(2021-10-20). Beware the climate 'convert'. greenleft.org.au Pip Hinman argues that Scott Morrison's much-belated conversion to net zero emissions by 2050 is nothing to celebrate. |
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(2021-10-20). Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education. zcomm.org Simply teaching kids about the science of the climate crisis isn't enough. To prevent feelings of disempowerment, they need to see how they can make a meaningful impact…
(2021-10-20). Indigenous Movements Are Key to the Fight Against Fossil Fuels. zcomm.org The Biden administration and other governments may make climate pledges. But often it's indigenous-led movements who will see that they're kept…
(2021-10-20). XR actions call out the government's #COPOut on climate change. greenleft.org.au Extinction Rebellion (XR) and other climate activists began a fortnight of protests and disruptive actions on October 17 to call out the federal government's failure to address the climate emergency. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2021-10-20). Indigenous Movements are the First, and Often Last, Line of Defense in the Fight Against Fossil Fuels. counterpunch.org Oil is now flowing through the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. The 1,097-mile-long pipeline, owned by the Canadian company Enbridge, includes 337 miles in northern Minnesota. It has faced strong resistance for years from indigenous people and other environmental activists known as "water protectors." Ironically the tap was
(2021-10-20). Canadian Tire Fire #16: Wet'suwet'en Strong, Drinking Water Crisis in Iqaluit, Trudeau Apologizes (Again). itsgoingdown.org 
This week, Wet'suwet'en people and their allies continued to put up a strong resistance to Coastal GasLink's efforts to drill under the Wedzin Kwa and build a pipeline across their territory. At Coyote Camp, Gidimt'en clan members were notably joined by Haudenosaunee people who traveled to the territory in solidarity. 1/ "You can't push the…
(2021-10-19). Manchin, who pockets $500,000 per year from dirty coal, kills critical Biden climate deal. peoplesworld.org 
Last weekend, while the Biden administration tried to piece together a deal to pass its Build Back Better plan, the key climate part of the package — a multi-billion dollar program for clean electricity, was all but killed. This was thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who told the White House that he will not …
(2021-10-19). COP15 pushes biodiversity crisis to top of agenda before U.N. climate meeting. peoplesworld.org 
Humanity must urgently act to halt the escalating biological diversity crisis to prevent ecological collapse and begin nature's recovery. So warned the Global Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), held on Oct. 11-15 in Kunming, China. The Convention, gathering under the theme "Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century," was attended …
(2021-10-19). What Climate Finance Means for the Global South in the Run-up to COP26. towardfreedom.org What tools are available to developing countries to support them as they face climate-change impacts like eroding coastlines and droughts? And how will such tools be made available?
(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). 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). The Weekly Round-up: Human trafficking, climate protest and algorithmic discrimination. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news: In a landmark decision handed down on Tuesday, the High Court ruled that discretionary leave to remain should be granted to recognised modern slavery victims seeking asylum based on the fear of being re-trafficked upon return to their home countries. Linden J delivered judgment in KTT, R (on the application of) v Secretary …
(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). The West Wants to Engage Russia and China on the Climate Crisis While Also Demonising Them — It Won't Work. strategic-culture.org By Patrick COCKBURN | As Britain prepares to host the
(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). '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). Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World. scheerpost.com 
By William Debuys / TomDispatch Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past and the future at the same time. We are a medical expedition and also a pilgrimage, consisting of doctors, nurses, Buddhist clerics, supernumeraries like me, and a large staff of guides, muleteers, and …
(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). 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). '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.