• Climate triple whammy boosted risk of LA fires, study shows
• Watchdog groups anticipate ‘an all-out war on science and scientists’ by the Trump administration
• ‘Perfect rat storm’: urban rodent numbers soar as the climate heats, study finds
• USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
• Climate change is disrupting food systems across Latin America, UN report says
• Fire chiefs warn UK is not prepared for climate crisis impacts
• Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests
• Ocean-surface warming has more than quadrupled since the late-1980s, study shows
• Climate change extinctions in Australia predicted to be among the highest globally
• Spanish fishers in Galicia report ‘catastrophic’ collapse in shellfish stocks
• Russia sees rapid 3°C winter temperature increase over past 50 years
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.
Removing capitalism is like planting trees. It’s not going to undo the climate predicament we’re in, but we should do it for lots of other good reasons.
And yet we elected the most capitalist capitalists to ever capitalism. We pretty much screwed the pooch here.