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30/07/19
Author: 
Ruth Milka
Image Credit: Corey Torpie/Courtesy of the Ocasio-Cortez Campaign

July 30, 2019

"Climate change represents not only the greatest threat to our species, but one of our greatest economic opportunities."

Senator and presidential-hopeful Kamala Harris and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have partnered to propose a bill that would target communities that are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

The Climate Equity Act would “ensure that the United States government makes communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis the foundation of policy related to climate and the environment.”

23/07/19
Author: 
Ben Ehrenreich

The alternative is the death of millions and a world fractured by nationalism.

21/07/19
Author: 
George Monbiot

Governments have built a heaven for landlords and a hell for tenants. It’s time to change the system.

published in the Guardian 17th July 2019

04/07/19
Author: 
Dr. Tim K. Takaro

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Submitting Comment on:  A.  Condition compliance            B. Detailed route approval 

Title: Health Officers’ Council of BC calls health impacts assessment inadequate

02/07/19
Author: 
Peter Dockrill
(Andrew Davidson/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

June 26, 2019

Global inaction on climate change is creating a catastrophic 'climate apartheid' in which human rights as we know them – especially those of the world's most vulnerable people – are themselves threatened with extinction, a United Nations (UN) official warns.

18/06/19
Author: 
news.com.au
June 3, 2019
 
A heatwave has suddenly borne down on millions of people, killing several as the temperature passes 50C Celsius.
 

Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.

The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu over the weekend, the weather department said.

14/06/19
Author: 
Laura Millan Lombrana
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.
 
 
12/06/19
Author: 
Colin Hogg
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.

10/06/19
Author: 
YouthStopTMX

Media Release

YOUTH CLIMATE STRIKERS DEMAND RIGHTS AGAINST TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE

June 10th, 2019 *** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***

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