Environment

Mexico Ousts Glyphosate and GM Corn

January 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Public Health, Resistance

from Pesticide Action Network, January 2021 In a huge win for small farmers and Native communities, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador closed out 2020 by issuing a decree that will phase out the use of the herbicide glyphosate and genetically modified (GM) corn in the country by 2024. Glyphosate on the chopping block This official decree comes after the[…]

Rocket Launch Impacts: Ozone Depletion & Crowded Orbits

January 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, December 31, 2020 As the number of space launches increase, rocket engine emissions grow in proportion. Rocket engine exhaust contains gases and particles that can affect Earth’s climate and ozone layer. These emissions historically have been assumed to be not much of a threat to the global environment because the space industry was[…]

The Capitalist System is as Unprepared for Climate Change as it is for Covid-19

November 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Canada, Climate Change, Environment, Tar Sands Pipleline, Toxic Chemicals

by Alison Bodine, published in Fire This Time Newsletter, July/August, 2020 On June 5, 2020, Alison Bodine spoke on behalf of the Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice at an international climate justice Webinar hosted by the Venezuela Ecology Movement (MEVEN) and Misión Nevado, a Social Mission in Venezuela dedicated to the protection of animals. The Webinar was entitled,[…]

Israeli Occupation of Palestine is Devastating the Natural Environment

October 24, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Israel-Palestine

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has devastated the environment… uprooted native trees… imposed polluting industries… prevented sustainable development… caused loss of biodiversity… By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan, reposted from Science for the People Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns,[…]

Top Poisoner of Pacific Is U.S. Military

October 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Military vs The Environment, Toxic Chemicals

by David Swanson, published on World Beyond War, October 12, 2020 “We’re number one!” The United States famously fails to actually lead the world in anything desirable, but it does lead the world in many things, and one of them turns out to be the poisoning of the Pacific and its islands. And by the United States, I mean the[…]

People strike worldwide for the environment

October 9, 2020 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Protest

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, October 1, 2020 Over 3,334 protests against the climate crisis — marches, school walkouts, blockaded bridges and roads, swarms of small boats and canoes impeding huge coal haulers — occurred in 150 countries on Sept. 25. These protests were part of Fridays for the Future, which began with massive turnouts a year ago[…]

American Environmentalism’s Racist Roots Have Shaped Global Thinking About Conservation

September 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Indigenous peoples, Racism

by Prakash Kashwan, published on Consortium News, September 3, 2020 (originally published on The Conversation) The United States is having a long-overdue national reckoning with racism. From criminal justice to pro sports to pop culture, Americans increasingly are recognizing how racist ideas have influenced virtually every sphere of life in this country. This includes the environmental movement. Recently the Sierra[…]

U.S. ‘War Games’ Threaten COVID Spread in Hawaii

August 2, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Militarism, Poisoning the Environment, Public Health

by Quell Nessumo, published on Workers World, July 29, 2020 Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the U.S. military has no plans to cancel RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific Exercise), the largest international military exercise in the world. Beginning in 1971, and held every two years in June and July off the coast of Hawaii, RIMPAC is a show of imperialist[…]

Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement

July 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Organizing

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, July 19, 2020 While the climate justice movement has been winning important victories, stopping and slowing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and putting the future of fossil fuels in doubt, the political system, long connected to the fossil fuel industry, is still fighting the urgently needed transition to clean[…]

‘Monumental Victory’: Court-Ordered Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline

July 11, 2020 UNAC Editor DAPL, Indigenous peoples

by Jessica Corbett, published on Common Dreams, July 6, 2020 A U.S. district court on Monday delivered a major win to local Indigenous organizers and climate activists—and a significant blow to the fossil fuel industry and the Trump administration—by ordering the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to be shut down and emptied of oil by Aug. 5 while federal regulators conduct an environmental review[…]