2021-07-19: News Headlines

Blake Skylar (2021-07-19). In Germany and worldwide, climate change-fueled weather crisis wreaks havoc. peoplesworld.org Floods caused by global warming in Germany have left 108 people dead and at least 1,300 others missing. The tragedy is the latest in a pattern of natural disasters worldwide, highlighting the dire reality that devastating weather events will continue and worsen due to climate change. Days before turbid waves ripped through the western part …

Tom Engelhardt (2021-07-19). Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Migration as Resistance. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Give Joe Biden credit. As a 78-year-old mainstream politician, he's made some surprisingly bold moves domestically when it comes, for instance, to climate change — even if his plans have been quite literally paralyzed by Senate Minority Leader …

Susan Price (2021-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf – For a people's green new deal. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents A People's Green New Deal, plus three new books on pandemics and two on the global food crisis.

Ian Angus (2021-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — For a people's green new deal. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents A People's Green New Deal, plus three new books on pandemics and two on the global food crisis.

Paul Gregoire (2021-07-19). Court rules government has a climate duty of care to young people. greenleft.org.au Federal environment minister Sussan Ley is going to challenge a July ruling that the government has a duty of care "to avoid causing personal injury or death" to children when considering the approval of fossil fuel projects. Paul Gregoire reports.

Paul Gregoire (2021-07-19). Court rules gov't has a climate duty of care to young people. greenleft.org.au Federal environment minister Sussan Ley is going to challenge a July ruling that the government has a duty of care "to avoid causing personal injury or death" to children when considering the approval of fossil fuel projects. Paul Gregoire reports.

_____ (2021-07-19). Sunrise Launches Green New Deal Jobs Website to Celebrate Future of Climate-Friendly Work. commondreams.org "It's bad information" about vaccines that is killing people, the president said.

_____ (2021-07-19). In Gift to Rich Tax Cheats, Republicans Strip IRS Funds From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. commondreams.org "We've now reached stratospheric inequality. Billionaires burning into space, away from a world of pandemic, climate change, and starvation."

_____ (2021-07-19). Pushed By Press Freedom Advocates, Garland Limits DOJ's Ability to Seize Reporters' Phone Records. commondreams.org The new tool shows "another future is possible—one that's not extractive and includes fulfilling, good-paying jobs that will revitalize our communities and combat climate change."

_____ (2021-07-19). Internet Companies' $234 Million in Political Spending Harms Efforts to Close Digital Divide: Report. commondreams.org "We don't have to wait for international agreements on the climate and nature crises," the new alliance states. "Change can happen now."

March for Science (2021-07-19). Friday 7/16: SC1.5CE Not Silence: Virutal Climate Action Forum. indybay.org Online forum…

_____ (2021-07-18). Wet Bulb Temperature Is The Scariest Part Of The Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org Wet bulb temperature is one of those features of climate change caused by global warming that often gets left out when discussing the radical changes our planet is going to experience in the coming years. Discussion has largely focused on issues such as drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, storm activity, and even unusual cold. The impacts of increased heat have been left out because we assume, incorrectly it turns out, that human beings can adapt to moderate increases in global temperature. | This turns out to be false, particularly in areas prone to hot and humid weather. It all comes down to one measure: wet bulb t…

Center For Biological Diversity (2021-07-18). Biodiversity Negotiations Fail to Call for Global Halt to Species Extinctions. globalresearch.ca

Juan Cole (2021-07-18). Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control. zcomm.org The climate scientists who are cautiously suggesting that climate change is becoming nonlinear are saying we just went through the looking glass…

Julia Conley (2021-07-18). Climate Experts Shocked at Severity of Floods in Germany and Belgium. zcomm.org "This is your climate on fossil fuel."

Michael Mann (2021-07-18). Floods, Fires & Heat Waves. zcomm.org Interview on on "The New Climate War" & the Fight to Take Back the Planet…

_____ (2021-07-18). Despite Climate Crisis, Governments Failing to Use Covid Stimulus for Green Recovery. commondreams.org While giving the protests in Cuba a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.

Staff (2021-07-18). Detroit's Prison Population Will Soon Be Stuck Living Next to a Toxic Site. truthout.org "It felt all too real," Siwatu-Salama Ra said from her home in Detroit, Michigan. Her lifelong struggles against two injustices plaguing her community — pollution and incarceration — had become fused in a surreal way. | Three years ago, Ra,

_____ (2021-07-18). US Drilling Approvals Increase Despite Biden Climate Pledge. popularresistance.org Billings, Montana — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden's reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance. | The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20. | New Mexico and Wyo…

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