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2021-10-08: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-08). Indigenous people take over a pipeline station in the Peruvian Amazon. peoplesdispatch.org The Indigenous people of the Loreto region in the Peruvian Amazon are demanding environmental remediation against numerous oil spills. They also seek infrastructure guaranteeing basic services in the region…

Viv Forbes (2021-10-08). Climate Lies and Green Energy Propaganda: Time for Truth-Telling in Glasgow. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Andrew Glikson (2021-10-08). The Glasgow Climate Agenda: Global Warming to 2⁰C and Beyond. globalresearch.ca

Brett Wilkins (2021-10-08). Big Oil Spending Millions to Gut Key Build Back Better Climate Provisions. zcomm.org "Make no mistake: If the Build Back Better bill wasn't a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in climate action, the fossil fuel industry wouldn't be pouring out millions of dollars trying to stop it."

Jeffrey St. Clair (2021-10-08). Roaming Charges: When the Inevitable Becomes the Criminal. counterpunch.org The Huntington Beach blowout was not merely predictable. It was inevitable. But when does the inevitable become the criminal? And where does the liability begin and end? With the pipeline company? The oil drilling company? The holding companies? Their lobbyists and PR hacks? The hedge funds? The regulators? The politicians?

Carey Gillam (2021-10-08). Bayer Wins Roundup Trial; Plaintiff Fails to Prove Exposure Caused Child's Disease. globalresearch.ca

Ann Brown (2021-10-07). Democrat Senator Sinema Under Scrutiny Over Net Worth Exploding From $35K To $1 Million. moguldom.com All eyes are on Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, with many wondering how she increased her net worth from $32,500 in 2018 to an estimated $1 million today. Sinema is blocking the Democrats from passing an ambitious social policy and climate bill while at the same time raising money from five business lobbying groups, many of …

WSWS (2021-10-07). Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for pioneering research in climate change and chaos theory. wsws.org This year's prize highlights the connection between seemingly random events, such as the weather on a given day, showing they arise from law-governed and knowable underlying processes.

John Feffer (2021-10-07). Climate-Change Transition in the Age of the Billionaire. counterpunch.org It was supposed to be the greatest transition of modern times. Practically overnight, a dirty, inefficient, and unjust system that encompassed 11 time zones was to undergo an extreme makeover. Billions of dollars were available to speed the process. A new crew of transition experts came up with the blueprint and the public was overwhelmingly

John Feffer (2021-10-07). Climate-change transition in the Age of Billionaires. salon.com Can we create a world of solidarity economics or are we doomed to climate profiteering?>

Juan Cole (2021-10-07). Coral reefs are dying as climate change decimates ocean ecosystems vital to fish and humans. juancole.com By Sam Purkis | — The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from any continent. Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an underwater mountain chain. It's a …

sputniknews (2021-10-07). 123 Arrested as Climate Activists Block Central Bridge in Finnish Capital. sputniknews.com The demonstrators urge the Finnish government declare a climate emergency and act more forcefully on the climate change, including binding legislation in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025, a decade ahead of the government's current goal of 2035.

Extinction Rebellion Santa Cruz (2021-10-07). Friday 10/8: Stop the Money Pipeline at CHASE. indybay.org Chase Bank on Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…

Jake Johnson (2021-10-07). As Rich Nations Waste Doses, Most African Countries Miss 10% Vaccination Goal. zcomm.org "We have recently seen a billionaire take a healthcare worker on a journey into space. But back here on planet Earth we have millions of nurses waiting for a vaccine."

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2021-10-07: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-10-07). Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for pioneering research in climate change and chaos theory. wsws.org This year's prize highlights the connection between seemingly random events, such as the weather on a given day, showing they arise from law-governed and knowable underlying processes.

John Feffer (2021-10-07). Climate-change transition in the Age of Billionaires. salon.com Can we create a world of solidarity economics or are we doomed to climate profiteering?>

John Feffer (2021-10-07). Climate-Change Transition in the Age of the Billionaire. counterpunch.org It was supposed to be the greatest transition of modern times. Practically overnight, a dirty, inefficient, and unjust system that encompassed 11 time zones was to undergo an extreme makeover. Billions of dollars were available to speed the process. A new crew of transition experts came up with the blueprint and the public was overwhelmingly

sputniknews (2021-10-07). 123 Arrested as Climate Activists Block Central Bridge in Finnish Capital. sputniknews.com The demonstrators urge the Finnish government declare a climate emergency and act more forcefully on the climate change, including binding legislation in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025, a decade ahead of the government's current goal of 2035.

Juan Cole (2021-10-07). Coral reefs are dying as climate change decimates ocean ecosystems vital to fish and humans. juancole.com By Sam Purkis | — The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from any continent. Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an underwater mountain chain. It's a …

Extinction Rebellion Santa Cruz (2021-10-07). Friday 10/8: Stop the Money Pipeline at CHASE. indybay.org Chase Bank on Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…

Jake Johnson (2021-10-07). As Rich Nations Waste Doses, Most African Countries Miss 10% Vaccination Goal. zcomm.org "We have recently seen a billionaire take a healthcare worker on a journey into space. But back here on planet Earth we have millions of nurses waiting for a vaccine."

Todd Miller (2021-10-06). For the US, the climate plan is more walls and armed agents at the US-Mexico border. thegrayzone.com US greenhouse gas emissions are inextricably linked to booming border militarization budgets and private security industry profit This article was originally published by Todd Miller's The Border Chronicle. Subscribe here. Sasabe, Mexico — Not long into our conversation, the young woman at the migrant resource center in Sasabe, Sonora, told me why she had left her home in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala: floods had ruined her family's crops. Her name was Flor* and she was 19 years old. Two Category 4 …

_____ (2021-10-06). Criminal Cases Against Line 3 Protesters Clog Court System. popularresistance.org Brainerd, Minnesota – Maya Stovall was a student at Carleton College helping organize on climate issues when she learned about the Line 3 oil pipeline. | She decided to travel to northern Minnesota to join the protests against the pipeline — and kept going back. | "Fighting Line 3 felt like the thing to be doing," said Stovall, 20, who is from Illinois and majoring in political science and international relations. "We can't have new fossil fuel infrastructure like Line 3 if we're going to have a breathable planet." | In March, Stovall was arrested along with other protesters who locked themselves together s…

The Third Pole (2021-10-06). Will this Year's Conference of Parties (COP) 26 Seek Climate Justice for Global South, too? juancole.com By Omair Ahmad | — ( Third Pole ) — Unless the connection between economic security and a green transition is made clear by the media and politicians, the climate summit will remain full of high talk with little content Woman loading charcoal in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. There will be little progress in combating climate …

Jessica Corbett (2021-10-06). Fossil Fuel Demand Tops Pre-Pandemic Levels. zcomm.org "So much for 'building back better' and a 'green recovery,'" said youth climate leader Greta Thunberg…

Alexander Sammon (2021-10-06). The Oil Merchant in the Gray Flannel Suit. zcomm.org Why aren't insurance companies aggressively fighting climate change, and minimizing catastrophes? Look at their balance sheets…

Anonymous103 (2021-10-06). Who's Running The Show? Kerry Tells French TV Biden 'Literally Not Aware' Of International Spat. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published on President Joe Biden was 'literally not aware' of the spat between the United States and France which was ignited by the Biden administration's tri-lateral agreement with the UK and Australia over the exchange of submarine technology, according to Climate Envoy John Kerry. | The spat was so bad that French President Emmanuel Macron briefly recalled his ambassador to the US. | "[Biden] asked me. He said, 'What's the situation…

MEE, agencies (2021-10-06). Turkey ratifies Paris agreement ahead of climate summit. middleeasteye.net Turkey ratifies Paris agreement ahead of climate summit | Ankara becomes the last G20 nation to ratify the climate accord | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 21: 09 | The agreement on carbon emissions was ratified unanimously by the 353 members of Turkey's Parliament (AFP) |

Amory B. Lovins (2021-10-06). "Low-carbon" Misses the Point: Arguments Favoring Nuclear Power as a Climate "Solution" are Fundamentally Misframed. counterpunch.org The view that climate protection requires expanding nuclear power has a basic flaw in its prevailing framing: it rarely if ever relates climate-effectiveness to cost or to speed—even though stopping climate change requires scaling the fastest and cheapest solutions. By focusing on carbon but only peripherally mentioning cost and speed, and by not relating these

WSWS repost (2021-10-06). Attorney sentenced to six months for contempt in vindictive case brought by Chevron. indybay.org Steven Donziger, who exposed the decades-long contamination of the Amazon rainforest by the oil giant and won a billion-dollar settlement against the company, was sentenced on Friday to a maximum of six months in prison.

No Nukes Action (2021-10-06). Monday 10/11: SF Rally At SF Japanese Consulate To Stop The NUKES & Defend The People Of Fukushima. indybay.org San Francisico Japanese Consulate | 275 Battery St. | San Francisco…

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