Biden’s Militarized Foreign Policy is Obstructing his Climate Agenda (Stephen Semler)

Biden’s Militarized Foreign Policy is Obstructing his Climate Agenda

It's ok to be angry about those who refuse to act on climate. Anger leads to action

 https://kenyonreview.org/journal/july-aug-2022/selections/genevieve-guenther/

The right-wing pro-Israel lobby is attacking progressives. This has everything to do with fossil fuels and resistance to action on the climate. The status quo in Israel is militarized, fossil-fueled relationships with dictatorships and ongoing oppression of Palestinians. All built on the oil-weapons-war cycle. We'll discuss this fall..

Peter Beinart: The Israel Lobby Is Spending Millions to Defeat Progressive Democrats in Primary Races

 https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/19/maryland_donna_edwards_aipac_israel_palestine

Peter Beinart:

"So, there’s a group called Mainstream Democrats. If you look at their website, it says nothing about Israel-Palestine whatsoever. It just says it doesn’t want the Democratic Party to be taken over by far-left groups. But Mainstream Democrats is actually run by Democratic Majority for Israel. So what you see is this very, very close alliance. They work out of the same offices with the same staff, so, essentially, this extremely close relationship between groups that want to defeat progressives because they support Palestinian rights, and groups that just want to defeat progressives because they essentially want the Democratic Party to be dominated by people like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who will do the bidding of the fossil fuel industry, the healthcare industry, the financial services industry."

People say the transition to renewable energy costs too much, biggest red herring talking point there is. The alternatives are much costlier.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/environment/build-back-better-joe-manchin.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thea Riofrancos reviews Andreas Malm: "How to Blow up a Pipeline"

 https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/andreas-malm-climate-politics/

I have long referred to the criminality of the fossil fuel industry, and people say I'm conspiratorial. Well, the evidence is on my side: "Spire criticized for destroying documents about controversial St. Louis pipeline" (Bryce Gray - Post-Dispatch)

 

Last year we thought things were getting better in the Middle East, now the Biden administration is dragging the US deeper into the circle of weapons and oil. (Sarah Whitson in the American Prospect)

 

Big Oil Bought the Supreme Court, Which is Why They Love Global Warming and Hate the EPA (The Intercept)

 

Ameren looks to solar and gas-powered plants for new energy sources -- bad news

 Don't let the solar plant fool you.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2022-06-29/ameren-looks-to-solar-and-gas-powered-plants-for-new-energy-sources

Climate Denialism is About White Supremacy

 https://atmos.earth/climate-denial-mass-shootings-white-supremacy/

Republicans have been gunning for the EPA for a long time

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/climate/supreme-court-climate-epa.html?referringSource=articleShare

Fossil Fuels on Campus: Stanford's just like Wash U in some ways

 https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/stanford-sustainability-school/

The Fossil Fuel Industry is Racist

 https://gizmodo.com/the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-racist-1846594231?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=earther_twitter

On the Supreme Court's EPA decision

 https://www.drilledpodcast.com/what-paths-would-the-worst-west-virginia-v-epa-ruling-leave-open/