A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries reported in a new study of the disintegrating glacier.
Source: Huge cavity in Antarctic glacier signals rapid decay — ScienceDaily
The rise of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has put the environment and human rights in peril.
John Christy has advocated for the repeal of regulations on greenhouse gas emissions
Source: Scientist Who Rejects Warming Is Named to EPA Advisory Board – Scientific American
“Without protecting net neutrality,” broadband providers “will control the internet experiences of everyone. And that cannot be what happens.”
The Yellow Vests movement has faced shocking police violence. And it’s not just from a few bad apples: it’s part of President Macron’s strategy to silence protest.
Source: Rubber-Bullet Liberalism
universal and working class consciousness…//On the Birth of Global Green Consciousness
We have been critical of marxism but wary of critiquing its key focus on the working class: it is a brilliant strategic thought one challenges to one’s theoretical peril. And yet we have also considered a critical stance, given as noted, its failure to really emerge as expected. The working class has never quite been revolutionary, not surprising since it is an abstraction not a person and has no real ‘essence’ as do people, and the idea reintroduces class domination upside down just as a socialist end point wishes to abolish class. Continue reading universal and working class consciousness…//On the Birth of Global Green Consciousness
New evidence from the cliffsides of Australia suggests that Earth’s largest extinction event — a volcanic cataclysm occurring roughly 252 million years ago — extinguished plant life long before many animal counterparts.
Source: Earth’s largest extinction event likely took plants first — ScienceDaily
TRNN Replay: Research on the connection between extreme weather – such as the severe cold snap that hit the US Northeast – and global warming, shows that these are intimately connected, despite what climate deniers such as President Trump say
Source: Global Warming and Extreme Cold: How One Leads to the Other
Environmental activists received a reality check when newly empowered Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed aside demands for an environmental economic transition program— a Green New Deal, in favor of reviving a toothless committee to ‘study’ the problem. A transition program is needed to mitigate the economic dislocations that will result from resolving the multiple environmental crises currently underway. More
Primary school children tell politicians: “I’ll do my homework when you do yours.”
Source: ‘The Climate Is a Disaster’: Fourth Week of Student-Led Strike as Tens of Thousands March in Belgium
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