"Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it?" - Phil McDuff

Policy tweaks won’t do it, we need to throw the kitchen sink at this with a total rethink of our relationship to ownership, work and capital

"Connecting to nature is a matter of environmental justice" - Nicki Carter

The climate crisis necessitates deep shifts in our thinking that go beyond the conventional remit of left-wing politics.

"The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal" - Naomi Klein

LIKE SO MANY others, I’ve been energized by the bold moral leadership coming from newly elected members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley in the face of the spiraling climate crisis and the outrageous attacks on unarmed migrants at the border. It has me thinking about the crucial difference between leadership that acts and leadership that talks about acting.

"We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN"

Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC

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"We Are All Climate Refugees Now" - Jeffrey D. Sachs

This summer's fires, droughts, and record-high temperatures should serve as a wake-up call. The longer a narrow and ignorant elite condemns Americans and the rest of humanity to wander aimlessly in the political desert, the more likely it is that we will all end up in a wasteland.

"Climate Kings" - Samuel Miller Mcdonald

How a new generation of authoritarian leaders are using climate change to seize power

"DENIAL BY A DIFFERENT NAME" - Kate Aronoff

It's Time to Admit That Half-Measures Can't Stop Climate Change

"Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show" - Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman

Even before President Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.

AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES CONDEMN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S MOTIVES FOR REPEALING BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT

MESSENGERS - A Running Story of Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante from Yeehaw Donkey on Vimeo.

"Climate Change: Can Today’s Societies Make Big Choices?" - Arun Maira

Innovations in public decision-making and consensus-building require a richness of participation and inclusion, not just tech tools.

"Climate Change Fingerprints in Europe’s Record Hot 2017 Summer "

• The summer of 2017 was marked by extreme heat in Southern Europe.
• Scientists with World Weather Attribution (WWA) conducted a multi-method attribution analysis to assess whether and to what extent human-caused climate change played a role in both the record hot summer (June–August) across the Euro-Mediterranean region and three-day heat waves such as the early August heat wave dubbed Lucifer.
• In many towns and cities across the Euro-Mediterranean region there is now around a 1 in 10 chance every year for heat waves at least as hot as those in the summer of 2017.
• The team found that climate change increased the chances of seeing a summer as hot as 2017 byat least a factor of 10 and a heat wave like Lucifer by at least a factor of four since 1900.
• If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase in the atmosphere, a summer like that of 2017 will be normal in the Euro-Mediterranean region by the middle of the century.

"Trump and the Truth About Climate Change" - Joseph E. Stiglitz

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state on June 1, when it withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. For years, Trump has indulged the strange conspiracy theory that, as he put it in 2012, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.” But this was not the reason Trump advanced for withdrawing the US from the Paris accord. Rather, the agreement, he alleged, was bad for the US and implicitly unfair to it.

"‘Beyond the extreme’: Scientists marvel at ‘increasingly non-natural’ Arctic warmth"

The Arctic is so warm and has been this warm for so long that scientists are struggling to explain it and are in disbelief. The climate of the Arctic is known to oscillate wildly, but scientists say this warmth is so extreme that humans surely have their hands in it and may well be changing how it operates.

"Climat: l'Accord de Paris entre en vigueur, et maintenant ?"

Concorde et félicité : en ce vendredi 4 novembre de l’an 2016, l’Accord de Paris, qui vise à contenir la hausse des températures et lutter contre le dérèglement climatique, entre en vigueur. Trente jours après que la barre des ratifications par 55 pays représentant au moins 55% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre a été atteinte, le 5 octobre. Et moins de onze mois après son adoption à l’issue de la COP21, mi-décembre au Bourget. Une entrée en vigueur fulgurante, un «signal fort à l’ensemble des acteurs de la société: le monde est en train de changer», écrit Ségolène Royal, ministre de l’Environnement et actuelle présidente de la COP21. Qui «montre aux entreprises et aux investisseurs la voie d’un développement sobre en carbone qui est désormais retenue par les Etats à travers le monde.»

"Cambio climático: la alimentación, en la mira" - Laura Rocha

El desperdicio y los modos de producción son analizados por los expertos frente a los escenarios de aumento de la temperatura y cambios en los regímenes pluviales

Retro report - "Nuclear Winter"

"New Report Shows World Heritage Icons at Risk from Climate Change"

Climate change is fast becoming one of the most significant risks for World Heritage sites, according to the report “World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate”, released today by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

“Globally, we need to understand, monitor and address climate change threats to World Heritage sites better,” said Mechtild Rössler, Director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. “As the report’s findings underscore, achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to a level well below 2 degrees Celsius is vitally important to protecting our World Heritage for current and future generations.”

The new report lists 31 natural and cultural World Heritage sites in 29 countries that are vulnerable to increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, intensifying weather events, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons. It documents climate impacts at iconic tourism sites—including Venice, Stonehenge and the Galapagos Islands—and other World Heritage sites such as South Africa’s Cape Floral Kingdom; the port city of Cartagena, Colombia; and Shiretoko National Park in Japan.

“Climate change is affecting World Heritage sites across the globe,” said Adam Markham, lead author of the report and Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Program at UCS. “Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion. Many of the world’s most important coral reefs, including in the islands of New Caledonia in the western Pacific, have suffered unprecedented coral bleaching linked to climate change this year. Climate change could eventually even cause some World Heritage sites to lose their status.”

Because World Heritage sites must have “Outstanding Universal Value,” the report recommends that the World Heritage Committee consider the risk of prospective sites becoming degraded by climate change before adding them to the List.

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"DISOBEDIENCE"

"The Chennai Warning" - Shashi Thardoor

Even as world leaders were meeting in Paris to address climate change, the city of Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, reeled under the onslaught of the heaviest rainfall in 104 years. The city, home to five million people, has virtually shut down, with roads flooded and nearly 5,000 homes under water. More than 450 people have died. Air and rail services have been suspended, power and phone lines have been disrupted, and hospital patients are succumbing as life-support equipment fails. Victims had to be rescued in boats by India’s army and air force.

COP 21 - Largo Chade

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