by Roger Herried
and Cecile Pineda
Now that the world
is burning, Trump gave the G-7 Summit the cold shoulder, and the DNC has killed a resolution allowing a multi-candidate
climate forum, it’s past time to wake up. And with all the drama coming
out of D.C. this past week, the media is every bit as culpable as our very own
Nero with its failure to alert the US public to the alarming growth of global wildfires.
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| Amazon burns |
South America is
burning before our eyes, yet we have no memory of the Siberian or Canadian
fires that came just weeks ago. Not to mention California, which had its
worst fire season ever last year with impacts going far beyond poor air quality
or PG&E bankruptcy.
Everyone needs to
wake up that the growing climate crisis could collapse the global economy and soon. The 4 maps below
are current this year, with the last 10 days showing massive wildfires in
Brazil (113,000) and Africa with over
300,000 (but Africa seems not to be on any European or U.S. maps) with nearly 3 million wildfires reported
globally. The bottom chart shows the dramatic increase in annual wildfires
around the world.
A Guardian piece published
Aug. 22, which included a devastating image of all current fires world-wide, terrified
Europe's leaders. But no matter: the U.S. has dramatically increased i fossil
fuel production on a scale that outstrips the rest of
the world! and this week Trump
tried to buy Greenland.
But, as Popular
Resistance points out, Amazonian fires are as much a product of runaway
global warming, including drought and intense storms, as they are of unfettered
exploitation for profit under Bolsonaro’s program of “development” for the
Amazon: farming and especially cattle ranching. What it comes to essentially is
that the fire in the barbecue under that “burgher” that you simply must have
has now spread to encircle the globe.
The choice is ours:
more meat, more fires, more driving, more fires, more flying, more fires, and
more wars and more agribusiness, more fires. What checks to U.S. hegemony and
what inconveniencies are we prepared to accept if we want to remain inhabitants
of our charred, once blue/green planet?
For further
reading, below is a list of relevant articles:
And this year is
set to be worse:
Investigate how you can plant
a tree at
Demand #45 take action on
climate change before it’s too late at
The U.S. military is the
greatest consumer (93%) of U.S. fossil fuels. Demand answers on endless war at
Message General Motors to
stand up to #45’s reckless clean car rollbacks at
Sign petition urging Army
Corps of Engineers from quietly removing the report of 2005 New Orleans levee
failure from its government website at
On national toilet paper day (you heard that right) let Amazon customers know that buying Charmin TP is bad for the forest and the climate at
https://www.stand.earth/latest/forest-conservation/charmin-toilet-paper/issue-tissue-sustainability-scorecard-flunks-charmin and
https://www.stand.earth/page/forest-conservation/charmin-toilet-paper/tell-charmin-stop-flushing-forests-down-toilet
Drop charges against Venezuela Embassy protectors at
https://defendembassyprotectors.org/home/
New 2020 poll shows Sanders and Warren (what a double ticket!) tied for first place as Biden drops 13 points.
Many U.S. municipalities
citing aesthetics and serious health concerns, are wrestling with the FCC and
telecoms over 5 G technology.
Extinction Rebellion staged a
short notice protest outside London’s Brazilian Embassy over Amazon Rainforest
wild fires.
Multiple groups, led by Southern Poverty Law Center file lawsuit highlighting
abusive isolation, inadequate medical and mental health care, denial of
accommodations and discrimination against detained immigrants with
disabilities.
Community Defense brigades to
defend neighbors when threatened by ICE.
Conservation groups blast draft Forest Service rule gutting bedrock environmental law.
Oppositon to 5 G small cell deployment spreads across the U.S.
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