(2021-10-19). Forlorn Farmers, Fatal Fears. counterpunch.org The sinking local economy — weighed down by the years of drought, inflation and climate change — has exacerbated the farmers' problems. Their struggle for survival has become more difficult since the pandemic started, pushing many farmers to the brink of poverty
(2021-10-19). Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26. counterpunch.org It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a famed coal hugger, has vacillated about whether to even go to the climate conference in Glasgow. Having himself turned the country's prime ministerial office into an extended advertising agency,
(2021-10-19). David Choquehuanca: Decolonization Drives Bolivia's Climate Agenda. libya360.wordpress.com Justine Teba David Choquehuanca: An Earth-Centered, Anti-Capitalist Climate Policy from the South Watch full speech here: Transcript: October 11, 2021 Everything is at risk, brothers. Our God is at risk. Our mountains are at risk. The animals are at risk. Life itself in the world is at risk, brothers, it is in danger. All these…
(2021-10-19). 'Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity'. mronline.org 
World Health Organization urges 'rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis'.
(2021-10-19). The west can't engage China on the climate while also demonizing them. zcomm.org Despite all the apocalyptic predictions of climate catastrophe, the moment when these countries really believe that they face an existential threat has yet to arrive…
(2021-10-19). Questions remain in aftermath of disastrous Southern California oil spill. wsws.org On the basis of archived GPS data, investigators have narrowed down the list of ships that may have caused the leak and believe that the initial strike occurred on the pipeline in late January 2021.
(2021-10-19). Journalist Targeted For Reporting On Police Working For A Pipeline Company. popularresistance.org "For the first time in nearly three years, I woke up a few months ago without felony charges hanging over my head. I'm an investigative journalist and I'd been arrested twice in 2018, both times for allegedly trespassing on what's known as "critical infrastructure," a felony under a then-new Louisiana law that — at the urging of the oil and gas industry — redefined pipelines and their construction sites as critical infrastructure."
(2021-10-19). Week of Solidarity with Loma de Bácum and for the Freedom of Fidencio Aldama. itsgoingdown.org Call out for a week of solidarity with the Indigenous Yaqui community of Loma de Bácum and for the freedom of political prisoner Fidencio Aldama, October 21-27, 2021. Since 2015, the Yaqui people of Loma de Bácum, Sonora, have been resisting the Gasoducto Sonora pipeline project that Sempra Energy is trying to build inside their…
(2021-10-19). 'Half-Measures Are No Longer Enough'. zcomm.org "The United States can restore its position as a global leader in conservation and prevent many of these extinctions, but it must take swift action that matches the extent and scale of the problem."
(2021-10-19). Migrant Farmworkers Are Being Left Out Of Roundup Cancer Compensation. popularresistance.org In 2018, a California school groundskeeper took Monsanto Company to court, alleging that Roundup, one of America's most popular weed killers, caused his Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. The jury agreed and ordered Monsanto to pay the man $289 million in damages, concluding the world's first Roundup cancer trial. Legal experts say migrant farmworkers, who are at the forefront of pesticide and herbicide exposures—including Roundup—are expected to be left out.
(2021-10-18). People Vs. Fossil Fuels Mobilization Ends With Youth-Led Civil Disobedience. popularresistance.org Washington, D.C. — Under a banner declaring "We did not vote for fossil fuels," Indigenous and youth climate activists led a march to the Capitol today for a mass civil disobedience action, demanding Congress and the Biden Administration take urgent action to stop all new fossil fuel projects and launch a just renewable energy revolution. 90 people were arrested on the fifth and final day of the "People vs. Fossil Fuels" mobilization, bringing the total arrested during the week of action to 655. | Throughout four days of action at the White House, the "People vs. Fossil Fuels" mobilization pressed President…
(2021-10-18). Activism Needs To Be Part Of Any Meaningful Climate Education. popularresistance.org Last month, crowds of young people and supporters gathered in 1,500 locations around the world for one of the largest youth-led climate protests since countries began emerging from the most restrictive phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students skipped school or staged class walkouts to participate in the Sept. 24 day of action, the latest surge of activity from the school strike movement that launched in late 2018. | The protest was a sign that youth climate activists, who have had to adapt to COVID lockdowns and restrictions on large gatherings, are ready to reassert themselves through mass mobilizations. In…
(2021-10-18). Why Activism Needs To Be Part Of Any Meaningful Climate Education. popularresistance.org Last month, crowds of young people and supporters gathered in 1,500 locations around the world for one of the largest youth-led climate protests since countries began emerging from the most restrictive phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students skipped school or staged class walkouts to participate in the Sept. 24 day of action, the latest surge of activity from the school strike movement that launched in late 2018.
(2021-10-18). Funeral Rites for COVID Zero. counterpunch.org It was such a noble public health dream, even if rather hazy to begin with. Run down SARS-CoV-2. Suppress it. Crush it. Or just "flatten the curve", which could have meant versions of all the above. This created a climate of numerical sensitivity: a few case infections here, a few cases there, would warrant immediate, sharp
(2021-10-18). A City Hall whodunit: what economic and political forces are responsible for climate change? mronline.org 
After a summer of record heat waves, droughts and forest fires, dangerous hurricanes and floods, and melting glaciers and permafrost, the scientific explanations for the climate crisis have gained wider support.
(2021-10-18). Headlines for October 18, 2021. democracynow.org Gutting Democrats' Climate Plans, Manchin Opposes Renewable Energy Program in Reconciliation Bill, Manchin Wants Strict Conditions on Child Tax Credit, Which Has Lifted Millions of Kids from Poverty, FDA Panel Unanimously Recommends Booster Shots of J&J COVID-19 Vaccine, Bronx Man Dies of COVID-19 One Hour After Release from Rikers Jail, COVID Cases on the Rise in the U.K, Russia; Melbourne Ends World's Longest Lockdown, U.S. to Compensate Afghan Families over August Drone Strike That Killed 10 Civilians, Death Toll in ISIS-K Mosque Attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Rises to 47, British Lawmaker David Amess Fatall…
(2021-10-18). Nord Stream 2 Being Filled With Technical Gas, To Start Deliveries Soon. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The first line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been filled with technical gas, and the second is being prepared for this, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 AG project said."As of October 18, the procedure for filling the first line with gas <...> was completed. Commissioning work on the second line continues," the press release said. | It is specified that about 177 million cubic meters were pumped in, which provides a pressure level in the gas pipeline of 103…
(2021-10-18). "Racism Plays a Major Part": Like in Flint, Lead Pipes Leave Benton Harbor, Michigan, with Toxic Water. democracynow.org 
Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, are calling for immediate action on replacing the city's lead pipes, which have endangered their drinking water. Since 2018, tap water in the predominantly Black city has contained lead levels up to 60 times the federal limit. Yet government officials have only addressed the toxic contamination as an urgent crisis in recent days. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who exposed a similar water crisis in the neighboring city of Flint, sees parallels between the two emergencies. "Every day that goes by when there is lead in the water is one day too long for the children of Be…
(2021-10-18). Lead Pipes Leave Benton Harbor, Michigan, With Toxic Water. truthout.org 
Image Credit: YouTube: MLive | Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, are calling for immediate action on replacing the city's lead pipes, which have endangered their drinking water. Since 2018, tap water in the predominantly Black city has contained lead levels up to 60 times the federal limit. Yet government officials have only addressed the toxic contamination as an urgent crisis in recent days. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who exposed a similar water crisis in the neighboring city of Flint, sees parall…