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News & Views | 11/2/21

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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to reporters

by Jake Johnson
"When 41% of the American people tell us that their top priority is for us to expand Medicare to include dental and vision benefits... what should we do? We should listen to the people."

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Message to Biden on climate says

by Kenny Stancil
"With all eyes on Glasgow this week, the Biden administration seems to be turning its back on reality and throwing climate leadership into the toilet," said one critic.


Luis Arce

by Brett Wilkins
"The solution," said Luis Arce at COP26, "is to change the model of civilization and move towards an alternative model to capitalism, the concept of living well together in harmony with Mother Earth."


President Biden speaks as climate envoy John Kerry listens

by Andrea Germanos
The development came as the coalition stressed a "need to halve global emissions by 2030."

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by Jake Johnson
"The best regulation against methane emissions is to ban fracking and prohibit the use of methane in heating of newly constructed buildings."


Bush and Jones

by Jake Johnson
"Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant," the Missouri Democrat said in a scathing statement.


Demonstrators attend a vigil in Poland for a woman who died after doctors refused to give her an abortion

by Julia Conley
Vigils and demonstrations followed death of 30-year-old woman known only as Izabela who was refused an abortion by doctors.


forest

by Jessica Corbett
"What corporations and big conservation groups call 'nature-based solutions' is a dangerous distraction."


Demonstrators attend a rally for voting rights

by Andrea Germanos
"Foreign donors shouldn't be influencing our elections, no matter whether it's at the federal, state, or local level, said Rep. Katie Porter.


Palau President Surangel Whipps, Jr. speaks at COP26 on November 2, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: Adrian Dennis/Pool via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil
"Leaders of the G20, we are drowning and our only hope is the life-ring you are holding," said Surangel Whipps Jr., president of the Pacific island nation. "You must act now. We must act together."

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smoke-from-fossil-fuels-2600x1361

by Richard Heinberg
If society attempts to maintain current levels of energy services throughout the transition, the result will be a spike in both energy usage and carbon emissions.


President Joe Biden speaks

by Jeff Hauser
America is in a populist moment. If Democrats won’t harness that then the right-wing will, substituting their bigoted fantasies for the actual forces which make life worse for Americans.


GettyImages-1235815445_climate_strike_belgium

by João Camargo
The social alliance to take on global capitalism must be global, radical, popular, tactically, and strategically focused, while at the same time flexible and imaginative.


GettyImages-1236282037_COP26

by Tina Gerhardt
At this week's climate negotiations in Glasgow, countries must get serious about detailing their plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions.


campfire-climate-crisis

by Tom Engelhardt
In the wake of the implosion of the Soviet Union, the U.S. decided to remake the world and did so—at least in the sense of allowing climate change to run riot on Planet Earth—while, in the process, unmaking itself.


trees

by Mary Annaïse Heglar
We talk a lot about building a "livable future," but what does that really mean?

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Senator Bernie Sanders
National Iranian American Council (NIAC)
Food & Water Watch

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