2022-03-15: News Headlines

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-14). Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including "natural capital."

_____ (2022-03-14). Why The World Needs Eco-Socialism. popularresistance.org Climate change affects everyone, but it does not affect everyone the same way. It hammers a capitalist world rampant with inequality and exploitation. This is the case because capitalism neither exploits nor develops evenly. Some nation-states are centers for accumulating wealth and development. Some nation-states are peripheries, and are underdeveloped. | Development and underdevelopment are two sides of the same process: accumulation on a world scale. Climate change, in turn, is a human-made process, a product and accelerator of uneven accumulation. Because it is human-made, some states (as well as some within…

_____ (2022-03-14). A Climate Wake-Up Call For The Chemical Industry. popularresistance.org In 2017, the Trump administration sided with industry lobbyists and rescinded safety rules governing thousands of chemical plants across America. Five years later — after multiple chemical plant explosions in the Houston area — government investigators are telling lawmakers that a lack of federal regulation is heightening the risk of chemical disasters during climate change-related extreme weather events at thousands of facilities nationwide. | President Joe Biden's administration is considering issuing a new rule regulating such facilities — but not until next summer. Chemical companies and ind…

Sunflower Alliance (2022-03-14). Sunday 3/13: Climate and Militarism. indybay.org Zoom — For link, RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org

Johanna Kichton (2022-03-14). 120+ Progressive Groups Urge Schumer to Finish the Job and Pass Biden's Agenda on Climate, Care, and Economic Justice. peoplesaction.org In New Letter, Groups Call on Schumer to Whip Caucus and Bring Package to a Vote in April Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action, the Working Families Party, Indivisible, and the Center for Popular Democracy Action today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Schumer urging him to resume negotiations, hold hearings, and …

ecns.cn (2022-03-14). Hippotherium weihoense represents earliest three-toed horse in Eurasia: Chinese researchers. ecns.cn Morphologic comparison indicates previously reported Hipparion weihoense and Hipparion chiai should be referred to as the same species, Hippotherium weihoense, an extinct horse genus.

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