Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends

August 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, petroleum

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 30, 2023 The climate emergency won’t end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends. “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” Joe Biden February 9, 2020 The March to End Fossil Fuels will take place[…]

Maui’s Deadly Inferno: Disaster Capitalism in Action

August 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, LandGrabs, Neocolonialism, Racism, War on the Earth, Water

by Barry Shephard, published on Socialist Action, August 17, 2023 People around the world viewed with horror the wildfire on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, with the historic city of Lahaina, formerly the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, being burned to the ground, people trying to escape by jumping into the ocean or by car, cars burned, and more.[…]

Colonial-Capitalist Fascism and Its Deadly Outcome

January 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Police Brutality, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Earth, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, January 30, 2023 The State Murder of Tortuguita in Atlanta and Tyre Nichols in Memphis Are Inextricably Linked The cold-blooded assassination of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, Spanish for “Little Turtle,” is a reminder that fascism in the United States cannot be reduced to the political intentions of avowed white nationalists.[…]

The Cries of Pakistan

September 6, 2022 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Corporatism, Corruption, Natural Disaster, Pakistan

by Pippa Bartolotti, September 6, 2022 As the water levels in Pakistan continue to rise, the exhausted people of that land run out of ground to live on. In this case it is not the sea level rise which has concerned us for so long, but the ever-faster rate of glacier melt. It is astounding that Pakistan has 7000 glaciers[…]

Global Warming’s Horrific Devastation of Pakistan

September 1, 2022 UNAC Editor Natural Disaster, Pakistan, Poverty

By Farooq Tariq, published on Socialist Action, August 31, 2022 Summary on Pakistan’s flood situation Incessant monsoon rains and flash floods have devastated Pakistan, affecting millions of people and incurring huge economic losses. The scale of devastation According to the official figure of National Disaster Management Authority, floods have so far claimed the lives of 1350 people. 1 million houses[…]

World Leaders Accused of Delivering Empty Promises on a Sinking Ship

November 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment

by Andrea Germanos, published on Common Dreams, November 9, 2021 With just four days left of the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, climate groups are demanding world leaders urgently change course by rejecting false solutions and committing to stop greenhouse gas emissions at the source to have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. “On the proverbial[…]

500 Organizations Propose Mysteriously Unknowable Climate Solution

November 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Militarism

By David Swanson, published on World Beyond War, October 27, 2021 As in every other context, limiting or even criticizing the US military is off the table. The time has come to change all that. Thank you David for making this point crystal clear. [jb] In a remarkable feat of epistemic magic, 500 environmental and peace organizations and nearly 25,000[…]

World Gathering of Peoples for Our Mother Earth and against the Climate Crisis – Conclusions Document

November 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Agriculture, Bolivia, Environment, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans

by Justine Teba, published on The Red Nation, October 23, 2021 Global Encounter of Peoples in Favor of Mother Earth and Against the Climate Crisis Topic 1. Facing the climate crises structurally from the perspective of the peoples. Topic 2. Urgent calling of Mother Earth to combat the climate crisis. Topic 3. Integral actions to combat the climate crisis and[…]

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[…]

Puerto Rico: Three Years for History

January 11, 2020 UNAC Editor Neocolonialism, Puerto Rico

By José E. Rivera Santana, published on Resumen, January 9, 2020 This comprehensive article on contemporary Puerto Rico was written just before a devastating 6.4 earthquake hit Puerto Rico on January 7 knocking out power to a half-million people and leaving thousands homeless. Trump, however, didn’t even blink as he pushed more resources and military personal towards war against Iran.[…]