Environment

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[…]

The U.S. Military is the World’s Biggest Climate Destroyer

July 1, 2020 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Environment

By Alison Bodine, published on Fire This Time Newsletter, June, 2020 Talk by Alison Bodine at the United National Antiwar Coalition National Conference held from February 21-23, 2020, at the People’s Forum in New York City. To begin, I hope everyone has been able to see on of actions across Canada in solidarity with the people of Wet’suwet’en media and[…]

Climate Change and COVID-19 on Earth Day 2020

April 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Connecting the Dots, Environment, Toxic Chemicals

By Betsey Piette posted on Workers World, April 16, 2020 If there is a silver lining to be found in the horrific coronavirus pandemic, it may be that major industrial countries are reporting unprecedented drops in air pollution levels. This is due to measures taken to stem the spread of COVID-19, including widespread factory shutdowns and radically reduced vehicular and[…]

Forever Chemicals

March 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Toxic Chemicals

by Robert Hunziker, published in CounterCurrents, February 29, 2020 Throughout the history of Western Civilization there are times,but only on rare occasions, when people en masse feel compelled to run into the streets, similar to the storming of the Bastille 1789,screaming at the top of their lungs: “Stop the Madness!” Now is one of those times, as only recently Feb[…]

In Defence of Mother Earth System Change, Not Climate Change! We Have a Right to Life!

December 12, 2019 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Resistance, Tar Sands Pipleline

By Alison Bodine, published in Fire This Time, November, 2019 Issue “We made a decision to move forward on the pipeline because it was in the interest of Canada to do so because the environment and the economy need to go together. We will be continuing with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.” – Prime Minister elect Justin Trudeau, during his[…]

Capitalism versus Life on Earth

December 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Environment

by Ian Angus, published on Socialist Action, December 4, 2019 Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus spoke at an educational conference organized by Socialist Action Canada in Toronto, on November 16, 2019. His talk has been edited for publication. These sentences are from a recent report on the consequences of climate change: “Sea level rise, changes in water and food[…]

An “Inconvenient Truth” that Al Gore Missed

December 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Militarism, Poisoning the Environment

By Michael Eisenscher In a recent interview with The Real News , actor and activist John Cusack made a simple but profoundly important point: “[Y]ou can’t separate climate justice and militarism’, he said, ”… because the drones are going to follow the fresh water, and the soldiers are going to protect the oil, and then if things go on as[…]