(2021-07-09). Friday 7/23: Fukushima, The Pandemic & Olympics On The Opening Of the Olympics. indybay.org LaborFest…
(2021-07-09). Objection To Geoengineering Spurs Debate About Social Justice In Science. popularresistance.org It was February in northern Sweden and the sun was returning after a dark winter. In the coming months the tundra would reawaken with lichens and shrubs for reindeer to forage in the permafrost encrusted Scandinavian mountain range. But the changing season also brought some unwelcome news to the Indigenous Sámi people, who live across northern Scandinavia, Finland and eastern Russia. | The members of the Saami Council were informed that researchers at Harvard planned to test a developing technology for climate mitigation, known as solar geoengineering, in Sápmi, their homeland. "When we learned what the idea of s…
(2021-07-08). Headlines for July 8, 2021. democracynow.org Haiti Declares "State of Siege" After Assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse, Japan Declares Virus Emergency Through Tokyo Olympics as Global COVID-19 Deaths Pass 4 Million, North America Recorded Hottest June on Record Amid Worsening Climate Crisis, Line 3 Pipeline Foes Say Enbridge Spilled Drilling Chemicals in Minnesota River, U.S. Soldiers and Diplomats Come Under Fire in Iraq and Syria, Human Rights Commission Calls for Demilitarization of Colombia's Police, Unhoused Atlanta Residents Form Union, Occupy City Hall Pressing Demands , Dozens of States Sue Google for Creating App Store Monopoly , Trump…
(2021-07-08). Friday 7/23: Fukushima, The Pandemic & Olympics On The Opening Of the Olympics. indybay.org LaborFest…
(2021-07-08). NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil. orinocotribune.com 
By James Baratta — Jul 2, 2021 | Attorney Steven Donziger at his contempt of court trial (Intercept, 5/17/21) (photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) | Steven R. Donziger—the human rights attorney who in 2011 won a $9.5 billion legal victory in Ecuador over the Chevron Corporation for the dumping of roughly 16 billion gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon—has been under house arrest for 696 days (as of July 2) (FAIR.org, 9/11/20). | This unprecedented legal situation is happening in New York City, the hometown of the New York Times—but the paper of record has yet to report on Do…
(2021-07-08). Towards A People's Climate Conference. popularresistance.org Today, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting of Environment Ministers of its member states to plan for a people's climate summit that will draw up proposals for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November. Meeting participants agreed to convene in Venezuela, which will be followed by a people's conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia. | The people's conference "will count with the participation of groups particularly vulnerable to climate change; youth, women and indigenous peoples of the world, with the aim of adopting a declaration with a view to the COP 26 of Glasg…
(2021-07-08). ALBA: Towards A People's Climate Conference. popularresistance.org Today, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting of Environment Ministers of its member states to plan for a people's climate summit that will draw up proposals for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November. Meeting participants agreed to convene in Venezuela, which will be followed by a people's conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
(2021-07-08). Is AltE Truly the Best Solution to Climate Catastrophe? counterpunch.org "Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!… Accumulation for the sake of accumulation, production for the sake of production: this was the historical mission of the bourgeoisie in the period of its domination …" — Karl Marx, Capital, Vol 1, Ch 25 The world is threatened with environmental disaster and capitalists hope to make
(2021-07-08). Climate Emergency is Driving Ocean's Dead Zones, which emit more and more Nitrous oxide, a super powerful greenhouse gas. juancole.com 
By Brett Jameson | — In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel John P. Tully in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Vancouver Island. Battling rough seas and lack of sleep, we spent the better part of a week working shoulder-to-shoulder in a …
(2021-07-08). Northwest Heat Wave Would've Been "Virtually Impossible" Without Climate Crisis. truthout.org 
A rapid-response scientific analysis of the Pacific Northwest heatwave that has killed
(2021-07-08). Biden Mocks Ron Johnson for Saying Climate Crisis Is "Bullshit" truthout.org 
President Joe Biden took aim at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) on Wednesday for the Republican lawmaker's recent comments, in which he asserted that the climate crisis was "bullshit." | Biden, speaking to a crowd at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois,
(2021-07-08). A People's Green New Deal: An interview with Max Ajl. mronline.org Climate crisis is a disaster which impacts us all, but the culpability is not evenly distributed. The rich nations of North America, Europe, Japan and Australia have contributed 60% of global cumulative CO2 emissions, compared to 13% for the two largest developing economies, China and India, taken together. | July 8, 2021…
(2021-07-08). Despite Risks to Climate, U.S. Backs Oil Boom in Guyana. progressive.org The Biden Administration is supporting ExxonMobil's oil exports from the South American nation, ignoring the dangers of global warming caused by fossil fuels.
(2021-07-08). ALBA Environment Ministers Discuss Climate Change Cooperation. telesurenglish.net In this sense, the integration bloc's executive secretary, Sacha Llorenti, highlighted the approval of an agenda with concrete proposals for joint work before the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland. | RELATED: | On Wednesday, the ALBA-TCP held a virtual ministerial meeting to draw up cooperation strategies around the environmental challenges…
(2021-07-08). 45+ Groups Say 'Future of Our Planet Depends on Ending New Cold War' Between US and China. commondreams.org "Climate policy isn't about imagining a spectrum from left to right and finding the sweet spot in the middle. It's a zero-sum battle with physics."
(2021-07-08). America's Accountability Problem. commondreams.org "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to confront the climate crisis and create millions of middle-class union jobs," he said. "Creating a new Civilian Climate Corps is a key step."
(2021-07-08). Family Farms Can Help Solve Climate Change. commondreams.org "Amid a climate emergency that is wreaking havoc on communities across the globe, the path to a livable future demands new internationalism rooted in global cooperation, resource sharing, and solidarity," the coalition told the White House and Congress. | To truly mitigate climate change, we need to focus on the long-term economic viability of independent family farms who respect the land and raise animals the right way.
(2021-07-08). 'This Is Huge': Schumer Commits to Creating Civilian Climate Corps. commondreams.org "If we continue to let the virus run loose," warned one virologist, "I'm certain we'll run out of letters and future variants will likely be worse than the current crop."
(2021-07-08). Study Shows Deadly Northwest Heatwave Would've Been 'Virtually Impossible' Without Climate Crisis. commondreams.org The GOP have been methodically doing all they can to asphyxiate democracy. And they can do a lot more before the 2022 midterms.
(2021-07-08). Right-Wing Groups Mobilize Against Effort to Crack Down on Tax Dodging by the Rich. commondreams.org "This study is telling us climate change is killing people."