Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss what we can expect from the UN’s upcoming COP27 climate summit in November.
Source: Chomsky and Pollin: Pushing a Viable Climate Project Around COP27
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Ahead of COP27, Big Oil Climate Denial More Potent Than Ever
A Big Oil boss predicted that fossil fuels are “going to run the world tomorrow and five years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now.”
Source: Opinion | Ahead of COP27, Big Oil Climate Denial More Potent Than Ever | Andy Rowell
Egypt silenced climate experts’ voices before hosting Cop27, HRW says
Failure to address country’s abuses will obstruct rollout of meaningful climate action, director of Human Rights Watch says
Source: Egypt silenced climate experts’ voices before hosting Cop27, HRW says | Cop27 | The Guardian
Real Climate Action Isn’t at COP-27, but It is in a Thousand Rebellious Communities
Fossil gas is a threat to humanity and the Earth at both the largest and smallest scales. A federation of state-based, citizen-funded public interest research groups, PIRG, reports that gas leaks across the US from 2010 through 2021 led to the release of 26.6 billion cubic feet of methane, with a global-warming impact equivalent to more than 2.4 million internal-combustion vehicles driven for a year.
COP27 Summit in Egypt’s Police State Creates Moral Crisis for Climate Movement
The ongoing hunger strike of Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah forcefully reminds us that there can be no meaningful climate action without political freedom.
Source: COP27 Summit in Egypt’s Police State Creates Moral Crisis for Climate Movement
Egypt, among Countries most Threatened by Climate Emergency, Cripples Environmental Groups
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Egyptian government has severely curtailed environmental groups’ ability to carry out independent policy, …
Source: Egypt, among Countries most Threatened by Climate Emergency, Cripples Environmental Groups
1848+: The End(s) of History 