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FRANÇOIS RUFFIN, LEUR ÉCOLOGIE ET LA NÔTRE. Comme tout le monde Francois RUFFIN se repeint en vert et part en guerre pour le climat.

FRANÇOIS RUFFIN, LEUR ÉCOLOGIE ET LA NÔTRE

Tous ensemble, nous sommes sur le même bateau, riches, pauvres, prolétaires et actionnaires, chouette, alors ! Finie la guerre des classes ! Macron et ses copains se frottent les mains. Planète : Greta Thunberg refuse un prix pour l’environnement. Gullah Geechee worry their unique island culture won’t survive climate change. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Gullah Geechee worry their unique island culture won’t survive climate change

The 2019 hurricane season, which has already seen parts of Texas flooded and the Bahamas devastated, is prompting existential angst for a unique U.S. culture that fears being torn asunder by the climate crisis. Fiercer storms and the encroaching seas are gnawing away at the Gullah Geechee nation, a distinct cultural group that historically dwelt on a 425-mile stretch of coastline from Jacksonville, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida. Think rural America doesn’t care about the climate? Think again. Anna Claussen grew up on a family farm 20 miles outside of Benson, Minnesota, a town of just over 3,000 souls.

Think rural America doesn’t care about the climate? Think again.

She left the farm when she was 18 to pursue her undergraduate degree on the outskirts of Minneapolis, and has lived in the city since. Making that leap, from rural to urban, it didn’t take her long to notice the stereotypes. Claussen’s family story is unusual: While family farms dwindle due to the rise of industrialized agriculture, a challenging financial climate, and extreme weather events, her parents and two of her three brothers have stayed put. They steward the land, show up for their neighbors, and make a multitude of challenging decisions to do best by the farm, their family, and the future. Pourquoi la disparition des vers de terre serait une catastrophe pour la planète. Une étude montre que les vers de terre sont menacés par les changements climatiques.

Pourquoi la disparition des vers de terre serait une catastrophe pour la planète

Or, ces petits êtres jouent un rôle primordial dans le fonctionnement de la nature. Ils sont « de véritables ingénieurs », indique le chercheur Raphaël Marichal. Supreme Court permits Baltimore suit against energy companies to continue. This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Supreme Court permits Baltimore suit against energy companies to continue

A court case between the city of Baltimore and a group of energy companies will be permitted to continue after the Supreme Court earlier this week rejected the latter’s attempt to freeze the case. The litigation, which the city initiated in 2018, alleges that the energy companies are liable “for their direct emissions of greenhouse gases” and the damages they’ve caused the city and its residents. No explanation accompanied the Supreme Court rejection, but Baltimore is considering it a victory, since its case against companies including BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Citgo can now continue. Though the ultimate decision of where the case should be heard may end up being more significant than the high court ruling.

The energy companies’ request to halt the case is part of their broader legal fight to move the case from state to federal court. House Democrats set to introduce first-of-its-kind climate refugee bill. This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

House Democrats set to introduce first-of-its-kind climate refugee bill

House Democrats are set to introduce the first major piece of legislation to establish protections for migrants displaced by climate change, ramping up a push for a long-overdue framework for how the United States should respond to a crisis already unfolding on its shores. The bill, called the Climate Displaced Persons Act, would create a federal program separate from the existing refugee program to take in a minimum of 50,000 climate migrants starting next year. These 100 Companies Cause 71% Of Emissions. Demand Immediate Changes Before It's Too Late! Undefined Afghanistan Aland Islands Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra.

These 100 Companies Cause 71% Of Emissions. Demand Immediate Changes Before It's Too Late!

CLIMAT : LA FRANCE ATTAQUÉE EN JUSTICE. Synthese cahier reco politiques alim climat sante 2019 4p. Investors are betting billions on carbontech. Will it pay off? Les géants du pétrole ont dépensé 250 millions en lobbying européen, selon les ONG - 20minutes. Les cinq plus grandes compagnies pétrolières privées mondiales, ou des représentants, ont dépensé plus de 250 millions d’euros depuis 2010 en lobbying auprès de l’Union européenne, affirment jeudi des ONG de défense de l'environnement.

Les géants du pétrole ont dépensé 250 millions en lobbying européen, selon les ONG - 20minutes

Les « majors » BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell et Total et des organisations représentant le secteur des énergies fossiles ont eu au moins 327 réunions avec des responsables de la Commission européenne depuis que Jean-Claude Juncker en a pris la présidence en 2014, soit plus d’une par semaine, selon elles. Tout pour retarder la transition écologique ? Ces chiffres sont avancés dans une étude des ONG Corporate Europe Observatory,Food and Water Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe et Greenpeace EU, basée sur une compilation des déclarations des compagnies et le « registre de transparence » dans lequel sont répertoriées les interventions des groupes d’intérêt et lobbies auprès des institutions européennes. Les majors disent être dans les clous. La croissance économique, un mythe à détruire. Pourquoi le capital est-il rémunéré ?

La croissance économique, un mythe à détruire

Qu’est-ce que le « lien de subordination » entre un salarié et son employeur ? Leaving trees alone might be better than planting new ones. This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Leaving trees alone might be better than planting new ones

William Moomaw has had a distinguished career as a physical chemist and environmental scientist, helping found the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and serving as lead author on five reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climat : l'éco-anxiété est-elle le nouveau mal du siècle ? New study pinpoints the places most at risk on a warming planet. As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. People living in South Asia and Africa will bear the worst of it. Climate activists have been telling us for a while now that global warming isn’t just about the polar bears, so it’s hardly breaking news that humans are going to suffer because nature is suffering. But what is new about this model is the degree of geographic specificity.

It pinpoints the places where projected environmental losses overlap with human populations who depend on those resources and maps them with a nifty interactive viewer. Greta Thunberg : l'icône d'une génération ? - France 2 - 15-10-2019. Jane Fonda gets arrested for climate protest, plans to do it again. Jane Fonda has joined many a protest in her eight decades on God’s green earth. She has marched with working mothers, supported the Black Panthers, and sat on an anti-aircraft gun in Vietnam. Now, the star of Barbarella, Monster-In-Law, and dozens more movies, TV shows, and exercise videos is lending her voice and influence in a new way to an old cause: climate change. If facts don’t make you prepare for a hurricane, what does? North Carolina is a magnet for hurricanes. Hurricanes Matthew and Florence both paid a visit in recent years, inundating towns and causing billions in damage. So if anyone in the United States knew firsthand that climate change was here, it would be the residents of New Hanover County, home to Wilmington and one of most vulnerable places in the country to hurricanes and sea-level rise.

A new study published in the journal Climatic Change looked at whether homeowners in this coastal county accepted climate science, and whether that made a difference in how they safeguarded their house against a future storm. The short answer: It didn’t. SURVIE DES MÉDIAS INDÉPENDANTS. Climat : changer de vie pour sauver la planète Le 12 octobre 2019. Elizabeth Warren’s new climate plan uses wildfire wisdom from tribes. A number of Democratic candidates for president have released ambitious environmental plans that make the environmental platforms of yore look like yesterday’s lunch.

And many of them include proposals aimed at correcting environmental injustices — protecting vulnerable communities that are often exposed to pollution or are on the frontline of climate change. Carbon tax, shmarbon tax, bring on the equity officers and resiliency projects. Elizabeth Warren just became the latest candidate to unveil such a plan. Critics call out Extinction Rebellion’s race problem. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

It was just a tweet, and whoever sent it probably didn’t think much about it. It was a sunny day in July and environmental activists had blocked the Strand with a big blue boat. “Live from the royal courts of justice,” Extinction Rebellion London wrote. Extinction, rébellion, actions. OCCUPATION D'ITALIE 2 : VICTOIRE DE LA RÉBELLION. GRETA THUNBERG, GILETS JAUNES ET GROS CO****** Une semaine de blocages par Extinction Rebellion : « Les gamins qui ont 15 ans, on leur promet quoi dans 30 ans ? Sea-level rise threatens 13 million Americans. Can FEMA help? Entrepreneur and presidential hopeful Andrew Yang caught flak at the second Democratic debate in July for saying that the time has come to move Americans living in the path of sea-level rise to higher ground.

Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh. Something is amiss on Sherman Island, a whale-shaped swath of farm and grazing land at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. If you don’t know what ails the place, it might be hard to pinpoint the problem. The island, in the Sacramento Delta, is roughly 16 square miles. Its asphalt roads, cracked and sagging at the edges, look like cheese melted over a lumpy pizza. The telephone poles, many of them kept erect by taut guy-wires, stand conspicuously at non-right angles. The landscape feels Dr. Why Extinction Rebellion is occupying an NYC park. 'these are everyday people' Hundreds of climate protesters around the world were arrested Monday, kicking off Extinction Rebellion’s “International Rebellion,” two weeks of direct action and civil disobedience protests in 60 countries. In London, protesters blocked all major roads around the Houses of Parliament, including Westminster Bridge, while hundreds more occupied Trafalgar Square.

In Argentina, activists in hazmat suits and blood-red cloaks with white face paint called the “red brigade” occupied a Bayer-Monsanto office in Buenos Aires. The most powerful tool for fighting climate change. The story behind the Extinction Rebellion symbol at climate protests. This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Want to know what climate change feels like? Ask an Alaskan. Adrienne Titus was heading back to her parents’ village on a sweltering afternoon in early July when she saw the dead salmon.

Extinction Rebellion: Le blocage au centre de Paris se poursuit. Quelques centaines de militants et sympathisants du mouvement écologiste Extinction Rebellion (XR) occupaient toujours ce mardi matin la place du Châtelet et un pont de la Seine, au centre de Paris, après y avoir passé la nuit dans le calme. Dans le cadre de la mobilisation internationale de « XR », ces militants occupent depuis lundi après-midi ce nœud central, à quelques centaines de mètres de la préfecture de police de Paris, où doit se tenir ce mardi matin une cérémonie en hommage aux victimes de la tuerie de la semaine dernière dans ces mêmes locaux, en présence d’Emmanuel Macron.

Climat. Une convention qui est encore loin de faire accord. India doesn’t have to lead on climate. It should anyway. ITALIE 2 : « DÉTRUISONS CE QUI NOUS DÉTRUIT ! DÉTRUISONS LE CAPITALISME ! » Some economics nerds just realized how much climate change will cost us. Que sont les fake news sur le thème de l’environnement? L'agriculture à l'épreuve du changement climatique en Ouganda. Greta, nous sommes fiers de toi. pétition. How can I invest my money without contributing to the climate crisis? The most controversial climate solution, explained. Why Naomi Klein thinks now is the moment for climate action.