Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify
US Senate hearing reviewed report showing sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’
PRESERVE: Reconciliation & Sustainability... or Ecocide
Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining - The New York Times
The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope.
Degrowth Campaigns
Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves
Swiss women win landmark climate case in European human rights court | AP News
Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese students aimed at forcing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change
This. Capitalism solving climate change is a contradiction in terms. If they could have, they would have already. And they could have. The issue is they don't *want to solve these issues. It's antithetical to the pursuit of converting the living to the dead to turn a profit, of free market pursuits, of planet and people as an infinitely exploitable *resource, rather than living beings.
Capitalism is Incompatible: Denial & Greenwashing#capitalism#climate & sustainability#1 to read & comment
Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up
The real and complicated story of Ireland's past is a lot more interesting than Irish Americans make it out to be
Indigenous Issues
Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures : r/nottheonion
The Mutant Wolves of Chernobyl Have Evolved to Survive Cancer
In the shadow of nuclear disaster, these canines show remarkable resilience to the deadly disease.
Ecocide & Nature Rights
A story from Alex Mell-Taylor on Medium
When protecting the environment gets ugly
Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Hacker News
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Reconciliation & Owning Settler
How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.
The Cost of Freeing Drinking Water from ‘Forever Chemicals’
The EPA is set to limit PFAS in drinking water to barely detectable levels. Can water utilities meet the standard?
Every decision is a #climate decision: Here’s why
'We need all of these solutions, as much as possible, as soon as possible: and there’s good reason to speed things up.' #wef24
Canada led efforts to weaken original UN Indigenous rights declaration | CBC News
The Chrétien Liberal government led efforts to weaken the original draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, working secretly with Australia to develop a watered-down, state-friendly substitute in the early 2000s, newly released documents show.
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Life in a 'degrowth' economy, and why you might actually enjoy it
What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy…