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The Daily Climate, April 7, 2021
Articles include: Gretta Thunberg; racism; green goals and the power grid; old batteries & electric vehicles; outdated rainfall data; Canadian coal mine; sea meadows; Chevron climate goals; Antarctic ice shelves collapse; Florida & sea level rise.
Youth activists
CBC discusses 2 activist-related articles:
- Teenage British activist stages climate protest on Arctic ice floe. 18-year-old stages the most northerly protest in a series of youth strikes worldwide. Like many of her generation, Mya-Rose Craig feels strongly that adults have failed to take the urgent action needed to tackle global warming and so she has headed to the Arctic Ocean to protest. Armed with a placard reading “Youth Strike for Climate,” the 18-year-old British activist is staging the most northerly protest in a series of youth strikes worldwide. The strikes, made famous by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, are resuming after a lull caused by the global coronavirus pandemic to draw public attention back to the threat posed by climate change.
- Ottawa trying to toss out climate lawsuit from youth activists. While the federal government restated its commitment to fighting climate change in Wednesday’s throne speech, CBC has learned Ottawa has also urged a judge to throw out a case brought by a group of young Canadians claiming their right to a safe, stable climate has been breached. The case, La Rose et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen, was initially filed on Oct. 25, 2019, and has yet to be argued in federal court. It involves 15 youths and teenagers from across Canada who are making a relatively novel legal argument — that their rights to life, liberty, security and equality are being violated because Ottawa has not done enough to protect against climate change.
Tucson Opinion: Climate change is part of every problem we face
Tucson discusses why climate change is part of every problem we face.
In September 2019, Greta Thunberg was passionately reminding the world that our house is on fire and we should act like it.
In the year that has passed since Thunberg’s speech, we have experienced multiple crises and disasters on many fronts, the consequences of years of inaction on climate change. A pandemic; civil protests against longstanding inequities, racism, and violence; more frequent and stronger hurricanes (the recent hurricane Laura packed record-tying winds at 150 mph at landfall); and the most monstrous wildfires we have seen in recorded history, are all happening now.
Activist Greta Thunberg
Politico discusses Greta Thunberg’s climate movement targets Angela Merkel. Climate strikers are planning for a wave of demonstrations next month.
The pandemic has hobbled the weekly student protests that made Greta Thunberg and other campaigners a global phenomenon — so they’re now hitting up politicians in person. German Chancellor Angela Merkel got a firsthand taste of that on Thursday, when Thunberg and three other youth activists met with her for 90 minutes to press for more aggressive German leadership on climate change. Campaigners like Thunberg have met top politicians in the past — but now it’s their main venue for staying in the public eye.
Special Issue: How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis
Wired discusses how we will solve the Climate Crisis. We only have one Earth. And we have the technology to save it.
NOT LONG AGO, in more innocent times, I was driving with my three sons back from trying to ski on a mountain that doesn’t really have snow anymore, and we were talking about climate change. This was before the pandemic, and before our conversations shifted to discussions of what viruses are and why soap, miraculously, can kill them.
The kids are 11, 9, and 6, and they’re worried about the present and upset about the future, as they should be. They know that their adult years will be spent in a world of raging fires, flash floods, and mass extinction. They love Greta and resent their elders. The future feels different and vaster when the actuarial tables give you 80 years to go, not 40.
It’s Important to Keep Talking About Climate Change Now
Outside Online discusses the importance of talking about climate change now. Is it tone-deaf to talk about climate right now? Or is this an opportunity to tackle major global problems in tandem?
On Tuesday I woke up to an email in my inbox: “We’re thrilled to hear you’ve signed up for Sunrise School’s Green New Deal & Coronavirus crash course!”
While stress-scrolling through the internet the day before, looking for signs of hope amid the pandemic news, I’d registered for Sunrise Movement’s webinar series about the overlap between climate organizing and the novel coronavirus. The youth-led group is known for organizing climate actions in the U.S. in solidarity with Greta Thunberg’s international strikes; but when the pandemic struck, it pivoted to address the burgeoning global health crisis.
Daily Climate, March 26, 2020
This week’s The Daily Climate articles include:
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Greta Thunberg: How she became a leader of the global climate movement
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Australia’s record heat means another blow to Great Barrier Reef
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EPA, citing coronavirus, drastically relaxes rules for polluters
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Trump’s environmental rollbacks find opposition within: Staff scientists
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Fossil fuel industry looks to profit-making plastics to curb losses
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Shrinking ozone hole, climate change are causing atmospheric “tug of war”
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Food and climate – African countries must get smarter with their agriculture
Greta wasn’t the first to demand climate action. Meet more young activists.
National Geographic discusses young activists. Greta wasn’t the first to demand climate action. Meet more young activists. In what they see as a battle for their future, youths are taking action and demanding their elders do more to protect the planet.
Their photos often appear side by side, like bookends framing the long campaign by young people to persuade adults to take significant steps to fight climate change. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen activist, is the latest child to sound the alarm. Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the daughter of an environmental scientist in Vancouver, Canada, came first.
In 1992, when Severn was 12, she traveled with three other young activists to the United Nations climate conference in Rio de Janeiro. The science of global warming had just begun to resonate. The UN had created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, now the leading authority on climate science, just four years earlier, and world leaders weren’t accustomed to listening to children lecture them.
Meaningless or impactful? Climate community debates 2050 goals
The Christian Science Monitor discusses the world’s climate goals for 2050. In order to keep global warming to a limit of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, the European Commission proposes carbon emissions must reach net zero by 2050. Climate activists called that goal “giving up,” saying more needs to be done sooner.
When the European Commission unveiled a draft law this week that would make binding a target to cut the bloc’s planet-warming emissions to “net zero” by 2050, it exposed a sharp divide among supporters of climate action.
While that increasingly popular goal might sound ambitious, young activists, including Greta Thunberg, have called it “giving up.”
“Distant net-zero emission targets will mean absolutely nothing … if high emissions continue like now even for a few years,” 34 school climate strikers from European nations wrote in an open letter.