Sunday, October 20, 2019

Ecology and Pollution related links 102019



A Fox new guest called Greta Thunberg “mentally ill”.

Federal judge halts massive logging project to protect Rainforest and Archipelago wolves

17 States Sue to Stop Trump Admin Attack on Endangered Species Act

Florida Just Got a Sneak Peek of Coming Attractions in the Climate Crisis: Those Chinese climate hoaxsters sure are working hard.

Friends of the Earth Action applauds Harris’ climate plan

Learning in nature: Washington becomes first in the country to license outdoor preschools

The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Climate change is poised to alter the face of global conflict.

Calm Before the Storm: How the American nuclear industry downplays the threat of climate-induced flooding

Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control: A democratically owned electric utility could fast-track the city’s transition to clean energy.

The Green New Deal Is Cheaper Than Climate Change: The economic cost of allowing temperatures to rise even a couple of degrees above that target is simply staggering.

Only a Global Green New Deal Can Save the Planet: And Bernie Sanders has a plan for that.

23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today: Take to the streets.

Naomi Klein Knows a Green New Deal Is Our Only Hope Against Climate Catastrophe: In her new book, Klein argues that our current crisis cannot be separated from a long history and brutal present of human exploitation.

Up in Smoke

In Senegal, Climate Change Is Robbing Thousands of Their Homes: No region has done less to contribute to the climate crisis than Africa—or stands to lose more.

What Would Real Commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement Look Like?  The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.

7 Teen Activists Of Color You Need To Know Who Are Leading The Fight Against Climate Change

Trump’s Climate Con

When the world’s on fire, what should we do?

Punching Through the Bad Headlines: Trump’s environmental policies are a daily slog of bad news, but committed activists are slowly changing the story.

Greta Thunberg: “Change is Coming, Whether You Like It or Not”

Interview with the Hurricane

Hating Greta

Greta Thunberg Is the Climate Heroine We Need: Greta Thunberg was dying from depression and starvation when she had a nightmare about climate change that saved her life. It might just save all of us.

How Greta Thunberg Captured Our Attention on Climate: We’re finally ready to absorb her bleak message, and maybe act on it.

Greta Thunberg's unforgettable message

Greta Thunberg Is Right to Panic: The teenage climate-change activist has taken on anxieties far beyond her years. Adults should listen.

Opinion: Can we please base our climate change discussions on facts?

Nuclear power is too costly and too risky

Bird numbers plunge in U.S. and Canada with people to blame

Air pollution particles found on foetal side of placentas – study: Research finds black carbon breathed by mothers can cross into unborn children

Google touts ‘biggest ever’ wind and solar deals: Tech company inks 18 deals towards its goal of ‘carbon-free’ operations

Jeff Bezos expanded Amazon’s climate change pledge. His workers want more

Corporate America has found a way to turn a profit off being green

Greta Thunberg Makes TIME's List Of Women Who Will Change The World: 'Young people across the world have followed her path, striking and marching to make clear to adults and decision-makers that this is a true emergency'

Drought-Proof ‘Cooling Houses’ Use Saltwater and Cardboard to Grow Tons of Healthy Produce in the Desert

Pigs caught on video using tools for the first time

Trump Doubles Down on His Assault on Alaska’s Old-Growth Forests: US Forest Service’s multiple plans to log vast swathes of Tongass National Forest faces stiff opposition

Toward a better measure of our carbon footprint

Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments—You’ll Find Fossil Fuels: From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations.

Fossil Fuel Firms Spend Millions on Social Media Ads Against Climate Regulations While Portraying Selves as Green Heroes: "This is the playbook: deny, delay, confuse, blame 'consumers', spread economic fear, #greenwash, repeat."

Fossil fuel bosses must change or be voted out, says asset manager: State Street chief says it could use shareholder powers to force boards to act on climate

The Climate Movement Breaks Through: Translating urgency into political action is the next task of the climate movement—and a more difficult one.

The Strange, Uncertain Fate of One of the World’s Most Valuable Salmon Habitats: Alaska’s Bristol Bay is a rare pristine salmon fishery. Can it survive a rapidly changing climate—and a massive, Trump-backed mine?

Only Bernie’s Green New Deal Answers Greta’s Call for Action: To fulfill the promise of the climate strikes, we need a bold policy solution.

Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction: On 5,000 hectares of unploughed prairie in north-eastern Montana, hundreds of wild bison roam once again. But this herd is not in a national park or a protected sanctuary – they are on tribal lands.

Take Action: EPA Must Evaluate the Effects of Multiple Pesticide Ingredient Use and Exposure

Michigan is now 'no-kill' state for shelter animals

Greta Thunberg, favourite to win Nobel peace prize, honoured at Standing Rock: Swedish activist, 16, visits North and South Dakota in solidarity with indigenous groups fighting Dakota Access oil pipeline

LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND WILL SMITH JUST TEAMED UP TO SAVE THE AMAZON: Will Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio are on a mission to fight the Amazon fires with a new collaboration with Allbirds, an environmentally-friendly sneaker brand.

Not so green: Greta Thunberg accuses rich countries of “creative carbon accounting”.  When it comes to measuring national emissions, she has a point

Three Dogs Are Rebuilding Chilean Forests Once Devastated By Fire

Schumpeter: Can business tread more lightly on the planet?  The stuff paradox

The week in charts: Emissions and omissions.  Trade and global warming ● Decline of the chairman-CEO ● China slows ● Reform, Ramaphosa ● Congo’s shrinking rainforest

Stories of an extraordinary world: How to feed a protest movement: cooking with Extinction Rebellion
A peek inside the “Rebel Kitchen”

America's Children and the Environment October 2019

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