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Capital Blight News #104
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 17, 2016
A supplement to Eco Unionist News:
Lead Stories:
- Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis - By Bill Onasch, Socialist Action, May 15, 2016
- Life and Death in a Time of Rising Shutoffs - By Caitlin Munchick, CounterPunch, May 13, 2016
- Taking on the Sacred Cow of Big “Green” Energy - By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, CounterPunch, May 13, 2016
- The ExxonMobil refinery that exploded in L.A. last year is up and running again - By Aura Bogado, Grist, May 12, 2016
- New BLM Logging Plan Would Generate More Economic Harm than Good - By John Talberth, Center For Sustainable Economy, May 10, 2016
- Mining a Heart of Gold? Slave Wages and Humanitarianism in Africa - By Yves Engler, CounterPunch, May 9, 2016
- Panhandling and Pandering in Our National Parks - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, May 9, 2016
- Orthodox Economics and the Science of Climate Change - By Mariano Torras, Monthly Review, May 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- Client Alert: Law Firms Tell Fossil Fuel Companies They Could Be Next in "ExxonKnew" Probe - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, May 15, 2016
- Think Facts Matter? Try Attending a Friends of Science Event Headlined by Ezra Levant - By James Wilt, DeSmog Canada, May 15, 2016
- Proof That Koch-Backed Professors Are Using Universities To Spread Right-Wing Policies - By Casey Quinlan, Think Progress, May 13, 2016; [related]: Meet the Ayn Rand Enthusiast Whose Private College Empire Reaps a Fortune From the Government - By Sarah Lazare, Alternet, May 9, 2016
- Forecasting Failure - By Greg Muttitt, David Turnbull and Lorne Stockman, Oil Change International, May 12, 2016
- "You Have Been Fooled": AGU Reopens Exxon Sponsorship Review After Stinging Letter From Sen. Whitehouse and Rep. Lieu - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, May 12, 2016
- Coal made its best case against climate change, and lost - By staff, Skeptical Science, May 11, 2016
- Exxon's Lawyer in Climate Science Probe Has History Helping Big Tobacco and NFL Defend Against Health Claims - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, May 10, 2016
- This Election Inspired a John Grisham Novel: Now It Just Got Even Weirder - By Pema Levy, Mother Jones, May 9, 2016
- "We Were Booming and Now We're Dead" — How Nevada's Solar Industry Bright Spot Turned Dark - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, May 9, 2016
- ALEC Appoints New Chair to Climate Denial Task Force - By Jamie Corey, PR Watch, May 6, 2016
Green is the New Red:
- Arrests in Cáceres Assassination Connected to Military, DESA Corporation - By Rick Kearns, Indian Country Today, May 11, 2016
- Honduras: Environmental and Social Justice Warriors Attacked - By COPINH, Earth First! Journal, May 10, 2016
Greenwashers:
- UN Human Rights Council review on Papua New Guinea: “Yet another wake up call that what is happening in PNG is a human rights catastrophe” - By Chris Lang, Redd Monitor, May 13, 2016
- Governor Jerry Brown Has Financial Link to Oakland Coal - By Robert Gammon, Oakland Magazine, May 12, 2016
- NGOs dissatisfied with Swedish Energy Agency response, once again call on the Agency to cancel carbon credit purchase from Green Resources’ monoculture plantations in Uganda - By Chris Lang, Redd Monitor, May 11, 2016
- Oil sponsorship and the creeping privatisation of the arts - By Jo Ram, Red Pepper, May 10, 2016; [related]: How BP Used Public Arts in the UK to Further Oil Plans in Mexico and Australia - By Georgie Johnson, Greenpeace Energy Desk, May 4, 2016; [and]: Will British Museums Reveal Extent of Secret BP Funding? - By Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, May 12, 2016
- The Racist Colonial Roots of Western Forest Conservation: A look into a REDD project in Kenya - By staff, World Rainforest Movement, May 9, 2016; [related]: World Rainforest Movement: “REDD is racist” - By Chris Lang, Redd Monitor, May 10, 2016
- Rio Tinto’s biodiversity offset in Madagascar: How culture and religion are used to enforce restrictions - By staff, World Rainforest Movement, May 9, 2016
- The WWF in DRC: Conservation without people - By staff, World Rainforest Movement, May 9, 2016
- National Parks to Seek Out, Recognize Corporate Funding Under New Plan - By Sam Knight, The District Sentinel, May 9, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Fossil fuel lobbying reaches staggering levels while Fort McMurray burns - By Seble Samuel, Rabble.Ca, May 12, 2016; [related]: Mass Evacuation as ‘Apocalyptic’ Inferno Engulfs Canadian Tar Sands City - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, May 9, 2016; [and]: Tar-ma is a B----!: the Real Tragedy of Fort McMurray - By Julian Vigo, CounterPunch, May 9, 2016
- How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames - By Carol Linnitt, DeSmog Canada, May 10, 2016
- Documents Show Massive Regulatory Failures at L.A. Gas Storage Facility - By Patrick Sullivan, Center for Biological Diversity, May 10, 2016
- How climate change and failed agricultural policies have contributed to conflict in Syria - By Megan Perry, Sustainable Food Trust, May 6, 2016
Other News:
- Privatize public lands? Start with grazing fees - By Andrew Gulliford, High Country News, May 10, 2016
- Editorial: The renewed debates on sharing, inequality and the limits to growth - By staff, Share The World's Resources, May 5, 2016
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