Climate Crisis Will Force a New American Migration as Much of US Becomes Uninhabitable

August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by the dim light of their cellphones. By midmonth, the state had recorded possibly the hottest temperature ever measured on earth — 130 degrees in Death Valley — and an otherworldly storm of lightning had cracked open the sky.

Source: Climate Crisis Will Force a New American Migration as Much of US Becomes Uninhabitable | Portside

“Colonizing the Atmosphere”: How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis

New analysis finds the Global North is responsible for 92% of all excess global carbon dioxide emissions, while the Global South bears the brunt of the devastation.

Source: “Colonizing the Atmosphere”: How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis – In These Times

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Governments around the world have declared a #ClimateEmergency.

But we're still not seeing the #ClimateAction to match.

This needs to change NOW.https://t.co/E5aomnILnB @GretaThunberg

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After Two Years of School Strikes, The World is Still in a State of Climate Crisis Denial

On Thursday 20 August, it will be exactly two years since the first school strike for the climate took place. Looking back, a lot has happened. Many millions have taken to the streets to join the decades-long fight for climate and environmental justice. And on 28 November 2019, the European parliament declared a “climate and environmental emergency”.

Source: After Two Years of School Strikes, The World is Still in a State of Climate Crisis Denial | Portside

Climate Crisis: Historic Arizona Wildfires May Worsen COVID-19

Over 400,000 acres of wildfires burn in Arizona in a devastating opening to Southwest’s wildfire season. And neighboring California has approved more fracking in a 97% Latino town as oil tankers spew pollution.

Source: Climate Crisis: Historic Arizona Wildfires May Worsen COVID-19

Pandemic 2.0: Amazon Deforestation Could Unleash A Wave Of Pandemics Sooner Than We Think

Brazil’s government simultaneously risks triggering the next pandemic, endangers its indigenous people, and accelerates the climate crisis by scaling up deforestation of the Amazon.

Source: Pandemic 2.0: Amazon Deforestation Could Unleash A Wave Of Pandemics Sooner Than We Think

Climate Crisis: Black Lives Matter, Looting Puerto Rico, And California’s Environmental Racism

This week the climate justice movement says Black Lives Matter, disaster capitalists are still looting Puerto Rico, and California is neglecting to fix the environmental racism of its oil infrastructure.

Source: Climate Crisis: Black Lives Matter, Looting Puerto Rico, And California’s Environmental Racism

Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and Ecosocialist Solutions | System Change Not Climate Change

The climate crisis is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. At the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, we are headed for 4°C to 7°C of warming above pre-industrial global averages within the lifetimes of young people. Temperature increases in this range would lead to a hothouse planet with devastating extreme weather events, and make most if not all of our planet

Source: Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and Ecosocialist Solutions | System Change Not Climate Change

The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable

Commentators like to point to Wuhan’s “wet markets” as the source of the pandemic, but COVID-19 is the result of a much larger, global phenomenon of environmental degradation. Combatting both means putting the politics of food production and land use at the very heart of our socialist project.

Source: The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable

Climate Crisis: EU Green Stimulus, Meat Apocalypse, Public Lands, Climate Music

In this week’s Climate Crisis News Roundup, COVID-19 has meat production in crisis, but what’s its climate impact? And a new report says President Trump has the worst public lands protection record in history, while the EU and Spain will soon release a green economic stimulus plan.

Source: Climate Crisis: EU Green Stimulus, Meat Apocalypse, Public Lands, Climate Music