BOOK PREVIEW | If You Exist: In Search of a Reader Deep
in the Future
‘Abnormally high’ turtle deaths after acid-laden ship sinks
off Sri Lanka
New Alaskan Oil Quest Sparks Battle Over Tribal
Sovereignty: A firm with a history of violations is doing exploratory drilling
in the Yukon Flats.
DuPont Poisoning The World {BBC Documentary}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6veeTrdEyek
10 things you need to know today: July 11, 2021: Death
Valley potentially ties record temperatures, Haitian first lady makes first
public remarks since husband's assassination, and more
Fox News Adds Climate Coverage
to Its Portfolio of Destruction: Cable news’s traditional home for climate
denialism and political radicalism is going to make a right-wing run at the
Weather Channel.
Climate Crisis & Militarism
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/climatecrisis
Talk World Radio: Veterans For Peace Take on Climate
Collapse
https://davidswanson.org/talk-world-radio-veterans-for-peace-take-on-climate-collapse/
The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their
Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
All Information (Except Text) for H.R.2307 - Energy
Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2021
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2307/all-info
Dangerous heat wave to bake West, potentially break
records: The 116-degree high at Las Vegas' airport, which resulted in flights
delayed and canceled, was one shy of the city's all-time record of 117.
Climate change made North America’s deadly heatwave 150
times more likely: Rising global temperatures probably contributed to a week of
record-breaking heat in Canada and the United States.
This Governor Withdrew From A Climate Pact. Days Later,
He’s Pleading For Help With Drought.
Montana GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte isn’t interested in helping combat
climate change, but wants federal assistance to deal with its worsening
impacts.
Severe drought threatens Hoover dam reservoir – and water
for US west: The wellspring of Lake Mead created by the dam’s blocking of the
Colorado River has plummeted to an historic low as states in the west face
hefty cuts in their water supplies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/13/hoover-dam-lake-mead-severe-drought-us-west
Centrist Think Tanks Are Raking In Exxon Cash: An annual
ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to
Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar
institutions.
How big oil keeps a grip on New Mexico – with the help of
a major lobbyist
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/11/pro-oil-gas-lobbying-influence-republican-new-mexico
Floods, hurricanes, and heatwaves: Climate change will
intensify extreme weather in Illinois, report finds
Warming, deforestation turn Amazon into source of carbon
dioxide
What’s behind the driest year for Lake Ontario since
1966? Scientists have always recorded
fluctuations in water levels, but they say the dramatic shift between extremes
in recent years is ‘shocking’
Fossil fuel industry faces an overdue reckoning
Lake Tahoe's famously clear water is murky - here's
what's causing it
Climate Change’s Fingerprints on Heat Waves
Government decision prioritizes Alberta’s mountains, not
mines
Maine becomes first state to shift costs of recycling
from taxpayers to companies
Europe Might Slap a Climate Tax on Us. Good. The United States fully deserves to face
tariffs for its failure to pass climate legislation.
Death to America’s Manicured Lawns: Nevada’s legislature
is considering banning decorative grass. But really we should be banning most
lawns in the country.
Cruise ships are back. And it’s a catastrophe for the
environment: Cruise ships kill whales, leak gray water, and are largely exempt
from US taxation. When they violate the law, they pay the equivalent of a
parking ticket
This map shows the gaps between who is causing climate
change and who is suffering from it
The areas with highest emissions and the areas with
highest temperature increases are not the same places.
Al Gore: Greenwashing is 'rising threat' that could
derail climate progress. Consumers are
faced with "confusing and often misleading claims about sustainability
benefits", according to US vice president's analysis.
Rethinking Southeast Asia’s Energy Plans
Extreme temperatures kill 5 million people a year with
heat-related deaths rising, study finds: More people died of cold than heat in
past 20 years but climate change is shifting the balance
Those Bathing Bears Aren’t Cute. They’re Climate Change
Victims. Watching ABC’s video of a
mother and cubs at Lake Tahoe, it’s easy to forget that this isn’t a family
outing but a scene of desperation: The bears are seeking relief from the
extreme heat.
What's in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist explains its
dangerous components
Farmers in Canada report massive crop damage in heat wave
Why is the sun red? Wildfire smoke from a continent away
spreads to New York.
See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America
A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on
Growth
Groundwater and streams vital to both farmers and cities
are drying up in the West, challenging the future of development.
‘Please Save Us!’ Grim Scenes in China as Flood Inundates
a Subway: The heaviest rainfall on record in central China also swept cars and
people away, caused power outages and suspended rail services and flights.
E.P.A. Approved Toxic Chemicals for Fracking a Decade
Ago, New Files Show: The compounds can form PFAS, also known as “forever
chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The E.P.A.
approvals came despite the agency’s own concerns about toxicity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/climate/epa-pfas-fracking-forever-chemicals.html
Ban “Forever Chemicals” in Fracking! Tell EPA to Prohibit
the Use of PFAS in Gas and Oil Extraction!
The Oil and Gas Industry Produces Radioactive Waste. Lots
of It. A new report from the Natural
Resources Defense Council confirms Rolling Stone‘s bombshell investigation into
the fossil fuel industry’s waste problem
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oil-and-gas-industry-radioactive-waste-1199707/
NEW REPORT: FRACKING WITH “FOREVER CHEMICALS”
https://www.psr.org/blog/new-report-fracking-with-forever-chemicals/
Money in Politics
https://www.followthemoney.org/
How a Powerful US Lobby Group Helps Big Oil to Block
Climate Action: The American Petroleum Institute receives millions from oil
companies—and works behinds the scenes to stall or weaken legislation.
Does Anyone Understand the Democrats’ Mind-Bendingly
Complicated Carbon Tariff Bill? The
so-called carbon border adjustment mechanism proposed by Democratic Senator
Chris Coons this week is going to be pretty hard to implement.
The Left Is the Only Reason We’re Talking About Climate
Change at All: It’s become fashionable to suggest climate activists are too
hard on Joe Biden. Being hard on Joe Biden is what got climate spending into
the infrastructure package.
How concentrated solar power could fuel the future | Big
Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW42wBthN2A
How to Live in a Burning World Without Losing Your Mind:
The emotional burden of climate change can be overwhelming alongside the grief
and frustration of our own lives.
Toomey, Feinstein, Collins, Menendez Introduce Bipartisan
Bill to Repeal Ethanol Mandate
The Revenge of the Cars: Traffic, car sales, and car
rentals are rising, crushing the pandemic-era hope that streets could be
reclaimed for pedestrians and bikers.
Cities Unprepared for Intense, Frequent Heat Waves
The Flower at My Window
https://poets.org/poem/flower-my-window
NASA predicts a 'wobbly moon' could drown us in 2035
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvyzwYudV9M
NASA predicts extreme floods due to moon's wobble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtzxTs4DC5M
The Apocalypse is Now
Understanding past climate change 'tipping points' can
help us prepare for the future
A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due
to climate change, study finds: ‘The consequences of a collapse would likely be
far-reaching’
Yeast turns corn leftovers into fuel: Tweaked microbe
could tap underused source of energy
Climate Models Now Showing Implausibly Fast Warming
California's Dixie fire 'catastrophically destroyed'
historic Greenville as new conflagrations erupt
‘Wild Souls’ explores what we owe animals in a
human-dominated world: The book grapples with the ethical dilemmas of saving
Earth’s animals
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wild-souls-book-endangered-animals-humans-ethics
A new book reveals stories of ancient life written in
North America’s rocks: ‘How the Mountains Grew’ steps through time, space, life
and land on a geologic journey
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/north-america-rocks-new-book-geology-history-ancient-life
Apocalypse HOPI Prophecy is Coming True | Floyd 'Red
Crow' Westerman (Kangi Duta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4DCFvaK7LA
Thunberg calls out climate impact of fashion brands in
Vogue interview
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58145465
Judge orders utility PG&E to explain role in start of
Dixie Fire that’s tearing through California
Earth is warming faster than previously thought,
scientists say, and the window is closing to avoid catastrophic outcomes
American government is heading for a climate-induced
legitimacy crisis: Revolutions happen when a political system fails to address
huge, obvious problems
Playing Nice With the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Climate
Denial: A new report on climate change shows the futility of the Biden
administration’s electric vehicle dream.
The great death of insects | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CidaOP7PA-o
How to Tell Your Child About the End of the World: We can
still avoid total catastrophe. But eventually kids will realize that we’re not
on course to do that.
Activists Call It A ‘False Solution.’ But UN Scientists
Say We Need To Suck Up CO2. The latest
global climate report makes clear we need to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,
and “planting trees” won’t be enough.
The Media’s Climate Blind Spot Is Geographic: When
climate coverage ignores the Global South, it’s bad for everyone.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-global-south/
The U.N.’s Terrifying Climate Report: Scientists predict
hotter heat waves and worse flooding in the decades ahead, but the catastrophe
is evident everywhere this summer
We Chose War, Violence, and Hatred: America Is a Sinking
Warship on a Melting Iceberg
Global Climate Change Wreaking Havoc
Climate Crisis, Consumerism, Inequality
Europe: The world's first carbon-neutral continent? | DW
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCvyQ51L0B0
The Democrats Responded to the Latest UN Climate Report
With Business as Usual: Their tweets said they were concerned. Their actions
said otherwise.
https://newrepublic.com/article/163274/democrats-responded-latest-un-climate-report-business-usual
The First-Ever Colorado River Water Shortage Has Been
Declared. What Does That Mean For Colorado?
https://www.cpr.org/2021/08/16/colorado-river-water-shortage-declared/
‘The fire moved around it’: success story in Oregon fuels
calls for prescribed burns. Oregon’s
Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how
megafires behave
Your compostable cups and containers aren’t reversing the
plastic problem: Our waste systems just aren't ready for compostable plastic.
PROMINENT VENTURE CAPITALIST ADMITS THAT THE “CLIMATE IS
F’D” THIS GREEN TECH FUND JUST RAISED
$800 MILLION "TO KEEP UNF***ING THE PLANET."
We Need Better Climate Propaganda: Warnings about the
catastrophes ahead need to name the enemy and give people something to do.
How East Coast Media Bias Skews the News: Go west, media
outlets: The lack of geographical perspective is damaging coverage of matters
ranging from national politics to climate change.
Chasing the Lava Flow in Iceland: At a volcanic eruption,
the sublime experience of watching land submerge land.
DHL Orders 12 Electric Cargo Planes: The Eviation Alice
all-electric aircraft can fly 440 nautical miles carrying 2,500 pounds of
cargo.
https://insideevs.com/news/524833/dhl-orders-electric-planes-eviation/
The California fires and the case for socialism:
Statement of David Moore—California gubernatorial candidate of the Socialist
Equality Party
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/21/fire-a21.html
Mid-Atlantic Mayors’ Virtual Lunchtime Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paydlkYhtmg
‘Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at
Risk. “When hospitals are understaffed,
people die,” one expert warned as the U.S. health systems reach a breaking
point in the face of the Delta variant.
The planet is in peril. We’re building Congress’s
strongest-ever climate bill: More than any other legislation in US history it
will transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into sustainable
energy
Are North America’s wild horses native?
https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/10/07/north-americas-wild-horses-native/
Letters to the Editor: Those gorgeous herds of wild
horses are non-native and destroying the West
https://news.yahoo.com/letters-editor-those-gorgeous-herds-100006213.html
Unrealistic experiments mean true impact of nitrogen
pollution on the environment is unknown
How Children Can Break the Climate Policy Deadlock: The
politics of climate and the politics of care are closely linked. An alliance is
overdue.
Climate Change May Turn Even Experienced Outdoorspeople
Into Newbies: As heat, wildfires, and freak weather patterns transform familiar
surroundings, can hikers and runners still rely on their instincts?
The Proliferation of Plastics and Toxic Chemicals Must
End
Philly’s Gas Utility is Fighting the City on Climate
Policy: As the city tries to wean itself off gas, municipally-owned
Philadelphia Gas Works is siding with the gas industry against policies that
would encourage the use of more energy efficient appliances.
Hurricane Ida Is a Manmade Disaster: The same fossil fuel
industry whose emissions helped intensify the storm also modified the Louisiana
coastline to make it more vulnerable to flooding.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Rule Governing Water
Pollution: The rule allowed fertilizers, pesticides and industrial chemicals to
flow into small streams, marshes and wetlands. The judge warned of
environmental harm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/climate/federal-judge-trump-water-pollution.html
FEMA ends policy that denied disaster aid to thousands of
Black families
The Severe Weather Event We Routinely Ignore: Poor Air
Quality: Air pollution is just as fatal as hurricanes, and it profoundly
affects our well-being. Yet we no longer treat it as a crisis.
Biden to Ida victims in Louisiana: 'We're not going to
leave any community behind'
Climate Change Means Teaching Kids to Love What They
Might Soon Lose: Will my son grow up with monarch butterflies?
Climate Change Keeps Wildfires Coming Back: Fires have
spread across the 21st-century West and winds have carried their smoke past the
East Coast and on to darken skies in Europe. And a hotter Earth will trigger
“progressively serious, centuries’ long and, in some cases, irreversible
consequences.”
http://www.populist.com/27.16.CMiller.html
Hell on Earth: Warming Gone Wild
http://www.populist.com/27.16.Lingo.html
Keeping Storms at Bay: How a national infrastructure
program would protect Americans from hurricanes
http://www.populist.com/27.16.Conway.html
A Triple Code Red for Humanity
http://www.populist.com/27.16.Rodriguez.html
Divers pinpoint source of Gulf oil spill caused by
Hurricane Ida
Climate risks to add $183bn to property insurance costs
by 2040, Swiss Re predicts: Wildfires, winter storms and floods have already
made 2021 costly for the industry
https://www.ft.com/content/5d271251-973d-45e5-8982-2e28bf96f952
Can Fashion Help Small Farmers Preserve the Amazon? Many consider capitalist solutions to
conservation to be démodé. But done right, they could spark the wealth transfer
needed to save the world’s largest rain forest.
People Vs. Fossil Fuels is organized by Build Back Fossil
Free, a campaign led by hundreds of grassroots and national groups across the
country.
https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org/
In the Northeast, Hurricanes Now Look Very Different:
That I could have ever found such a visitation of chaos invigorating is amazing
to me.
As California Burns, Teacher Pension Postpones Divestment
How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210825-how-to-fight-microplastic-pollution-with-magnets
“This Was Avoidable,” Climate Activists Say About Grim
New Science: The United Nations’ latest climate report says capping global
temperature rise at 1.5° C is imperative—and still within reach through
immediate, aggressive action.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ipcc-climate-change-report/
People vs. Fossil Fuels
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/people-vs-fossil-fuels/
People vs Fossil Fuels Week of Action
https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org/invitation/
The Corpus Christi Water Wars: A coalition of residents is
trying to halt the region’s rapid industrial sprawl. The fight is now centered
on the water supply for a massive new Exxon SABIC plastics plant in the
drought-prone Texas city
Multi-Faith Delegation for "People vs. Fossil
Fuels" DC Action - October '21
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfccfk5mkxKrPc6NOfcGKuUK_zit6ULkGQE6dT2NtrfeidQag/viewform
Rep. Katie Porter Exposes How Big Oil Cheats Taxpayers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyCii1MTyg
Can Turning CO2 to Stone Help Save the Planet? | Out of
Our Elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6HbgOmZDk
A Severe Drought Is Threatening the Hoover Dam
Reservoir—and Water Throughout the West
“We bent nature to suit our own needs, and now nature is
going to bend us.”
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