Global

The number of heatwaves affecting the planet’s oceans has increased sharply, scientists have revealed, killing swathes of sea-life like “wildfires that take out huge areas of forest”.

The damage caused in these hotspots is also harmful for humanity, which relies on the oceans for oxygen, food, storm protection and the removal of climate-warming carbon dioxide the atmosphere, they say.

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Climate Change

Fisheries

Global

How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis is Really Maduro’s Fault?

18/02/19

Author:

Steve Ellner

Link:

Consortium News

Feb 15, 2019 - There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media, writes Steve Ellner.

By Steve Ellner
Special to Consortium News

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Global

Why we need a European Green New Deal

18/02/19

Author:

Srećko Horvat

Link:

Roar Magazine

If socialism in one country was a pipe dream, so will be the idea of an ecological transition in one country. To make it work, the Green New Deal will have to be internationalized.

The damage caused by air pollution is now being compared to the effects of tobacco use. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to global health in 2019, killing seven million people prematurely every year, which is around the number of deaths caused by cigarettes.

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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

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

Unifor’s GM boycott won’t work

08/02/19

Author:

Gerard Di Trolio and Doug Nesbitt

Link:

Rank and File

Protest in Detroit demanding a Green New Deal

["A very good article analyzing union options in the struggle sparked by GM's decision to close its Oshawa plant (and others). Embedded in the article is also a very good short video by the Democratic Socialists of America on the green opportunities presented by the situation. " Gene McGuckin]

February 2, 2019

Two months after the GM Oshawa closure announcement, Unifor’s big idea is a campaign to boycott GM cars made in Mexico. The union is even spending huge money on a Super Bowl commercial that will reach about 5 million Canadians.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy