). Call It What It Is: A Climate Emergency. thenation.com Call It What It Is: A Climate Emergency…
(2021-06-03). Court case victory reflects power of school strikes. greenleft.org.au 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.
(2021-06-03). Weapons expo disrupted by rainbow coalition. greenleft.org.au 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.
(2021-06-03). Lakes are experiencing deoxygenation worldwide. nationofchange.org "Climate change, together with [agricultural pollution], threatens vulnerable freshwater systems, adding to the urgency to strongly cut emissions."
(2021-06-03). Humanity's #1 environmental problem is consumption—climate change is just one of the byproducts. nationofchange.org 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.
(2021-06-03). Climate Justice and Movement Building: An Interview with Brian Tokar. counterpunch.org 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,