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THE LOFOTEN DECLARATION

01/10/17
Author: 
Lofoten Group
Link: 
lofotendeclaration
Climate Leadership Requires a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production
 
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Category: 
'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Coal
Global
Oil - Pipelines
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100 Percent Wishful Thinking: The Green-Energy Cornucopia

29/09/17
Author: 
Stan Cox
Link: 
Green Social Thought
Hurricane Irma passes by the eastern end of Cuba (NOAA)

At the People’s Climate March back last spring, all along that vast river of people, the atmosphere was electric. But many of the signs and banners were far too focused on electricity. Yes, here and there were solid “System Change, Not Climate Change” - themed signs and banners. But far too many of the slogans on display asserted or implied that ending the climate emergency and avoiding climatic catastrophes like those that would occur months later—hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the mega-wildfires in the U.S.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Global
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Indigenous Groups From Canada Join Ecuador's Fight Against Chevron

28/09/17
Author: 
Telesur staff
Link: 
Telesur
A member of an Indigenous community in Ecuador shows the contamination by Chevron in the Amazon. | Photo: AFP

Ecuador will open a new lawsuit in Canada against the multinational oil giant next month.

A group of Indigenous citizens from Canada is visiting the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador to document environmental damage reportedly committed by multinational oil giant Chevron.

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Category: 
Climate Change
Global
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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Study: 1.5 degree limit to global warming possible if.....

20/09/17
Author: 
Tim Radford
Link: 
Climate News Network

20 September, 2017 − Scientists in the UK have good news for the 195 nations that pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C: it can be done.

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Climate Change
Climate Science
Global
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Scripps says climate change may represent "existential" threat to humanity

18/09/17
Author: 
Gary Robbins
Link: 
The San Diego Union-Tribune

[Editor: see video with original]

There’s a very small but distinct possibility that rapid global warming could pose an “existential threat” to the survival of humans by 2050, UC San Diego said Thursday in one of the most dire forecasts yet about climate change.

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Climate Change
Climate Science
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Fighting for Climate Justice

11/09/17
Author: 
Phil Hearse
Link: 
The Bullet
 Flood victims in Malawi rush to a rescue boat
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Climate Change
Global
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Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050

07/09/17
Author: 
Drew Hansen
Link: 
Forbes.com

[ Editor: The diagnosis is powerful, but the cure that's offered surely completely inadequate!]

Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it’s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale.

• Species are going extinct at a rate 1,000 times faster than that of the natural rate over the previous 65 million years (see Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School).

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Capitalism
Ecology/Environment
Global
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South Asia floods: Mumbai building collapses as monsoon rains wreak havoc

02/09/17
Author: 
Amrit Dhillon
Link: 
The Guardian

 

Flooding across India, Nepal and Bangladesh leaves parts of cities underwater as storm moves on to Pakistan

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At least 21 people are dead and more than a dozen others trapped after monsoon downpours caused a building to collapse in Mumbai.

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Category: 
Climate Change
Global
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Why are the crucial questions about Hurricane Harvey not being asked?

01/09/17
Author: 
George Monbiot
Link: 
The Guardian
 ‘Hurricane Harvey offers a glimpse of a likely global future; a future whose average temperatures are as different from ours as ours are from those of the last ice age.’ Photograph: ddp USA/Rex/Shutterstock

This is a manmade climate-related disaster. To ignore this ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe

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Category: 
Climate Change
Global
USA
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The root of the climate crisis is capitalism, not demographics

15/08/17
Author: 
Michael Friedman
Link: 
Monthly Review
people in a sardine can

Growing concerns about climate change and other environmental trends have set off the next round of old Malthusian diagnoses and solutions.

As a case in point, ecological economist William E. Rees recently wrote in the Canadian alternative magazine The Tyee (“Staving Off the Coming Global Collapse” July 17, 2017):

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Climate Change
Climate Science
Ecosocialism
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