Arrested for prostesting against the larget existential threat to the Planet?This is an outcome of Fossil Fuel Capitalism
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Doctors from around the world unite to call for urgent climate action
Doctors from around the world unite to call for urgent climate action
Global health bodies are demanding international governments urgently phase out fossil fuels and fast-track renewable energy as health professionals increasingly see patients suffering from harm caused by climate change.
The world’s leading GP and health bodies, representing more than three million health professionals worldwide, will deliver an open letter on Saturday calling for urgent action against climate change to protect the health of communities.
“We the family doctors, doctors and health professionals of the world call on world leaders to take urgent action to safeguard the health of global populations from the climate crisis,” the open letter reads.
Signatories from 39 leading health bodies, including Australia’s peak body for GPs and rural medicine, say they’re already seeing widespread impacts on human health caused by climate change in their patients.
G20 Big pledge to triple renewables
G20 pledge to triple renewables
JOINT DECLARATION: After months of wrangling, the Indian G20 presidency managed to secure a joint leaders’ declaration this week. The text included a pledge to “pursue and encourage efforts” to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, the Associated Press reported. The global goal, widely understood to mean 11,000 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, is “vital” to keeping 1.5C within reach, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in July. IEA chief Dr Fatih Birol told DeBriefed it was a “good step, but far from enough” (see Spotlight).
Maui County says Hawaiian Electric caused deadly blazes in new lawsuit
Maui County says Hawaiian Electric caused deadly blazes in new lawsuit – The Verge
Maui County says Hawaiian Electric caused deadly blazes in new lawsuit
(https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845581/maui-county-hawaiian-electric-utility-lawsuit-fire)
Ecocide Law could save all Species and Planet Thanks to Polly Higgins
Incredible that dozens of countries are considering making “ecocide” an international atrocity crime with the same legal force as genocide. This is one of my 5 recommended legal reforms that can be key in saving the planet.
Stunning progress by the @EcocideLaw campaign.
More Plantation Disaster Capitalism?
Maui residents say development company took advantage of fire: Plantation Disaster Capitalism:
LAHAINA, Hawaii — A group of farmers, activists and lawyers is rallying behind a top water official who was reassigned after the catastrophic wildfires, saying he has become a scapegoat in the ongoing finger-pointing about how the fires grew out of control so quickly.
Kaleo Manuel, who was a member of the state Commission on Water Resource Management when three wildfires erupted on Maui on Aug. 8, has come under intense scrutiny after a land developer wrote a letter to him accusing the water commission of delaying additional water resources during the blaze.
Many of the financial incentives that stripped the forests of Missouri in 1910 are still present in 2010.
In 1899, the sawmill at Grandin, Missouri, east of the Current River, consumed 70 acres of woodland a day.
In light of this Horace Mann, Founder of Antioch College stated; “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Albert Bates
Climate change: 7 ways the world can cope with heatwaves | World Economic Forum
Climate change: 7 ways the world can cope with heatwaves | World Economic Forum
The UN Secretary-General has warned of ‘global boiling’ as parts of Europe have been engulfed in fire and July 2023 looks likely to be the hottest month on record.
Cities around the world are experimenting with cooling techniques and initiatives, including urban greening and naming heatwaves.
The World Economic Forum’s Global Commission on BiodiverCities has helped develop the Heat Action Platform to provide cities with a roadmap and tools to address extreme heat.
July 2023 is set to be the world’s hottest month ever recorded, with the mean global temperature predicted to be at least 0.2°C above the previous warmest month of July 2019.
It’s really not that difficult now to imagine a world without forests
George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons
It’s really not that difficult now to imagine a world without forests. Amazon is regressing to savanna. Taiga is sinking into melting permafrost. All other forest is either desertifying or burning. EVERYTHING can collapse very quickly from here. #ecology #ClimateCrisis
Necrocapitalism
The big problem with the Capitalism, also referred to as necrocapitalism, is that it is by definition self-destructive.
It is a resource-syphoning system driven by profit and efficiency alone, aimed at maximum utilization of resources to the point of exhaustion.
George Tsakraklides – https://is.gd/TDQWWo
Democracy & Good Governance 