Climate Change

Racism Is Magnifying The Deadly Impact Of Rising City Heat

July 31, 2021 Alexandra Witze, Nature. Create! Climate Change, Environment, Housing, Racism

To help reduce the risk of heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses, urban planners, meteorologists, climate experts and other scientists are working to identify the most vulnerable neighbourhoods. Underlying such efforts is a growing awareness of how extreme heat takes a disproportionate toll on people of colour and those in lower-income communities. Racist urban policies, particularly in the United States, have left communities of colour at higher risk of heat-related illness or death than their white neighbours.

Protesters Urge Boris Johnson To Take Climate Talks Seriously

July 23, 2021 Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Resist! Boris Johnson, Climate Change, Protests

Protesters will fill London’s Parliament Square on Friday morning, calling on the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to make the climate crisis his top priority, as the UK prepares to host UN talks that will determine whether the world tips into environmental catastrophe this decade. Giant alarm clocks will show time running out, while 100 protesters chant that Johnson and his chancellor, Rishi Sunak, are “missing in action” on the climate crisis.

Global Alliance For A Green New Deal

July 23, 2021 Pascale Hunt, 350.org. Organize! Climate Change, Green New Deal

As the impacts of climate change and Covid-19 compound, politicians from around the world on Monday July 19th launched the new Global Alliance for a Green New Deal (GGND). Founded by Rep. Ilhan Omar of the United States, Dep. Joenia Wapichana of Brazil, and Manon Aubry of France among others, the Alliance aims to advance global momentum for collaborative and transformational social, economic and environmental policy.

Inside Exxon’s Playbook

July 5, 2021 Lawrence Carter, Unearthed Educate! Climate Change, Environment, ExxonMobil

Keith McCoy, a senior director of federal relations at Exxon, told a reporter for Unearthed posing as a head-hunter that that the company had conducted a fingerprints-off lobbying push via several trade groups in an effort to stave off tighter regulations on these controversial chemicals.

Indigenous Organizers Defend Menominee River

June 15, 2021 Carol Amour, In These Times. Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Water Protectors

The Menominee River forms Wisconsin’s Northeastern border with Michigan, winding for about 120 miles and opening into Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. About thirty-five miles from the mouth of the river sits the proposed location of the Back Forty Mine, a project by the Canadian mining company, Aquila Resources. The open pit mine that the company intends to dig out of land a mere 150 feet from the Menominee River in Michigan would be deeper than the height of the tallest building in Wisconsin, at 750 feet. The proposed mine will extract gold and sulfide from the banks of the river. Opponents of the mining project warn that sulfide wastes will pollute the Menominee River, which provides the spawning grounds for one of the largest populations of lake sturgeon in the Lake Michigan basin.

Who’s Paying The Human Costs Of Plastic Pollution?

June 8, 2021 Yvette Arellano and Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes, Prism. Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Environmental racism, Plastics

All too often, the issue of plastic pollution is reduced to plastic straw bans led by clipboard-carrying college students, VSCO girls, and bracelets made with a promise of saving turtles. It conjures images of a wad of plastic grocery bags or perhaps a garbage island floating in the middle of the ocean somewhere. The problem is that plastic pollution isn’t just an issue of waste accumulation—plastics are also manufactured and often incinerated in communities where poor people and people of color are rarely consulted or alerted to the risks. Our communities are living this pollution every day and understand the connections between air, water, land, ocean, and human health in very personal and concrete ways.

Not Just Another Drought

June 7, 2021 Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights. Educate! Climate Change, Drought, Environment, Food and Agriculture

The American West is having a drought. So, what else is new? And, that's just the point. The American West has been in an extended drought since 2000, so far the second worst in the last 1200 years. Here is the key quote from the National Geographic article cited above: In the face of continued climate change, some scientists and others have suggested that using the word "drought" for what’s happening now might no longer be appropriate, because it implies that the water shortages may end. Instead, we might be seeing a fundamental, long-term shift in water availability all over the West. That is what climate scientists have been warning about all along. The problems we are now experiencing are not just cycles or fluctuations—although those continue to be important—but rather, permanent changes in the climate (that is, on any timeline that matters to humans).

We Hug The Trees Because The Trees Have No Voice

June 5, 2021 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environment, pollution

At the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the delegates decided to hold an annual World Environment Day. In 1974, the UN urged the world to celebrate that day on 5 June with the slogan ‘Only One Earth’; this year, the theme is ‘Ecosystem Restoration’, emphasising how the capitalist system has eroded the earth’s capacity to sustain life. The Global Footprint Network reports that we do not live on one Earth, but on 1.6 Earths. We live on more than one Earth because, by encroaching and destroying biodiversity, degrading land, and polluting the air and water, we are cannibalising the planet. This newsletter contains a Red Alert from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on the environmental catastrophe that befalls us. Several key scientists have contributed to it. It can be read below and downloaded as a PDF print out here; we hope that you will circulate it widely.

We’re Going To Have Fairy Creeks Happen All The Time

June 1, 2021 Sarah Cox, The Narwhal. Resist! British Columbia, Climate Change, Environment, Forests, Indigenous Rights

As tensions escalate and arrest tallies grow at logging blockades on Vancouver Island, The Narwhal spoke with one of the foresters tapped to help the province navigate its old-growth woes

There can be no biodiversity without human diversity

May 31, 2021 Fiore Longo, Equal Times Educate! Climate Change, Environment

The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human’ encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely different relationship with nature and do not, like Western societies, have this profound dissociation between human and nature. As the famous French anthropologist and student of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Philippe Descola, says: “the opposition between nature and culture is not universal”.

Activist Investors Score Surprise Win With ExxonMobil Board Seats

May 31, 2021 Kenny Stancil, Commondreams. Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, ExxonMobil

During Exxon's annual shareholder meeting, an activist hedge fund called Engine No. 1—which "owns only about 0.02%" of the oil company's stock, according to climate reporter Emily Atkin—ran four of its own director candidates in opposition to the fossil fuel corporation's hand-picked board members. At least two of Engine No. 1's candidates won, with the races for additional boardroom seats too close to call as of this writing.

New Report: Climate Harms To Health Are Widespread And Costly

May 21, 2021 Vijay Limaye, NRDC. Educate! Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Health Care, pollution

A new report NRDC published with partner groups today spotlights the enormous, often overlooked, and inequitable health and economic costs of climate change and air pollution from burning fossil fuels on the United States. This report, produced by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, and NRDC focuses on the frequently ignored but profound public health problems and costs linked to the climate crisis.

Klamath Tribes Rally Amid Water Crisis

May 21, 2021 Alex Schwartz, Indian Country Today. Resist! Climate Change, Indigenous Activism, Indigenous Rights, Protests

A group of protesters gathered at Sugarman’s Corner in downtown Klamath Falls last Saturday, preparing to welcome a 25-car caravan of mostly Klamath Tribal members calling for solutions to the Klamath Basin’s water crisis.

California Identifies 600 Communities At Risk Of Water-System Failures

May 18, 2021 Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Educate! California, Climate Change, Environment, Water

A familiar scene has returned to California: drought. Two counties are currently under emergency declarations, and the rest of the state could follow.

Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement

July 19, 2020 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. Newsletter Barack Obama, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, Howie Hawkins, Joe Biden, Pipelines

While the climate justice movement has been winning important victories, stopping and slowing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and putting the future of fossil fuels in doubt, the political system, long connected to the fossil fuel industry, is still fighting the urgently needed transition to clean sustainable energy. Both President Trump and former Vice President Biden put forward energy plans that do not challenge fossil fuels. The only candidate with a serious climate plan is Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins. The movement needs to build momentum from these successes for more actions to stop fossil fuel infrastructure.

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