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Author And Climate Warrior Offers Thoughts On Struggle Ahead

November 18, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org ,
By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Like many environmentalists grappling with the implications of a Donald Trump presidency, Terry Tempest Williams said she is in "mourning." But on Thursday, as she and her husband, Brooke Williams, re-asserted their right to preserve federal land won at auction, the acclaimed author and conservationist offered this message of encouragement for the future: "Resistance is our courage."

We Can No Longer Hope To Win This By Simply Voting Or Speaking Out

November 16, 2016 Emily Johnston, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Emily Johnston for Common Dreams - Annette and I have been charged with felony property damage and aiding and abetting felony property damage, as well as trespass and aiding and abetting trespass. Along with our friends engaging in the same acts in other states, we took every precaution to ensure the safety of our actions, including two safety calls to Enbridge, and in fact—as a result of these calls—it was the company which actually shut the pipelines down.

Climate Change Action ‘Unstoppable’ Despite Trump: U.N.’s Ban

November 15, 2016 Alister Doyle and Nina Chestney, www.reuters.com , ,
By Alister Doyle and Nina Chestney for Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday action on climate change has become "unstoppable" and predicted that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump would drop plans to quit a global accord aimed at weaning the world off fossil fuels. At a meeting of almost 200 nations in Morocco to work out ways to implement the 2015 Paris agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, Ban said U.S. companies, states and cities were all pushing to limit global warming.

Constitutional Climate Lawsuit Against U.S. To Proceed

November 14, 2016 Julia Olson and Philip Gregory, www.static1.squarespace.com , ,
By Julia Olson and Philip Gregory for Our Children's Trust and Earth Guardian - Eugene, OR – Today, the federal court in Eugene, Oregon decided in favor of 21 youth plaintiffs in their “groundbreaking” constitutional climate lawsuit against President Obama, numerous federal agencies, and the fossil fuel industry. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken completely rejected all arguments to dismiss raised by the federal government and fossil fuel industry, determining that the young plaintiffs’ constitutional and public trust claims could proceed.

Newsletter: Time For Boldness, Clarity & Assertiveness

November 11, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. In this moment, the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice needs be bold, clear and assertive in putting forth an agenda that will serve the economically dispossessed, those under attack by militarized police, immigrants facing detentions and deportations and demonstrate policies that ensure economic security. Where Trump is right, as in detente with Russia, the movement will support him against the neocons and humanitarian war supporters; and we will push him further for an end to war as the primary tool of foreign policy. Both parties are confronting major fissures, leadership challenges and questions about where they go from here. Their confused leadership provides an opportunity for the popular movement to fill the leadership void with policies that put people, planet and peace over profit.

New Report: “Trade In Balance: Reconciling Trade & Climate Policy”

November 10, 2016 Staff, www.bu.edu ,
By Staff of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future - The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) are pleased to announce the publication of a new report, “Trade in the Balance: Reconciling Trade and Climate Policy.” The report is the outcome of the Working Group on Trade, Investment, and Climate Policy convened by Boston University’s GEGI and Georgetown University Law Center’s Harrison Institute for Public Law in April 2016, a group of trade policy experts and climate policy experts from China, North America, and Europe.

The Road Ahead In Saving The Climate

November 10, 2016 Hunter Cutting, www.nexusmedianews.com
By Hunter Cutting for Nexus Media - The result of the U.S. national elections and the follow-on impact in the fight against climate change is extremely clear and unambiguous. The U.S. federal government has effectively tapped out of the climate fight for at least four years. While it is unlikely that a Trump-led Republican regime will be able to roll back the progress made to date, we can be sure the regime will block any work through Congress and the administration.

Our Poisonous Economic System Needs A Grassroots Intervention

November 4, 2016 Taj James, www.theleapblog.org
By Taj James for The Leap - Last month, nearly two hundred nations signed on to a legally-binding global climate deal seeking to phase out the greenhouse gases known as HFCs. And this Friday, the non-binding Paris Agreement will officially enter into force for seventy-six nations, which have made voluntary pledges to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius and if possible, below 1.5°C. These agreements are important, but they are not enough to save us. That is because admitting a problem is only the first step. To move forward, we must also properly diagnose and get to the root of the problem.

In Peru, This Young Activist Is Sparking A Movement For Climate Justice

October 28, 2016 Sabrina Imbler, www.grist.org , ,
By Sabrina Imbler for Grist - Majandra Rodriguez Acha was 19 when her country erupted in protests over Amazonian oil. The year was 2009, and Peru’s president had just opened the jungle to oil development, ensuring the displacement of thousands of indigenous people. Enraged by the violent clashes she saw on television, Acha attended a protest on her own. The police released tear gas on Acha and the other protesters as they shouted “La selva no se vende, la selva se defiende.” In other words: You don’t sell the jungles, you defend them.

How One Artist Put Climate Activism On Paper

October 26, 2016 Emma Foehringer Merchant, www.grist.org ,
By Emma Foehringer Merchant for The Grist - In 2011, artist Rachel Schragis found herself in Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Initially, she was struck by the protesters’ spirit of collaboration. But she was also captivated by the art spilling out of every corner of the park: a puppet of Lady Liberty; the sign-making station with its constant flow of well-cut cardboard, markers, and paint; and the work of illustrators like Nina Montenegro, whose print of a police officer brandishing a night-stick at a dandelion became an emblematic image.

“We’ve Never Seen Government Stand Up To Fossil Fuel Industry”

October 25, 2016 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Dahr Jamail for Truth Out - In 2008, Tim DeChristopher found himself bidding for parcels of public land around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks of Utah at an illegitimate Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction. A climate activist acting as a bidder at the auction, DeChristopher ended up successfully winning 22,500 acres of land by bidding a total of $1.8 million, which he never intended to pay one nickel of, hence effectively killing the auction.

Climate Change Kept Out Of Presidential Debates

October 25, 2016 Peter Dykstra, www.environmentalhealthnews.org ,
By Peter Dykstra for Environmental Health News - On Wednesday evening during the final presidential debate of the campaign, Hell did not freeze over. Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News, where climate denial plays nothing but home games, passed on the final opportunity to ask Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about climate change. This presidential campaign has been a catastrophe for American democracy and for American political journalism.

Agroforestry Can Boost Profits And Help Save The Planet

October 17, 2016 Paul Brown, www.truthdig.com ,
By Paul Brown for Climate News Network - LONDON—Feeding the world’s growing population in a rapidly warming world will not be possible with modern intensive agriculture that relies on cutting down more forests to plant crops, according to new research. The only way to produce enough crops and mitigate climate change at the same time is to adopt what the researchers have called agroforestry, a system of growing crops alongside trees and shrubs.

Leading Fossil Fuel Companies Fail Climate Responsibility Test

October 14, 2016 John H. Cushman Jr., www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By John H. Cushman Jr. for Inside Climate News - A methodical review of the world's dominant fossil fuel producers has documented their poor performance—in some cases, egregious failure— in taking responsibility for their emissions of greenhouse gases and moving effectively to confront climate change. "None of them has made a clean break from disinformation on climate science and policy," said a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, published by four of its senior climate experts last week.

The Time For Direct Action On Climate Change Is Now

October 12, 2016 Emily Johnston, www.truth-out.org ,
By Emily Johnston for Truthout - Our warming world is by far the most dire emergency humanity has ever faced, and thanks to the inaction induced by decades of corporate lies, our political and social systems are radically failing us. There is currently no policy under consideration anywhere that will keep us below a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius (we're almost there), which might avoid the worst impacts and tipping points of climate change.
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