The climate crisis is racist. The answer is anti-racism
The climate crisis is racist. The answer is anti-racism
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Climate change and racism are symptoms of the same unequal systems.
“A culturally important archaeological site in Western Australia was destroyed this past weekend during the expansion of an iron ore mine. Upsettingly, the mining company responsible for the incident did so with state permission, exposing Australia’s weak and bigoted heritage conservation laws.”
Mining Company Blows Up 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site, Expresses No Regrets
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A culturally important archaeological site in Western Australia was destroyed this past weekend during the expansion of an iron ore mine. Upsettingly, the mining company responsible for the incident d...Corporations all need to be dismantled. All of them if we are to survive.
“... while DeWine has been willing to buck party politics and uphold scientific evidence on coronavirus, his performance on other health-related issues — namely, climate change and the environment — has been less consistent. Green groups have applauded him for his efforts to curb Lake Erie’s toxic algal blooms, which contaminate drinking water and harm human health. But they have derided him for signing a sweeping rollback of Ohio’s clean energy policies, a measure critics called the “worst” anti-renewables law to pass in any state.
Some environmentalists told Grist they’re cautiously optimistic that DeWine’s science-driven response to the outbreak will influence future decisions on climate policy — particularly given that Ohio’s warming summers, intensifying rainfall, and enduring air pollution threaten the health of adults and children. Other activists, like Addy Zenko, said they’re skeptical that lessons from coronavirus will carry over — or that the current governor would come to mirror his Republican predecessor, John Kasich, who has lately called for policies to address climate change.”
The Ohio Governor Listened to the Science on COVID-19, But Not on Climate. Why?
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Advocates are hoping Republican Gov. Mike DeWine will see that climate change is a public health issue too
“On Tuesday, a federal court breathed new life into a lawsuit by Californian cities against Big Oil.
The powerful Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which has jurisdiction over almost the entire American West, Alaska, and Hawaii, found that the lawsuit brought by San Francisco and Oakland had been incorrectly moved from state to federal court before it was dismissed back in 2018.
The cities claimed that ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and other fossil fuel companies knew about climate change for decades and sued the oil giants for financial support to create an “abatement fund” that would help pay for sea walls and other infrastructure projects.”
A landmark lawsuit against Big Oil is back from the dead
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Will ExxonMobil, Shell, and friends have to pay for seawalls?Those of us who have retirement funds or pension plans may be inadvertently financing deforestation in Papua New Guinea and around the world.
Who’s financing deforestation in Papua New Guinea? A new report follows the money.
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BlackRock, The Vanguard Group, T. Rowe Price Associates, and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System were all tied to a controversial timber venture.We want to thank the Commons for featuring our recent action and related letter in their print and digital editions.
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BRATTLEBORO—On May 21 and 23, members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Vermont and allies stood along Main Street and Putney Road to create awareness that the COVID-19 crisis has presented us with the o...This puts some of the “we are all in it together” rhetoric in perspective- are we really all in it together when some humans can afford to buy a house sight unseen? This is a taste of what we can expect with the climate crisis, as the wealthy move from southern, coastal areas to areas with less heat, fewer hurricanes, and no seas to rise. Those who have done the most to exacerbate this crisis now seek to escape the consequences. What do we do except demand that we all take climate action now, together, with social and racial justice in the forefront?
Realtors say out-of-staters buying up Vermont homes online
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'We’ve had places that were on the market a year or longer and suddenly we have 25 people looking at them,' says one real estate agent.This is almost pathetically ingrained in many areas. Years ago I was at one of the very first Sustainable Woodstock meetings where the group decided it was a priority to attract "well-educated," enterprising people who would build tourism by establishing new businesses etc. I pointed out that what we might really want was to attract a diversity of people since the "well educated" probably wouldn't want to do the grunt work at those businesses. Pause.... "oh, of course, right" 🙄
This has seriously impacted me.
In Vermont, you can’t show a house to anyone who hasn’t quarantined in the state for 2 weeks. So people are doing it this way.
Not one person living the the US is moving to another state because of the brainwashed liberals ridiculous claims on climate change. Talk about clueless group leaders. SMFH
“Ten corporations that agreed to a total of $56m in civil penalties for allegedly breaking environmental laws are not being required to make payments under a pause granted by the US government during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The companies polluted air and water, including in communities already vulnerable to toxic pollution like East Chicago, Indiana, according to legal proceedings.
They signed settlements with the government agreeing to pay fines without admitting liability but the justice department last month advised most of the companies of extensions in letters which were obtained by the government watchdog group Accountable.US via public records requests.”
US lets corporations delay paying environmental fines amid pandemic
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Ten companies that allegedly polluted air and water will not be required to pay penalties they agreed to before 1 JuneHmm... this sounds all too familiar.
Brazil minister advises using COVID-19 to distract from Amazon deregulation
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Global outrage at Environment Minister Ricardo Salles caught on video saying“What a year to start a farm. From floods to wildfires, power outages and evacuations to the awful here and now—the ongoing calamity of a deadly pandemic that has smacked down the world, upending everything.
Not to mention that the lush landscape of ranches and farms where Chang-Fleeman is growing is officially parched. Northern California is in a code orange, the U.S. Drought Monitor's color for "severe."
No one could have predicted the coronavirus, of course, which wiped out two-thirds of Chang-Fleeman's business when Bay Area restaurants shut down. But weather extremes? Another matter. Chang-Fleeman spent his boyhood in Los Angeles living with droughts and heat waves and water rationing. Climate woes informed his life. He decided to devote himself to agriculture, he said, not despite the challenges of a convulsing planet, but because of them.
"I knew," he said, "I would be farming for climate change."
A Young Farmer Confronts Climate Change—and a Pandemic
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Scott Chang-Fleeman became a farmer to take on the challenge of global warming. Now he’s doing it while battling the economic devastation of the coronavirus.“...researchers examined monitoring data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, which biologists started in the 1960s in response to changes in bird populations. It has since been populated with massive amounts of citizen scientists’ data. By plugging that data into a species distribution model, the scientists examined how the breeding patterns of 32 eastern North American bird species shifted from 1972 to 2014. They found that over that 43 year period, different kinds of bird species’ ranges of migration have changed in different ways, with particularly bad news for birds that migrate from the tropics.”
Migratory Birds Are Failing to Adapt to Climate Change
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New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday shows that the climate crisis may be seriously messing with North American birds’ migration patterns, and the...“... the four-day work week would also set us on a pathway to a safer climate. A white paper published in 2006 made the case clearly: If the U.S. adopted European work hours, American carbon emissions in 2000 would have been 7 percent below its actual 1990 levels. That would have been enough for the U.S. to meet the targets set forth in the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 climate treaty the country failed to ratify.
Working longer hours means heating and cooling offices, more electricity use, and more energy spent commuting. In places without public transit, that means more local air pollution as well. Reducing commuting could be a huge benefit in the U.S. in particular, where transportation accounts for the biggest chunk of carbon pollution. Prior to the pandemic, there was a relatively small portion of telecommuters in the U.S. Yet these 3.9 million people working from home reduced emissions as much as taking 600,000 cars off the road each year. The impact of more work-from-homers due to the pandemic is likely to have an even bigger impact.”
The Climate Case for the Four-Day Work Week
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Jacinda Ardern has won a lot of rightful praise for New Zealand’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation has stood as an outlier with cases that have stayed low, and the country is beginni...
On this Memorial Day, as we mourn the needless loss of thousands of fellow humans in days past and future, we acknowledge that these losses are rooted in the diseases of domination, greed, violence, militarism, discrimination, and war. Let us today make a commitment to support egalitarian, regenerative, and sustainable solutions for generations to come.
On this Memorial Day, as we mourn the needless loss of thousands of fellow humans in days past and future, we acknowledge that these losses are rooted in the diseases of domination, greed, violence, militarism, discrimination, and war. Let us today make a commitment to support egalitarian, regenerative, and sustainable solutions for generations to come.
Join us in solidarity!
We are calling upon Vermont lawmakers to:
Create a Coronavirus Relief Fund to issue payments to all immigrant families excluded from federal relief due to immigration status
Relief payments should be the same as federal stimulus payments: $1,200 per adult and $500 per child
Work with Migrant Justice and affected communities to develop and implement the fund
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Call your legislator: Vermont Coronavirus Relief Fund for immigrant families
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"Today they call us essential, but what happens when this ends? Do we go back to being invisible? Or will we be seen as human beings?" -Angel, Vermont dairy worker Last month, the federal government b...Timeline Photos
Why is someone locked in a box in 'the way forward' Kinda an oxymoron
No. Watch Planet Of The Humans. Start using less. Not building more but using what we got more efficiently
People of Colour Experience Climate Grief More Deeply Than White People
People of Colour Experience Climate Grief More Deeply Than White People
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We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, but we carry a pain that comes from a long history of racial terror.
Planet of the Humans : Let's just have a think...
This is a great critique, a clear rebuttal actually of the many distortions in this film. Can't understand why Michael Moore is promoting it - he obviously hasn't vetted it carefully.
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After everything that’s happened, does anyone still think petitions are going to change anything? If you’re not already fired up to get out of your comfort zone, now’s the time to light that fire.
Last Saturday, Extinction Rebellion Vermont and allies, using extreme social distancing techniques, planted 39 chestnut trees in honor of nonviolent warrior Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated the same day in 1968 at the age of 39.
The trees were planted on property where working class families once lived before the City of Burlington razed their homes to expand BTV airport and pave the way for the appalling F-35 war aircraft. Vermont's contingent of F-35s burns thousands of gallons of toxic fuel in mere moments and is contributing to the ill health of neighboring communities due to their freakishly loud engine noise.
Burlington has turned a working class neighborhood into a wasteland. The ghostly footprints of former homes remain, waiting for a purpose and reminding us of the disdain that the forces of destruction have for life. These forces are not resting during this pandemic, and neither can we.
The city has said it has a landscape plan for the area, but we all know that "plan" likely consists of occasional mowing. Extinction Rebellion's planting of these 39 "MLK Trees" will help the city with their landscaping, provide healing to these maltreated residential lots, and begin the process of recapturing a fraction of the carbon burned by the military's death machines next door.
We invite the City of Burlington to use these trees as a catalyst for a full reforestation of this besieged territory.
What do you think capitalists will say when climate change becomes too severe to ignore? We need a revolution so we don’t have to find out.
Solidarity with all frontline workers! Workers who continue to keep our society running during this crisis need big raises, and they need additional protections in place, immediately.
www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/perdue-employees-walk-out-as-coronavirus-concerns-grow/93-7c7bd...
'This is not a game': Perdue plant employees walk out over COVID-19 concerns
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Almost 50 employees walked out Monday morning say some workers on the production line were in contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19In a slow moving crisis like climate change, those in power can lie and manipulate the truth in order to avoid systemic change. In a fast moving crisis where the consequences are clear, they are forced to defend their actual position: the economy is more important than people’s health and well being. We must end the destructive system that will prioritize profits over the lives of our most vulnerable and we must recognize that it will also prioritize profits over the long term habitability of our planet.
Here it is, right on schedule... www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1167341
Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change
Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change
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When the COVID-19 pandemic is past, societies may adopt some important measures that would lower emissions, from more teleconferencing to shortening global supply chains. But the most lasting lesson m...soil is usSOIL IS US
We owe our existence to soil. In a sense, we are animate consciously-aware expressions of the life generated by soil. Without soil there would be no terrestrial life forms on earth.
Four-hundred-and-seventy million years ago fungi cytoplasts united with bacteria and algae to become lichen and launched their mutualistic partnership upon a vast single continent of rock. They know longer waited for weatherization to wash nutrients to the sea. They colonized the rock and became the primogenitors of pedogenesis. The Permian forests grew from the soil lichen first built---laying down the coal oil and shale we burn today. Back then the CO2 in the atmosphere was 7000-8000 ppm. Deep soils teeming with life drew CO2 down to as low as 100ppm. Soil gave rise to hydrologic systems. Established the balanced climate in which our species evolved. Yet, to judge by our actions, soil is the most under-valued and abused of all the natural resources at our disposal. The last 30 years have seen an explosion in exciting new panoramas of research into the complex mutualism between plants and the soil biome. We now know that through photosynthesis plant roots deliver a 3rd or more of the sugars plants produce to the soil microorganisms. This liquid carbon drives the vast food web of our biosphere. The soil carbon sponge is designed to be the repository of excess carbon. It is the living library out of which all our dreams of existence are spun. We have come to understand that fungi are a keystone species in this hidden world. And that the conventional agriculture we have developed over the last 60 years has reduced that soil fungal population by 90%. We have degenerated degraded and desertified ½ of the terrestrial planet that is not covered with ice. If we restore this land just think of how much carbon we could draw down.
Living the good life starts here.....
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Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Insanity.
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Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.The state of our oceans
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World Meteorological Office report just released confirms warmer, more acidic oceans and continuing sea-level rise.Come out and do something "dramatic" with us!
We strive to not only create a just future for future generations, but to build a joyous, reflective, and accessible movement along the way. Taking action and building strong community relationships are some of the best antidotes to despair!
‘There is one important takeaway from the coronavirus as it relates to climate, though. Sophia Geiger, a 17-year old climate activist from Washington, DC, tweeted this week: “Imagine if the media reported on the climate crisis like it does on the coronavirus. Headline news every day, constantly releasing an updated death toll, analysing whether world leaders are doing enough, most importantly, making public believe this is something to take seriously.”’
Why don’t we treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as coronavirus? | Owen Jones
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No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic, says Guardian columnist Owen JonesSpace images show drastic drop in China pollution as coronavirus shuts factories‘This is the first time I have seen such a dramatic drop-off over such a wide area for a specific event,’ says Nasa scientist
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Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe
Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe
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Evidence shows a link between the presence of resource extraction workers who live in temporary 'man camps' and violence against Indigenous women and girls.Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
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The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.Photos taken 9 days apart from each other. Pressure must be kept on the globe’s largest polluters— fossil fuel companies and the defense industrial complex.
'Antarctica Melts,' NASA Says, Showing Effects Of A Record Warm Spell
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Taken just nine days apart, two images illustrate the impact a recent warm period had on the Antarctic Peninsula. NASA says such warmth "has become more common in recent years."Longest Railway Shutdown in Canadian History Entering it's 8th day | Real People's Media
Longest Railway Shutdown in Canadian History Entering it's 8th day | Real People's Media
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Tyendinaga Mohawks Seek Peaceful Resolution TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police invaded Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia on February 5th, 2020 to enforce a ...Not all heroes wear capes
Boring photo—but exciting evening. Montpelier City Council votes unanimously to declare climate emergency!
RCMP arrest Unist'ot'en matriarchs during ceremony to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
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There are five Wet'suwet'en clans and 13 house groups. The Unist'ot'en (Dark House) is one of three houses within the Gilseyhu (Bull Frog) clan.In Memoriam: 28 Indigenous Rights Defenders Murdered in Latin America in 2019
In Memoriam: 28 Indigenous Rights Defenders Murdered in Latin America in 2019
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