(2021-09-28). Infrastructure and Budget Bills Contain Very Bad Logging Provisions Which Will Make Climate Change Worse‚Ä®. counterpunch.org In so many ways the future hangs in the balance as Congress debates the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill and $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Although encouraging the use of more electric vehicles and increasing solar and wind energy will definitely reduce the amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere, there are also huge problems
(2021-09-28). Reconciling The Reconciliation Bill: A Preview. popularresistance.org This past week maneuvers within the Democratic party intensified over the content and magnitude of the two pending fiscal stimulus bills—the Infrastructure Bill (with $550B of net new spending) and the Reconciliation Bill ( with initial $3.5T 'human infrastructure & climate change' spending). While the maneuvering appears as a deep difference of views between progressives in the US House and Senate demanding both bills pass simultaneously and Democrat Senators, Manchin and Sinema in that body blocking both bills in current form, the actual conflict is really between the corporate wing of the Democratic…
(2021-09-28). Australia's Man in Washington: Morrison's Tour of Deception. counterpunch.org It was startling and even shocking. Away from the thrust and cut of domestic politics, not to mention noisy discord within his government's ranks, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison could breathe a sign of relief. Perhaps no one would notice in Washington that Australia remains prehistoric in approaching climate change relative to its counterparts. Being
(2021-09-28). In the wake of the pandemic: the rebirth of climate mobilizations. mronline.org 
One-hundred-thousand students strike. Fifteen-to-twenty thousand demonstrate in Quebec.
(2021-09-28). Bridge the North-South Divide for a UN Biodiversity Framework That is More Just. counterpunch.org This month, the leaders of nation states from around the world have been gathered in New York City to attend the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Covid, climate and biodiversity are among the topics they are expected to address. Indeed, on September 21, in his sobering yet passionate address to the assembly, UN Secretary-General António
(2021-09-28). Morrison on track to fail us at COP26. greenleft.org.au Scott Morrison is still clinging to a weak emission reduction target of 26-28%, set six years ago. At the current rate, we won't reach net zero climate pollution until 2170, argues Jesse de Waal.
(2021-09-28). Unions and Climate Activists Find Common Cause in Opposing Airport Expansion. zcomm.org Labor-climate alliances like the one in Los Angeles could be key to paving the way for a future with fewer flights…
(2021-09-28). Sinema Will Hold Fundraiser With Groups Lobbying Against Reconciliation Bill. truthout.org 
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a conservative Democrat from Arizona, is slated to hold a fundraiser courting lobbyist groups that are vehemently opposed to the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, which aims to widen the country's social safety net and address climate disruption. | The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and its PAC, the National Grocers Association, lobbyists for roofers and electrical contractors, and a conservative-leaning group called S-Corp Political Action Committee used S…
(2021-09-28). Young People March for Climate Justice. indybay.org March, Sit-Down, Die-In and Rally at City Hall part of Global Climate Strike for Intersectional Climate Justice…
(2021-09-28). Mayo Clinic Minute: Should you wash your raw meats and vegetables before cooking? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When it comes to food safety in the kitchen, it's important to keep your work area clean from bacteria and the possibility of cross-contamination. It's best to use hot, soapy water to wash utensils, cutting boards and other surfaces you use, especially when handling raw meat and poultry. But what about washing raw meat and chicken before cooking? Here's Mayo Clinic clinical dietitian Anya Hill with more. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqx6Je9zEYc Journalists: Broadcast-quality…
(2021-09-27). Big Banks Are Funding Fossil Fuel Projects — Let's Hold Them Accountable. popularresistance.org The biggest banks are using your money to fund the climate crisis. We have seen this story before. In 2008, the recklessness of megabanks sank the global economic system. Now, in 2021, the youth climate movement is saying that we've had enough. We're not going to let the banks bring down the entire planet too. On October 29, young people are occupying and shutting down banks across the globe to demand an end to fossil fuel financing and the beginning of a Fossil-Free Future, and we need you to join us. | Over the past few years, the youth climate justice movement has mobilized historic numbers of people. Together…
(2021-09-27). Climate Protesters Defy Court Order To Block Highway. popularresistance.org London — Insulate Britain campaigners, an environmental group calling on the UK government to implement a better national home insulation program, blocked on Monday the M25 highway encircling London for the sixth time, despite a court order warning them of jail terms if they carried on disrupting traffic on UK's busiest road. | "You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere. You can raid our savings and confiscate our property. You can deny us our liberty and put us behind bars. But that is only shooting the messenger. The truth is that this country is going to hell unless yo…
(2021-09-27). Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of "Abraham Accords" juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The so-called Abraham Accords, which take the patriarch's name in vain, were about many things, but genuine peace was not one of them. The were a series of bilateral horse trades with no implication for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Now it turns out that they were in part a plot against the …
(2021-09-27). Headlines for September 27, 2021. democracynow.org Haitians Condemn Mass Deportations and Inhumane Treatment by the U.S., Social Democrats to Form Coalition Gov't in Germany After Edging Out Merkel's Long-Standing Bloc, Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank; Political Leader Khalida Jarrar Released from Prison, Mahmoud Abbas Gives Israel One Year to End Occupation, Vanuatu to Ask for ICJ Opinion on Climate Crisis, Activists Take to Streets for Global Climate Strike, PG&E Charged with Manslaughter over 2020 Zogg Fire as Wildfires Rage in California, Al-Shabab Suicide Attack Kills at Least 8 People in Mogadishu, Canada's Catholic Bishops Apologize for Abu…
(2021-09-27). The Climate Movement Can Win Over Workers. zcomm.org Working people can be won to support radical action on climate change — so long as decarbonization is tied to a vision of shared prosperity for all…
(2021-09-27). Climate strike: "Under capitalism, we can't save the climate" wsws.org Members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality spoke with participants in last Friday's climate strike, which attracted over 620,000 in Germany alone.
(2021-09-27). Rapid shift to clean energy could save 'trillions.' But corporate-backed groups are fighting the transition in U.S. Budget Bill. mronline.org 
Wind, solar, and batteries are already the cheapest source of electricity and an aggressive shift to clean energy makes more economic sense than a slow one, according to a new study. However, an enormous lobbying effort is underway to block climate policy in the $3.5 trillion budget bill under consideration.
(2021-09-27). China's Emissions Are Made in America. truthout.org 
The debate over the reality of climate change is over. After years of oil-fueled denialism, the inescapable fact of the human-altered climate has finally hit home for many once-skeptical Americans. In some cases, it has literally hit home. In various parts of the country, homes are being threatened, torched and inundated by a barrage of climate-stoked catastrophes. Real-world experience has replaced easy-to-dismiss graphs and scientific models with failing crops, drowning livestock, escalating insurance costs, collapsing infrastruc…
(2021-09-27). Move or change: How plants and animals are trying to survive a warming world. nationofchange.org Thor Hanson's new book explains the biology behind climate change and why some species may be better able to survive a quickly changing planet.
(2021-09-27). Acclimation and Heat Stress of Plants, and Future Crop Failures. counterpunch.org One of the most popular ideas that springs into people's minds when mulling over remedies for slowing the advance of climate change because of the ever increasing accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is to plant more trees, bushes and grasses. Let a greater quantity of plant photosynthesis filter our atmosphere of excess CO2.
(2021-09-27). Our Man in Washington: Morrison's Tour of Deception. southfront.org 
Scott Morrison | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | It was startling and even shocking. Away from the thrust and cut of domestic politics, not to mention noisy discord within his government's ranks, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison could breathe a sign of relief. Perhaps no one would notice in Washington that Australia remains prehistoric in approaching climate change relative to its counterparts. Being known in his own country as "Scotty from Marketing", he just might pull it off. | Besides, a security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom had just been cemented, one promising Canberra eight…
(2021-09-27). 160 Patient Advocates Demand Medicare Negotiation in Build Back Better Package. commondreams.org "If we don't pass our agenda together—that's infrastructure AND paid leave, child care, climate action, and more—then we're leaving millions of working people behind."
(2021-09-27). What do we mean by metabolic rift? mronline.org 
rs21 member Greg Peakin explains the concept of metabolic rift, and why it is an important tool for climate organising today.
(2021-09-27). Biden and Xi address UN, juggling differences amid calls for unity on climate and COVID-19. mronline.org 
The leaders of the United States and China each pledged to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that they would help press the fight against virulent pandemics and global warming—even as they offered vastly different visions of the world order.
(2021-09-27). Climate Justice Must Be a Top Priority for Labor. zcomm.org We need to begin a discussion among co-workers, creating demands and acting on them at the workplace and bargaining table. We need to show up at local union meetings, central labor councils, and town halls supporting demands that move us toward a fossil fuel-free future…
(2021-09-27). Children will face huge increases in extreme climate events in their lifetimes. imperial.ac.uk Children born today will face disproportionate increases in floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and crop failures due to climate change.
(2021-09-27). Spain to ban plastic wrap for fruits and veggies. nationofchange.org The plastic waste used to wrap fruits and vegetables has been opposed by environmental groups both in Spain and abroad.