Science and Technology : Black Lives Matter is right to say Climate Change is a Race Issue

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Green New Deal enlists people of color


https://www.yahoo.com/news/green-new-deal-enlists-people-of-color-090000236.html
... newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said during a climate change town-hall event that the Green New Deal, the ambitious environmental plan to cut the country’s carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, was “going to be the Great Society, the moonshot, the civil rights movement of our generation.”

Kadia Tubman
Reporter
Yahoo News

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Governments could become indifferent to climate disaster victims, expert warns

Governments could become indifferent to climate disaster victims, expert warns

The indifference of US politicians to the devastation of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria was horrifying, says David Wallace-WellsA woman and baby at their makeshift home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, under reconstruction, in December 2017, weeks after Hurricane Maria. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty...

www.yahoo.com

As global heating fuels more powerful hurricanes, as well as rising sea levels, drought and wildfires, more people around the world will be in need of assistance at a time when populist, nationalist leaders have gained prominence in several countries including the US, where Donald Trump gained infamy in Puerto Rico for visiting the island and throwing paper towels at hurricane survivors.

Oliver Milman in New York
The Guardian

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Let the rich suffer some too!



FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
California’s massive power outages show climate change is coming for everyone, even the rich

California’s massive power outages show climate change is coming for everyone, even the rich

But it's the poor that will suffer most.

qz.com

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The 2018 fire season amounted to 15% of California’s total emissions

By Michael J. Coren

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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These African countries are among the world’s worst hit by climate change​

These African countries are among the world’s worst hit by climate change

Five African countries: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Sudan, and Niger, are among the world’s top 10 nations to be the worst affected by climate change through disruptions to productivity in key economic sectors including agriculture, roads, dams, and other infrastructure according to the...

finance.yahoo.com

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Tawanda Karombo

These African countries are among the world’s worst hit by climate change

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[Discerning]

There will be water wars on continents that suffer from water shortages.

Egypt and Sudan have resumed talks with Ethiopia over the latter's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The dam's reservoir began filling with Upper Nile River water six months ago.

But it's a bitter dispute.

Water wars: How conflicts over resources are set to rise amid climate change

Conserving forests, wetlands and watersheds, including those around cities, can help absorb rainfall, helping stem crop losses from flooding and drought.

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