UN ‘survival guide’ report is a stark warning on climate
"What's lacking at this point is a strong political will to resolve this issues once and for all." "HUMANITY ON THIN ICE"
‘You Couldn’t Make It Up’: Head of UAE Oil Company Appointed Chair of UN Climate Summit, by Julia Conley
If al-Jaber remains as the head of ADNOC and leads the conference, said Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, "it will be tantamount to a full-scale capture of the U.N. climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists."
Clean Energy or New Weapons: What the Fusion Breakthrough Really Means, by M.V. Ramana
As the history of nuclear fusion since the 1950s shows, this complicated technology is not going to produce cheap and reliable electricity to light bulbs or power computers anytime in the foreseeable future.
Paying for an Overheating Earth: Whose Planet Are We On? by Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox
What’s needed, says Oxfam, an organization focused on alleviating global poverty, is “a fair and automatic mechanism for financial support — rooted in the principle that those who have contributed most to the climate crisis pay for the damage it causes in countries least responsible and hardest hit.”
COP 27 Report: Commentary and information, inside COP27 with actions to take
International efforts are underway to advance a global just transition away from fossil fuels, including a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, a Plastics Treaty and a Global Green New Deal. We hear from leading voices in this transition about the need to act with urgency and fairness.
Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us, by Sue Ann Martinson
Unfortunately, not much has changed since this article was origianlly published in the Women Against Military Madness Newsletter and on ScheerPost, except the climate crisis has worsened with extreme heat waves in southeast Asia and more climate dhange in the U.S. and worldwide while the fossil suel industry and the corporations drag their feet at does the Biden administration, dependent on their money.
5 things to know about the suspension of U.S.-China climate talks
. Will the United States and China still launch a climate working group? The short answer: Probably not.
How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision, by Sharon Lerner
“Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”
The Ecology of War
Ecological effects of war in Ukraine and war in general: The overweening and unconscionable plodding response of industry will take years! We have the tools with solar panels and wind energy, but the war and gas and oil industries with inexcusable help from Washington/Congress are blocking the swift action needed. Nor is nuclear power a solution.
The US Military is Driving Environmental Collapse Across the Planet, by Sam Carliner
In the United States, we’re constantly told that there’s no money to implement any comprehensive measures for fighting the climate crisis. Public transportation, green infrastructure, solar energy, etc. are deemed “too expensive.” The truth is that the money for such projects exists, but it’s going to the Pentagon.
War Industry Resisters Network: Week of Action! April 17th to 24th
Clearly, there are no winners in the terrible war in Ukraine — except one: U.S. and British military contractors who will carry their increased profits all the way to the bank. Big Campaign contributions. 700 lobbyists. Militaristic think tanks. Government advisory boards. Hiring 1700 former Pentagon officials and stacking the government with their own people. These military contractors have numerous ways to determine Pentagon budgets, shape our foreign policy, create war fever, and pick our friends and enemies.
Making the Connections: Militarism, Climate Chaos, and the Environment
Including: Effects of neoliberal capitalism, U.S. empire, and militarization: U.S. Military Bases worldwide, Climate Chaos and Colonization—U.S. occupation of/war with indigenous and sovereign lands, Fossil Fuels, Water Pollution, Nuclear War, Agent Orange and Burn Pits, Superfund Sites, and more.