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2021-07-26: News Headlines

Editor (2021-07-26). Climate Change: Why we can't trust mainstream media. mronline.org A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.

_____ (2021-07-26). Global Call On Banks To Stop Financing Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org To stop the world descending into full climate chaos, the continued burning of fossil fuels must be brought to an end as soon as possible. Even burning all coal, oil, and gas reserves already in production will push global temperature rise far beyond 1.5 ∞C and likely beyond 2 ∞C, the stated goal of the Paris Climate Agreement. This leaves no space for further exploration or extraction, yet many fossil fuel companies plan to vastly expand their operations, posing a true existential threat to people and planet.

WSWS (2021-07-26). Over 100 dead in landslides, flooding in the Indian state of Maharashtra. wsws.org For decades, the ruling elites have failed to act upon warnings made by climate scientists and to build infrastructure needed to control disasters, such as floods.

John Buell (2021-07-26). Living on a Newly Unrecognizable Planet. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — Germany is a wealthy nation. Its business and political leaders accept the reality of climate change and have made at least modest progress to prepare for and mitigate its effects. How then to respond to such events as a family moving to the roof of their house …

Moderator (2021-07-26). Our Exploitative Food System Is Killing Farm Workers. scheerpost.com Alex Proimos / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Jill Richardson | OtherWords Two farm workers died during a recent heatwave in Washington and Oregon. While this is outrageous, it's not unusual. Farm workers die in hot weather every year. Part of the reason is climate change — as temperatures soar, outdoor working conditions get deadlier. But another part of the problem is centuries old. The fact is that Europeans…

Dave Lindorff (2021-07-26). Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas. thenation.com Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas…

_____ (2021-07-26). House Dems Ask ExxonMobil Lobbyist to Testify About Climate Misinformation. commondreams.org "COP26 negotiators: take note."

_____ (2021-07-26). As Climate Emergency Batters World, Scientists Meet to Finalize Key Report Ahead of COP26. commondreams.org What better way to help Americans understand that inequality is killing us.

_____ (2021-07-26). It's Time for an Urgent Intervention in the Food System Ruining Our Climate. commondreams.org "The United States has now become one of those countries where environmental advocates are attacked, put in jail, or even murdered for doing their jobs successfully."

_____ (2021-07-26). Climate Crisis Will Bring More Record-Smashing Heat Waves in Coming Decades, Study Says. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-07-26). 'A Race Against Time': Doctors Without Borders Implores Rich Nations to Stop Stalling Patent Waiver. commondreams.org "The decisions nations make in the next few months will likely determine whether we will or will not ultimately limit global temperature rise at 1.5 ∞C," said the U.N.'s climate chief.

John Malkin (2021-07-26). Mindful Intelligence: Alan Clements on his new book "Extinction X-Rated" and film "Spiritually Incorrect" indybay.org Print and audio podcast interview with former Buddhist monk, author, journalist and activist performer Alan Clements.

George Monbiot (2021-07-26). Britain's rivers are suffocating to death. zcomm.org Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste…

Juan Cole (2021-07-25). Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Iran's southwestern Khuzestan region, the center of its petroleum industry, has been wracked with protests for a week, in part over water shortages. Rallies have erupted in the towns of Mahshahr, Izeh, Ahvaz, Kut-e Abdollah, Susangerd, Aligoudarz and Shoushtar, according to Amnesty International The Iranian government has sometimes replied to …

Clean Energy Wire (2021-07-25). Climate activists demand faster energy transition after flood disaster hits Germany. juancole.com By Charlotte Nijhuis | — ( Clean Energy Wire) — Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after catastrophic floods hit several parts of Germany last week. On 23 July, environmental group Robin Wood kicks off a three-week raft tour from Berlin to Hamburg in order to push for a faster energy transition. "We …

David Skripac (2021-07-25). Our War Against Nature. Humanity's March Toward Extinction? globalresearch.ca

Sushma Subramanian (2021-07-25). Sweltering From Heat Waves, Baltimore Needs Climate-Focused Infrastructure. truthout.org This story originally appeared in For years, an elderly man stood as a regular fixture around his East Baltimore neighborhood for the way he would wander the streets in the summer, trying to stay outside his sweltering home until nightfall. | T…

Abby Zimet (2021-07-25). That Right There Is Where He Was Hung: Slipping Free of the Shame To Say His Name, Now More Than Ever. commondreams.org "There is no pathway to this goal without the leadership of the G20," he said after a disagreement over a climate communiqué.

_____ (2021-07-25). 'Climate Change Is Here,' Says Oregon Governor, 'And We Have to Take Action'. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-07-25). Jeff Bezos Should Have Thanked American Taxpayers for Paying for His Space Ride. commondreams.org As wildfires devour her state, the Democrat declares that the climate emergency is "like a hammer hitting us in the head."

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2021-07-25: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2021-07-25). Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Iran's southwestern Khuzestan region, the center of its petroleum industry, has been wracked with protests for a week, in part over water shortages. Rallies have erupted in the towns of Mahshahr, Izeh, Ahvaz, Kut-e Abdollah, Susangerd, Aligoudarz and Shoushtar, according to Amnesty International The Iranian government has sometimes replied to …

Clean Energy Wire (2021-07-25). Climate activists demand faster energy transition after flood disaster hits Germany. juancole.com By Charlotte Nijhuis | — ( Clean Energy Wire) — Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after catastrophic floods hit several parts of Germany last week. On 23 July, environmental group Robin Wood kicks off a three-week raft tour from Berlin to Hamburg in order to push for a faster energy transition. "We …

The Conversation (2021-07-24). How food prices are affected by oil, trade agreements and climate change. juancole.com By Wyn Morgan | — ( The Conversation) — Concerns about inflation rates have risen as the UK economy begins its much-needed recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The Consumer Prices Index, the measure most commonly used to measure inflation, rose by 2.5% in June 2021, the highest level for three years. That headline …

John Scales Avery (2021-07-24). Climate: We Are Not Doing Enough. zcomm.org Despite the reduced emissions resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, the Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily, and the carbon dioxide content of the earth's atmosphere continues to rise steadily…

Kate Aronoff (2021-07-24). A New Global Group of 21 Lawmakers Will Pressure Countries on Climate Change. zcomm.org The Global Alliance for a Green New Deal wants sharper emissions cuts, better climate finance from rich countries, ecological justice, and more…

Chris McGreal (2021-07-24). How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action. nationofchange.org "I think it's fair to say that API and its prominent member companies have a broadly shared goal, which is to keep the social license of the oil and gas industry operating, and therefore enabling them to continue to extract oil and gas for as long as possible, as profitably as possible."

Olivia Riggio (2021-07-24). As US broils and Europe floods, media dismiss EU climate plan as 'ambitious'. nationofchange.org When humans seek to take aggressive action against this aggressive reality, reporters frame those goals as lofty and unlikely to succeed.

Roger Kneebone (2021-07-24). [Perspectives] Portrait or snapshot? thelancet.com Brigid Edwards is a leading botanical artist. She creates exquisite paintings on vellum, using watercolours and tiny brushes to create portraits of plants and insects. Her work also includes a series of postage stamps of creatures in danger of extinction. As well as the beauty of these images, her paintings are precise scientific records. One of her biggest challenges is to capture the nuances of colour, the precise green of a leaf, or the speckles on a beetle's back. Edwards combines a naturalist's observation with an artist's sensitivity and a craftsman's precision.

Audrey Nakagawa (2021-07-24). Coral disease spreading in Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships. nationofchange.org Since the identification of the disease off Virginia Key in 2014, it has spread to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and Mexico.

California Feminist Taxpayer (2021-07-24). Stop Waste of Tax Dollars on 2d Prosecution of H Weinstein. indybay.org Harvey Weinstein, the 69 year old, very sick, film producer, sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York at age 67 for rape, a life sentence given his age,has now been extradited to Los Angeles where California taxpayers will have to pay millions of dollars for yet another rape trial of a sick old man. This does not solve the rape problem at all; it is theft of our tax dollars.

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