Climate Change

Climate strike: Schoolchildren protest over climate change

15/02/19
Author: 
BBC
Link: 
BBC News

Feb. 15, 2019

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Pupils from around the UK went "on strike" on Friday as part of a global campaign for action on climate change.

Students around the country walked out of schools to call on the government to declare a climate emergency and take active steps to tackle the problem.

Organisers Youth Strike 4 Climate said protests took place in more than 60 towns and cities, with an estimated 15,000 taking part.

They carried placards, some reading: "There is no planet B."

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Climate Change
Protest - Revolt
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The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn On The Green New Deal

14/02/19
Author: 
Naomi Klein
Link: 
The Intercept
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks alongside Sen. Ed Markey at a news conference about the Green New Deal, in Washington, Feb. 7, 2019. Photo: Pete Marovich/Redux

February 13 2019

“I REALLY DON’T like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ or ‘you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!'”

So bellowed President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas, his first campaign-style salvo against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey’s Green New Deal resolution. There will surely be many more.

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Climate Change
USA
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Noam Chomsky - 'In a couple of generations, organized human society may not survive.'

13/02/19
Author: 
Robert Hackett
Link: 
National Observer

February 12th 2019

The elegant simplicity of his campus office — a small round table with several straight-backed chairs, a laptop on an uncluttered desk — contrasts with his reputation as one of the world’s leading public intellectuals. Now aged 90, Noam Chomsky continues to write, and is co-teaching a course on politics and global crises at the University of Arizona.

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Climate Change
Global
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Canada's new food guide fails to deliver sustainable diets

10/02/19
Author: 
Trevor Rous
Link: 
National Observer
The new Canada's Food Guide recommends a variety of vegetables and fruit. Handout photo Government of Canada

February 4th 2019

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Agriculture
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Social
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Response from Indigenous Environmental Network to the Green New Deal

09/02/19
Author: 
http://www.ienearth.org/
Link: 
Indigenous Environmental Network

TALKING POINTS ON THE AOC-MARKEY GREEN NEW DEAL (GND) RESOLUTION

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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
USA
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March 15 th Global Climate Strike For Future

08/02/19
Author: 
Global Climate Strike For Future
Link: 
Global Climate Strike For Future
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Climate Change
Global
Protest - Revolt
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Governor says Washington will try to influence Trans Mountain 'every way' it can

08/02/19
Author: 
Laura Kane
Link: 
National Observer
The Canadian Press

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says his state shares concerns with British Columbia about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and will continue to voice its objections any way it can.

Inslee made the comments at a joint news conference in Seattle on Thursday with B.C. Premier John Horgan, who is visiting the state to discuss partnerships on endangered killer whales, clean energy and high-speed rail.

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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Facing jail over Trans Mountain protest, this lawyer asks court to consider what 'no one wants to talk about'

08/02/19
Author: 
Richard Littlemore
Link: 
National Observer
retired lawyer David Gooderham among his files on climate change at home in Vancouver, B.C. on Jan. 25, 2019. Photo by Michael Ruffolo

February 7th 2019

Retired lawyer David Gooderham, 73, may soon cap a distinguished career in law with a 28-day jail sentence for contempt of court for joining protesters who have gathered to block work on the Trans Mountain pipeline.

But he says it’s worth the risk if it gives him a chance to trigger the first-ever court hearing in Canada on the validity of the science of climate change and the implications of federal pipeline policy.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
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A Green New Deal can give us the freedoms to allow humanity to flourish

08/02/19
Author: 
Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos
Link: 
The Guardian
A Green New Deal that is big and bold enough could end the arbitrary power of the few over the many. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUM/Rex Shutterstock

Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to redefine freedom in the face of war. The Green New Deal imagines goals for a colorful democracy

One of the biggest challenges of climate politics is that the solutions seem scarier than the problem. We worry that to truly decarbonize, we’d need an authoritarian government or endless austerity. But a big and bold enough Green New Deal could finally make us truly free.

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Climate Change
Social
USA
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The Green New Deal Takes Its First Congressional Baby Step, As Pelosi Mocks “Green Dream or Whatever”

07/02/19
Author: 
Kate Aronoff
Link: 
The Intercept
Sunrise Movement protesters advocate that Democrats support the Green New Deal inside the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 10, 2018. Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

THE FIRST HAND of the Green New Deal has been dealt. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Thursday unveiled a five-page, nonbinding resolution that frames a 10-year “national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization” to confront the climate crisis.

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Climate Change
Protest - Revolt
USA
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