Local victories inspire us to keep up the fight even when the global climate picture feels bleak.


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NEWSLETTER | JANUARY 17, 2020
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The place I call home celebrated a big win this week when the City of Richmond, CA voted to phase out the handling and storage of coal and petcoke. The victory caps several years of dedicated work by local organizers who have been pushing for action ([link removed]) ever since they learned that a private export terminal had dramatically increased the amount of coal it was shipping to Asia. The increased exports meant more coal was passing through the city in uncovered train cars and sitting at the port in uncovered piles — and that, in turn, meant more particulate pollution was almost inevitably reaching Richmond residents’ lungs.

Richmond’s battle with fossil fuels isn’t over. The company that owns the terminal — as well as the Utah company that mines the coal shipped from there — threatened to sue if the vote didn’t go their way. Besides, residents of this industrial city like me continue to breathe far more than our fair share of the Bay Area’s air pollution, including fumes pumping out of the nearby Chevron refinery.

But for the moment, as someone living about a mile from the terminal as the crow — or coal dust — flies, I’m thankful for this important win. Local victories inspire us to keep up the fight, even when the global climate picture feels bleak.

Onward,
Zoe Loftus-Farren
Managing Editor, Earth Island Journal
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Mercury, apparently. A new study has revealed that the California Bay Area’s signature marine fog is transporting dimethylmercury, with mountain lions and other mammals in coastal ecosystems on the receiving end of this toxic metal exposure.
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** Fire in Ancient Forests ([link removed])
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Fire is a natural event in many Australian landscapes, but not in the Gondwana rainforests that have recently burned. As this wildfire season is showing, environmental degradation combined with record-breaking temperatures could utterly transform ecosystems that have survived for tens of millions of years.
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** On the Backs of the Poor ([link removed])
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“Capitalism’s devaluation of nature and human health in poorer countries is not a bug, a dodgy line of code messing up the programming. It is a feature,” posits this critique of the Green New Deal and other similar green-economy proposals by rich nations.
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In 2019, the world’s oceans absorbed "about five Hiroshima bombs of heat, every second, day and night, 365 days a year," says the author of a new scientific study on ocean warming released this week.

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Journalist Meera Subramanian’s compassionate account of “the shared lament between the climate-stubborn Right, the Green New Deal Left, and the majority who inhabit the space in between” is totally worth curling up in a corner with and reading all the way through.

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