Climate Change

Accelerating Equity In Electric Cars

December 8, 2019 By Gabreille Gurley, American Prospect Create! Climate Change, Electric Cars, New Economy

Electric cars will eventually be all cars, but the speed by which they displace conventional cars will depend on making them affordable for low- and middle-income drivers. This transition already risks leaving low- and moderate-income people behind at a time when the country should be accelerating this shift to meet the ambitious net-zero emission goals needed to save a habitable planet. These concerns have spurred the push for an equitable transition that avoids the apartheid that has characterized the country’s most significant economic and technological transitions.

The New Stateless Peoples: Confronting US Culpability In The Climate Refugee Crisis

December 7, 2019 By Gwyneth Bernier, Commondreams.org Educate! Climate Change, Refugees

In light of a historically low proposed refugee resettlement ceiling, migration policy has been a central issue in the 2020 United States presidential election. However, it is rarely discussed in conjunction with climate change. When it is, politicians often erroneously conflate people fleeing the effects of global warming with opportunistic economic migrants and summarily toss them aside.

Wealthy Countries’ Approach To Climate Change Condemns Hundreds Of Millions Of People To Suffer

December 6, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Reform

In Madrid, Spain, the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference—known as COP25—began on December 2. Representatives of the world’s countries gathered to discuss what is decidedly a serious problem for the planet; no one, except dangerous political forces in the neofascist right, denies the reality of climate change. What prevents a transfer from carbon-based fuel to other fuels is not the stubbornness of this or that country. The main problems are three...

Report: Climate Disasters Force 20 Million To Leave Their Homes, 200 Million Since 2008

December 5, 2019 Staff, Oxfam.org Educate! Climate Change, Displacement

Climate fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade, forcing more than 20 million people a year – one person every two seconds - to leave their homes, said Oxfam today. The contentious issue of financial support for communities, including displaced communities, which have suffered loss and damage as a result of the climate crisis is expected to take centre stage at the UN Climate Summit in Madrid from 2 – 13 December 2019. Oxfam’s briefing ‘Forced from Home’ reveals that the number of climate related weather disasters that result in displacement have increased five-fold over the last decade.

Climate Talks In Madrid: What Will It Take To Prevent Climate Collapse?

December 5, 2019 Brian Tokar, Popular Resistance Educate! Climate Change, COP 25

The two-week marathon of the annual UN climate conference is underway in Madrid, and the world’s expectations have perhaps never been lower. The Amazon is burning and unprecedented storms are raging worldwide, but the world’s climate diplomats are still mostly talking business-as-usual. The outcome of the current Madrid talks are hard to predict in any detail, but most likely we will see a series of modest, incremental steps to implement various provisions of the already-inadequate Paris Agreement. With a new generation of activists in the streets demanding more serious climate action and clamoring for climate justice, we may be seeing the beginnings of a movement that can finally turn things around.

Nader: Trump Should Be Impeached For His Climate Policies

December 2, 2019 Ralph Nader, Nader.org Create! Climate Change, Impeachment, Trump Administration

It is time to take Donald Trump’s disregard for climate crisis seriously. As Commander in Chief, Trump is abdicating his duties to protect his people, instead actively aiding and abetting the corporate polluters who are causing the climate chaos. Trump is wasting irreplaceable time that we need to prevent a worsening climate crisis. Trump’s actions, expanding the fossil fuel industry’s emissions, make the perils even worse. This is another reason for impeachment—climate crisis jeopardizes the American people in major ways.

Thousands Of Activists Stage Protests At Three German Coal Mines To Demand Bolder Climate Policies

December 2, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Coal Mining, Germany, Protests

On the heels of Friday's global youth-led climate strike, thousands of activists staged demonstrations at three coal mines in Germany Saturday to protest the government's plan to phase out coal by 2038, which activists say isn't soon enough. The German news agency dpa reported that "protesters ran into the Jänschwalde and Welzow-Süd open-cast mining sites in the eastern state of Brandenburg, as well as the United Schleenhain lignite mining area in neighboring Saxony." Ende Gelände (End of the Road), which helped organize the protests, said there were about 4,000 demonstrators total...

Over 5,000 Police Deployed To Monitor Climate Summit In Spain

December 2, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Climate Change, Police, Repression, Spain

Spain’s authorities have deployed over 5,000 officers to monitor the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) to be held in Madrid from Monday. While the Civil Guard will control vehicular traffic and airport security, the Defense Ministry will supervise air safety. For its part, Madrid's Municipal Police will control urban mobility and support government delegations in their movements. This special surveillance reinforcement device, which is part of a level-4 alert, will remain until Dec. 14, as the Interior Minister reported.

Tens Of Thousands Rally In Europe, Asia Before UN Climate Summit

December 2, 2019 Isabelle Le Page and Andrew Beatty, Thejakartapost.com Resist! Class Struggle, Climate Change, Protests, United Nations

Tens of thousands of protesters, primarily in Europe and Asia, hit the streets on Friday to make a fresh call for action against global warming, hoping to raise pressure on world leaders days before a UN climate summit. Carrying signs that read "One planet, one fight" and "The sea is rising, so must we", thousands flocked to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for the latest "Fridays for Future" protest inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg. In total, about 630,000 people demonstrated across more than 500 cities in Germany, the Fridays for Future movement said.

The Grand Illusion: Corporate Government And Corporations Will Save Us From The Climate Crisis

December 1, 2019 By Carl Boggs, Counterpunch Educate! Climate Change, climate crisis

As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent “greening” of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing. Carbon footprints will be drastically reduced thanks to a combination of market stratagems and technological magic. While greenhouse mitigation seamlessly advances, the ruling forces can return to what they do best – indulge their religion of endless accumulation and growth.

Earth Nears Irreversible Tipping Points

November 30, 2019 Tim Radford, Climatenewsnetwork.net Educate! Climate Change, Environment

LONDON, 28 November, 2019 – On the eve of a global climate summit in Madrid, seven distinguished climate scientists have issued an urgent warning of approaching planetary tipping points: within a few years, they say, humankind could enter a state of potentially catastrophic climate change on a new “hothouse” Earth. They warn that dramatic changes to planetary stability may already be happening in nine vulnerable ecosystems. As these changes happen, they could reinforce each other and at the same time amplify planetary temperature rise...

The View Of A Participant In The Harvard-Yale Football Game Climate Disruption

November 28, 2019 Melinda Tuhus, The CT Mirror Resist! Climate Change

After we sat down in mid-field and prevented the second half of the game from starting, hundreds more students (and perhaps some non-students) flooded onto the field to join us. It was a beautiful sight. We chanted ‘til we were hoarse: “What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! If we don’t get it, shut it down!” The game announcer pleaded, “Out of courtesy to the players and the fans, please leave the field. The game must go on.” The absurdity of prioritizing a football game over the survival of life on earth as we know it was not lost on us. I wonder how many people in the stands noticed.

Hunger Strikers Miss Thanksgiving While Climate Polluters And Corrupt Politicians Feast

November 27, 2019 Nick Brana, Extinction Rebellion Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Hunger Strike, Thanksgiving

The global hunger strike has worked in many parts of the world. Sweden’s Minister of the Environment agreed to meet with Swedish hunger strikers. In the UK, politicians from a range of parties including the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats met with hunger strikers on camera. In the Netherlands, hunger strikers sat down with officials from the municipality of Wageningen for a recorded meeting to push for tougher action on the climate and ecological crisis. The city of Miami, Florida agreed to one of Extinction Rebellion’s key demands last week when it declared a climate emergency following a three-day hunger strike by an XR climate rebel.

Court Decision Against BLM For Ignoring Climate Impact Results In Suspended Oil & Gas Leases

November 21, 2019 By Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Fossil Fuels

The Trump administration's relentless push to expand fossil fuel production on federal lands is hitting a new snag: its own refusal to consider the climate impacts of development. The federal Bureau of Land Management's Utah office in September voluntarily suspended 130 oil and gas leases after advocacy groups sued, arguing that BLM hadn't adequately assessed the greenhouse gas emissions associated with drilling and extraction on those leases as required by law.

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