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Richard Smith on China's Engine of Environmental Collapse

System Change Not Climate Change, YouTube, August 31, 2020

Shanghai underwater with 4 degrees of warming

China presents a climate crisis paradox. It leads the world in photovoltaic and wind power production and installed capacity of both, and President Xi Jinping says he wants to remake China as an “ecological civilization.” Yet it’s also the world's largest CO2 emitter by far and the government is slashing funding for renewables while ramping up spending on more coal-fired power plants.

Why it’s time to think about human extinction

Dr David Suzuki, Kerwin Rae Business Coach Sydney Australia, January 28, 2019

Australian podcaster Kerwin Rae interviews Dr. David Suzuki, the popular Canadian science broadcaster, educator, and environmental activist. Rae comments that Dr. Suzuki "hits us with some home truths about what our future will look like if we continue to live the way we have been. What will life be like for our children and grandchildren? Can the damage we’ve done to the planet be reversed? Is extinction of the human race imminent?

Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn Discuss How to Get The World We Want

Jeremy Crobyn and Naomi Klein, ICH, July 16, 2017

July 14, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Naomi Klein: I’m Naomi Klein, reporting for The Intercept, and I’m here in London at the Houses of Parliament with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, three weeks after the Labour Party in an historic election won many, many more seats than anybody predicted – except for some of the people in this room, who saw it coming.

Climate change and capitalism

Milo Wolf, Labor Beat, April 29, 2015

The catastrophic social changes threatened by global climate change looms over humanity’s future. In Sept. 2014, international climate talks were again scheduled, this time in New York City under the auspices of the U.N. As demonstrated before and since, in cities like Kyoto, Copenhagen, Durban, Doha and Lima, these talks proposed solutions that were slow and toothless at best, and do-nothing avenues for free market stop-gap proposals at worst.

US-China climate accord is neither "historic" nor a "landmark"

Janet Redman and Minqi Li, The Real News, November 15, 2014

While it is important for China and the US, the two largest CO2 emitters, to walk hand in hand in cooperation, the agreement lacks "all of the above strategies" required to achieve the necessary reductions, says Janet Redman of IPS and Professor Minqi Li of the University of Utah

Climate justice movement: Moment Is now to 'change everything'

Jon Queally, Common Dreams, July 3, 2014

In anticipation of an upcoming climate summit of world leaders scheduled for New York City at the end of this summer, advocates of bold and transformative action to curb global emissions and avert the worst impacts of global warming are both speaking out andreadying action.

New EPA rules are a boon for fossil fuel industry

Bob Kincaid and Cathy Kunkel, Real News Network, June 16, 2014

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Stopping global warming: Three steps and a vision

Jonathan Neale, Climate & Capitalism, June 16, 2014

We know what has to be done to stop climate change. We also know why the ruling class refuses to take decisive action. We need a total break from thirty years of neo-liberalism and the ideology of the market. And we need a vision of a world of human solidarity.

Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global Warming: Change the World, sets out what needs to be done — and what socialists must do to make it happen.

Article and Video: Can Crossfire have a climate change debate without climate change denial?

Peter Hart, FAIR, May 12, 2014

The CNN left/right debate show Crossfire was off for a while last month, apparently because there's no way to "debate" the search for a missing plane. The show returned this week, and Tuesday's show (5/6/14) illustrated another issue that should be considered beyond the realm of the "both sides" TV debate: climate change.

Reverend Billy vs the Robobee

SCNCC, May 5, 2014

Performance artist Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir staged an exorcism recently in the Robobee lab at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), The Choir dressed up as queen bees and sang a song in honor of the threatened Honey Bee. With its capacity for artificial pollination, the Robobee could replace the Honey Bee, which is facing extinction.

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