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2021-07-18: News Headlines

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

March for Science (2021-07-18). Friday 7/16: SC1.5CE Not Silence: Virutal Climate Action Forum. indybay.org Online forum…

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…

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,

_____ (2021-07-17). Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against Sheriff. popularresistance.org Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota. | The Hubbard County Sheriff has unlawfully blockaded access to a camp serving as a convergence space and home for Indigenous-led organizing, decolonization and treaty rights trainings, and religious activities by water pro…

_____ (2021-07-17). Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against MN Sheriff. popularresistance.org Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota.

The Conversation (2021-07-17). Why our climate emergency is forcing conservationists to be more ambitious: by moving threatened species to new pastures. juancole.com By Sarah Elizabeth Dalrymple | — ( The Conversation) — As climate change brings record droughts and floods, extended fire seasons continue to make headlines, and the role of humans in this terrible situation is now undisputed, institutional change has been slow and unsteady. In particular, conservationists have been wary of pointing to climate change …

Juan Cole (2021-07-17). With Massive Flooding in Germany, Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Our burning of gasoline, coal and natural gas on a massive global scale, putting tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually, is turning the earth into . . . well, a greenhouse. Greenhouses are closed up, keeping in heat and moisture. In a greenhouse, the …

_____ (2021-07-17). Animal Extinction Protesters Blockade McDonalds Factory. popularresistance.org The 'animal and climate justice' movement said that around 100 protestors set up a blockade using trucks, tents, bamboo structures in the early hours of Thursday morning to stop the facility from distributing burgers. Trucks with the sign "McMurder" stood outside the factory while police vans encircled the area.

_____ (2021-07-17). Greenland Bans All Oil Exploration. popularresistance.org The government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world's largest island, calling it "a natural step" because the Arctic government "takes the climate crisis seriously." | No oil has been found yet around Greenland, but officials there had seen potentially vast reserves as a way to help Greenlanders realize their long-held dream of independence from Denmark by cutting the subsidy of the equivalent of about $680 million Canadian the Danish territory receives from the Danish government every year. | Global warming means that retreating ice could uncover potential oil and mineral resourc…

Staff (2021-07-17). Manchin Wants to Invest More Taxpayer Money in Propping Up Fossil Fuel Industry. truthout.org The time has come for Democrats in Congress to debate the future of the fossil fuel industry as they write sweeping climate legislation that could define President Joe Biden's legacy. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), a conservative Democrat and a key vote in the Senate, drew a line in the sand this week, telling fellow Democrats and media outlets that eliminating fossil fuels is off the table. | Instead of phasing out fossil fuels and investing heavily in cleaner energy sources such as…

David Skripac (2021-07-17). "Our Species is Being Genetically Modified": Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Analysis of the Microbiome and Virome. globalresearch.ca This year marks a turning point in human history. For the first time since human civilization began, our species is being genetically modified. Vaccine manufacturers have now made it possible for the human genome to be permanently altered —and humanity's relationship with nature forever changed.

_____ (2021-07-17). Companies Must Disclose—and Face—Mounting Climate Risks. commondreams.org

Ashley Curtin (2021-07-17). 'Dirty Truth': New campaign exposes utilities failing to deliver on climate pledges. nationofchange.org "This ad brings to light the true cost of fossil fuels—our health, our livelihood, and our future—and the truth that many American utility companies are purposefully misleading the public about their commitments to switch to green electricity."

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2021-07-17: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2021-07-17). With Massive Flooding in Germany, Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Our burning of gasoline, coal and natural gas on a massive global scale, putting tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually, is turning the earth into . . . well, a greenhouse. Greenhouses are closed up, keeping in heat and moisture. In a greenhouse, the …

The Conversation (2021-07-17). Why our climate emergency is forcing conservationists to be more ambitious: by moving threatened species to new pastures. juancole.com By Sarah Elizabeth Dalrymple | — ( The Conversation) — As climate change brings record droughts and floods, extended fire seasons continue to make headlines, and the role of humans in this terrible situation is now undisputed, institutional change has been slow and unsteady. In particular, conservationists have been wary of pointing to climate change …

March for Science (2021-07-17). Friday 7/16: SC1.5CE Not Silence: Virutal Climate Action Forum. indybay.org Online forum…

_____ (2021-07-17). Companies Must Disclose—and Face—Mounting Climate Risks. commondreams.org

Karl Engels (2021-07-16). 'Clean water case of the century': Environmentalists score landmark wastewater dumping victory. peoplesworld.org Clean water activists and environmental groups are celebrating a federal court victory in Hawaii that will force a Maui County wastewater treatment plant to stop a dumping practice that has endangered fragile marine environments for decades. The win has national repercussions, however, as it sets a new precedent for how pollutants that threaten waterways can …

_____ (2021-07-16). US Peace Activists In Germany Join Call For Withdrawal Of Nuclear Weapons. popularresistance.org A group of US peace activists has again joined protests at the Bàºchel Air Force Base in Germany, demanding the withdrawal of the remaining US hydrogen-bombs still deployed there. | On July 12 the anti-nuclear and anti-war campaigners, together with colleagues from The Netherlands and Germany, began an "International Week" of protests focused on ousting the last approximately 20 US Air Force nuclear gravity bombs known as B61s kept at the base.* In the depths of the cold war, there were 7,000 US nuclear weapons in Germany, so this remnant seems like hardly more than radioactive waste. | With the German group…

Nick Engelfried (2021-07-16). As Biden backslides, climate movement prepares to seize this 'now or never' moment. zcomm.org Tired of waiting for progress as the world burns, climate activists are shaping the public narrative — through mass protest and targeted actions — to favor federal legislation.

CJ Polychroniou (2021-07-16). Radical Political Action Is Our Only Hope to Stop Criminal Negligence of Climate Emergency. zcomm.org It can be done. It must be done. For there is no tomorrow if we fail to decarbonize and thus rescue the planet from a climate catastrophe…

_____ (2021-07-16). 'Danger to the World': 1,200+ Scientists Denounce Boris Johnson's Plan to End UK Covid Restrictions. commondreams.org As recent disasters have shown, the world's small island developing states are acutely vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, a problem created almost entirely by rich countries.

Jack Ohman (2021-07-16). Climate Change Nature Guide. thenation.com Climate Change Nature Guide…

Kim Stanley Robinson (2021-07-16). The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction. thenation.com The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction…

Staff (2021-07-16). Climate Profiteering: $13.5B Trust for California Fire Victims Funnels Funds to Lawyers & Consultants. democracynow.org We look at the corporate profiteering off people who lost their homes and loved ones to recent fires in California, where wildfires continue to rage amid record temperatures. A major investigation by KQED and NPR's California Newsroom found a special trust set up to distribute $13.5 billion to survivors of wildfires caused by PG&E — the state's largest utility company — instead spent lavishly on its own administration while distributing almost nothing to the 70,000 fire victims, many of whom still live in trailers. Those who profited while the fire victims waited for help included Wall Street bankers…

Staff (2021-07-16). Floods, Fires & Heat Waves: Michael Mann on "The New Climate War" & the Fight to Take Back the Planet. democracynow.org We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around the world. He says he and other scientists predicted the extreme weather events now wreaking havoc. "We said that if we don't stop burning fossil fuels and elevating the levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and we continue to warm up the planet, we will see unprecedented heat waves and wildfires and floods and droughts and superstorms," says Mann. His new book is titled ‚Ä®"The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet."

_____ (2021-07-16). Water Protectors Against Line 3 Sue Over Police Blockade of Indigenous Camp. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-07-16). 'We Are in Deep, Deep Sh*t': Climate Experts Shocked at Severity of Floods in Germany and Belgium. commondreams.org Both the White House and the Surgeon General have targeted conservative news outlets and social media platforms for fueling resurgence of Covid-19…

_____ (2021-07-16). Ocasio-Cortez: 'House Progressives Are Standing Up' for Infrastructure Plan Prioritizing Care, Climate. commondreams.org Biden left out the only word that really counts: "Filibuster."

_____ (2021-07-16). Including Environmental and Health Costs, True Price of Food Is 3 Times What Americans Pay, Report Finds. commondreams.org "If Sen. Manchin and the rest of the Senate approve the 'reconciliation bill' then we will approve their bipartisan bill. But if they try to strip immigration reform, child care, climate action, etc., then we're at an impasse," said the New York Democrat.

_____ (2021-07-16). 'Future Belongs to Renewable Energy': Greenland Ditches All Oil Drilling. commondreams.org "This is your climate on fossil fuel."

_____ (2021-07-16). Rich Countries Created Climate Crisis Ravaging Island States. commondreams.org "Great news!" exclaimed one international legal group.

Derek Royden (2021-07-16). The trials of land and water protectors in a world on fire. nationofchange.org "Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems … humans cannot."

Emma Pattee (2021-07-16). The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago. nationofchange.org Experts' discoveries lie at the heart of two dozen lawsuits that hope to hold the industry accountable for devastating damage.

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