Climate Change

The Climate Emergency Continuum: from Bad to Cataclysmic

16/06/19

Author:

Jonathon Porritt

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June 7, 2019

I’m pretty attuned to being on the receiving end of regular apocalypse-fixes. But even for me, Monday last week (20/5) was a tough one, with a new research report indicating that the worst case sea-level rise by 2100 has now been assessed at a possible two metres. Previously, it was thought to be no more than one metre.

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Climate Change

Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert

14/06/19

Author:

Laura Millan Lombrana

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bloomberg.com

Dry and cracked ground marks an area where water is being pumped by mining companies in the southern tip of the Atacama salt flat. Photographer: Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg

June 11, 2019

Mining lithium and copper to supply the battery boom and fight climate change is wrecking a fragile ecosystem in Chile.

The oases that once interrupted the dusty slopes of the Atacama desert in northern Chile allowed humans and animals to survive for thousands of years in the world’s driest climate. That was before the mining started.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Why we need to listen to young people

12/06/19

Author:

Colin Hogg

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noted

Tamatha Paul is a 22-year-old standing for Wellington City Council as an independent. Photo/Screenshot.

11 June 2019

The future is the business of young people.

Out of the mouths of babes come words of wisdom, according to that old tome of assorted wisdoms, The Bible. Which isn’t to say that 16-year-olds are babies, just that, in some ways, we treat 16-year-olds as if they are and perhaps we shouldn’t.

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Climate Change

Protest - Revolt

Social

Extinction Rebellion’s tactics are working. It has pierced the bubble of denial

12/06/19

Author:

Matthew Todd

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The Guardian

10 June 2019

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Climate Change

Protest - Revolt

Social

The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response

07/06/19

Author:

Joseph Stiglitz

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The Guardian

‘The war on the climate emergency, if correctly waged, would actually be good for the economy’ Photograph: Press Enterpr/Rex/Shutterstock

4 June 2019

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake

[Editor: We agree that we can and have to afford it but not with growing the economy in the way this happened following World War II. !]

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Climate Change

USA

Public concern over environment reaches record high in UK

07/06/19

Author:

Damian Carrington

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The Guardian

The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed British MPs in April. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

5 June 2019

Britons are more worried about climate crisis than economy, crime and immigration

Public concern about the environment has soared to record levels in the UK since the visit of Greta Thunberg to parliament and the Extinction Rebellion protests in April.

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Climate Change

Social

Between Dystopia and Democratic Socialism

04/06/19

Author:

Andrew Jackson

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The Bullet

June 4, 2019

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A Green New Deal Needs to Fight US Militarism

04/06/19

Author:

Phyllis Bennis

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Jacobin Magazine

The US warship USS Harry S. Truman is pictured anchored in The Solent on October 8, 2018 near Portsmouth, England. Matt Cardy / Getty Images.

05.08.2019

We can’t heal the climate if the US war machine keeps raining destruction, absorbing resources, and gobbling up fossil fuels all around the world. Here’s how to stop it.

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Climate Change

USA

War/military