Climate Change

Hunger Strike Continues In Pelosi’s Office By Extinction Rebellion

November 20, 2019 Extinction Rebellion, Popular Resistance Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Hunger Strike, Nancy Pelosi

Hunger strikers with Extinction Rebellion will occupy Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office for the third day in a row today (November 20) as part of a Global Hunger Strike taking place in 27 countries on six continents. The hunger strikers are demanding the speaker meet with them on-camera for one hour to discuss the climate and ecological emergency that threatens the collapse of civilization. If Pelosi is supportive of climate action, why won’t she meet them? Is Pelosi too busy for the increasingly starving youth in her office?

How To Save The Planet And Ourselves

November 19, 2019 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Reform

If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse.” Hallam’s lucid and concise book, which echoes Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” says what many of us now know to be true but do not say: If we do not replace the ruling elites soon we are finished as a species. It is a cogent, well-argued case for global rebellion—the only form of resistance that can save us from ecosystem collapse and human-induced genocide.

The Just Transition, Economic Democracy, And The Green New Deal

November 18, 2019 By Evan Casper-Futterman and Jason Spicer, Metropolitiques.eu Create! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Reform

Earlier this year, US Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Congressional resolution for a Green New Deal (GND), an idea since supported by a number of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. The resolution calls for “transparent and inclusive consultation, collaboration, and partnership with frontline and vulnerable communities, labor unions, worker cooperatives, civil-society groups, academia, and businesses.” To some, the reference to worker cooperatives might seem accidental or even strange—how are they central to solving the climate crisis?

Extinction Rebellion Members Blockade Private Jet Terminal Used By Wealthy Elites In Geneva

November 18, 2019 By Jon Queally, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

"We want to denounce this completely absurd means of transport since a private jet emits twenty times more CO2 per passenger than a conventional airplane." Targeting ultra-wealthy passengers and owners of private jets, campaigners with Extinction Rebellion in Geneva on Saturday shut down a terminal that caters to luxury jets at the main airport in Geneva, Switzerland. "We want to denounce this completely absurd means of transport since a private jet emits twenty times more CO2 per passenger than a conventional airplane," Micaël Metry, an Extinction Rebellion spokesperson, said in a statement.

Under Cap & Trade California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase

November 18, 2019 By Lisa Song, Propublica.org Educate! California, Climate Change, emissions, greenhouse gases, Oil, pollution

Gov. Jerry Brown took the podium at a July 2017 press conference to lingering applause after a steady stream of politicians praised him for helping to extend California’s signature climate policy for another decade. Brown, flanked by the U.S. and California flags, with a backdrop of the gleaming San Francisco Bay, credited the hard work of the VIPs seated in the crowd. “It’s people in industry, and they’re here!” he said. “Shall we mention them? People representing oil, agriculture, business, Chamber of Commerce, food processing. … Plus, we have environmentalists. ...”

How The Fossil Fuel Industry Undermined Climate Science

November 14, 2019 Naomi Oreske, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Climate Science, Fossil Fuels, Science

Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the “big problems” of the world “on whose solution the entire future of the human race depends.” Fast-forward nearly 30 years and, in 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), promising “concrete action to protect the planet.”

Cuba’s Urban Farming Shows Way To Avoid Hunger

November 14, 2019 Paul Brown, Climatenewsnetwork.net Create! Climate Change, Cuba, Food and Agriculture, Urban Farming

LONDON, 11 November, 2019 − When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports. And what worked then for Cuba could have lessons today for the wider world, as it faces growing hunger in the face of the climate crisis. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, most of Cuba’s food supplies went with it.

Jane Fonda Leads Climate Protests At US Capitol For Fifth Week In A Row

November 14, 2019 By Ruth Milka, Nationofchange.org Resist! Climate Change, Protests, Reform

Jane Fonda was joined by hundreds of others in Washington D.C. for her fifth “Fire Drill Friday’ to urge the need for climate activism. Leading the charge out from the U.S. Capitol, Fonda urged adults to join in the fight for climate action. “We cannot leave it to young people to fight this fight for their future by themselves,” Fonda said. This is the fifth consecutive week that Fonda has participated in climate change protest in Washington. Although the Academy Award winner pledged to get arrested 14 consecutive Fridays in a row, and did her best to block an entrance to the White House grounds, she evaded arrest this week.

US Policy: Global Climate Crisis Not Our Problem. Really?

November 12, 2019 William Boardman, Reader Supported News Educate! Climate Change, Diplomacy, United States

By withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, the US is effectively saying the global climate crisis is not our problem. This is American exceptionalism run amok. The US acts as if it can opt-out of the only planet we have because, well, because we’re special. This is not logical, this is not practical, this is not moral, and this is not possible. This is delusional. This is a crime against humanity. And yet the House Democrats remain obsessed with the low-level intrigues of Ukraine, Trumps, Bidens, and other clowns while turning away from the growing global catastrophe.

Did Exxon Mislead Investors About Climate-Related Risks? It’s Now Up To A Judge To Decide.

November 12, 2019 By Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, ExxonMobil, Fraud

Lawyers for New York State and ExxonMobil wrapped up a landmark climate fraud trial on Thursday, shaping a tangle of testimony and evidence into competing narratives on whether the oil company misled investors about the risks it faces from climate regulation. Jonathan Zweig, who gave the closing arguments for the New York attorney general's office, described the case as a classic securities fraud trial that happened to be about climate change, which he said "may well be the defining risk for oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil in the coming decades."

The First Step To Averting Climate Catastrophe

November 11, 2019 By Jodie Evans, Truthdig.com Educate! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Pentagon, Reform, Social Movements, US military

Here we are, a full three decades after NASA scientist James Hansen raised the specter of a looming climate crisis with Congress, looking at the first generation of severely impacted youth and telling them they’re right: We have completely squandered their future. For too long, our dominant culture has practiced unsustainable growth and consumption, ushering in the end of a habitable planet and with it civilization as we know it. Those most impacted are the communities who have contributed the least to climate change, a direct extension of the settler colonization project that has unfolded across the globe over hundreds of years.

Love And Rage In Extinction Rebellion

November 11, 2019 By Greg Frey, Opendemocracy.net Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

It took less than three hours for the police to cut the bike lock from around my neck and drag me away from the only structure left standing on Westminster Bridge - the base of a 16-meter lighthouse made entirely of bamboo that I and other XR protestors were trying to put up on the 7th of October 2019. It was to be both a warning light and a guide. After weeks of building, I was more than just physically attached. When the police released me at 5am the next morning, I learnt that they had cleared us from the rest of the bridge just a few hours earlier.

Intersectional Strategies For Rebellion

November 11, 2019 Payal Parekh and Asad Rehman, Theecologist.org Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

Extinction Rebellion (XR) has achieved an amazing feat. Its multiple and large-scale actions have pushed the climate crisis to the fore and pressured decision makers to take drastic action to work to secure a better future for all species. XR has been able to motivate ordinary people to participate in peaceful civil disobedience and to break from business as usual by building on the work of past social and environmental movements, as well as the renewed urgency created by the release of the 1.5 IPCC report approximately one year ago.

We Must Dismantle The War Machine To Avoid The Climate Catastrophe

November 10, 2019 Jodie Evans, The Independent Media Institute Resist! Climate Change, Climate Justice, Divestment, Wars and Militarism

There is a clear thread running from the Pentagon budget to weapons corporations to our impoverished communities to migrants fleeing wars and drought to greenhouse gas emissions driving the climate crisis. Imagine a snake consuming its own body: that is the war machine’s connection to climate breakdown. We must begin rapidly removing our public dollars from the war machine if we are to save humanity and the planet—which, like the climate crisis and the war machine, cannot be separated.

Dammed Good Question About The Green New Deal

November 8, 2019 Don Fitz, Greensocialthought.org Educate! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Reform

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. An August 2019 forum on the GND included representatives from the Sunrise Movement, Renew Missouri and three of us in the Green Party. Rev. Elston McCowan asked, “What does the Green New Deal say about rivers and dams?” I said “That’s a dammed good question” and went into some of the issues below.

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