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The climate crisis calls for a planetary politics

01/05/19

Author:

Amir Hernandez

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By that, I mean: a world democratic socialist republic.

Global warming connects the local and the global. As Canada dumps greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at a rate of 22 tonnes per person each year, sea levels in Bangladesh rise, swallowing coastal communities.

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Why the US bears the most responsibility for climate change, in one chart

29/04/19

Author:

Umair Irfan

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Vox.com

Humans are pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at an accelerating rate. But climate change is a cumulative problem, a function of the total amount of greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the sky. Some of the heat-trapping gases in the air right now date back to the Industrial Revolution. And since that time, some countries have pumped out vastly more carbon dioxide than others.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to British MPs

26/04/19

Author:

Greta Thunberg

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The Guardian

My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 16 years old. I come from Sweden. And I speak on behalf of future generations.

I know many of you don’t want to listen to us – you say we are just children. But we’re only repeating the message of the united climate science.

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“Remember the South”: Devastating Cyclone Idai Another Example of Global South Paying for Polluters

26/03/19

Author:

Democracy Now

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System Change not Climate Change

Democracy Now | DN | March 22, 2019

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Climate Change

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Canadian children school adults about climate crisis

18/03/19

Author:

Fatima Syed & Brenna Owen

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National Observer

Students walked out of school to gather on the south lawn of Queens Park in Toronto to rally for climate change on March 15, 2019. Photo by Carlos Osorio

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Twelve-year-old Roy Bateman already knows what he’d say if he met Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

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Heatwaves sweeping oceans ‘like wildfires’, scientists reveal

04/03/19

Author:

Damian Carrington

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The Guardian

Ocean heatwaves destroy kelp forests, which provide food and shelter for many other species. Photograph: Thomas Schmitt/Getty Images

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

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

18/02/19

Author:

Steve Ellner

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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

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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

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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

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