Daily News 11/1

Climate Emergency? Tax Polluters!: Rich polluter profits tax could raise up to $400 billion and help phase out fossil fuels Mega rich oil, gas and coal companies, described as the ‘Godfathers of climate chaos’, are driving humanity to the edge of destruction and earning billions in doing so. For decades, they’ve spread lies and disinformation about the climate crisis and lobbied to create fossil-fuel driven economies. They’ve received billions in government subsidies and as energy prices soared, instead of investing in renewable energy, enriched their shareholders to the tune of $403 billion in 2024 alone.

A Sane Society World Hold the Oil Companies Accountable for Their Crimes!

With wars raging in Ukraine and Iran and worries about artificial intelligence — which he also tried to rally world leaders around — there are a lot of threats out there, Guterres said. “The problem is that all these things are getting combined,” Guterres said, noting the huge electricity and water consumption and carbon emissions of AI. War-related energy shocks show that relying on fossil fuels is a fundamental security problem, he said. Three years ago, Guterres toured the highest peaks of Nepal, warning of a future with swollen glacier-fed lakes bursting and devastating floods and landslides. “I am here today to cry out from the rooftop of the world: Stop the madness,” Guterres said in 2023. “The glaciers are retreating, but we cannot,” he said. “We must end the fossil fuel age.” Unfortunately they came sooner than what I expected,” he recalled in the interview. Floods in August killed more than 1,400 people with another 5,600 missing. Scientists said climate change played a role in the disasters. Guterres said someone needs to pay to help the victims of climate change, who often didn’t cause the problem. “Fossil fuel companies are making huge profits and obviously those windfall profits should be taxed and those taxes should be applied in supporting the countries that are having the more dramatic impacts of climate change,” Guterres said. — Departing U.N. chief calls this ‘a moment of truth’ in fight to curb global warming

We Are In a Climate Energency We Need Emergencry Action: The Climate Emergency: The science is clear. The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear. Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels has emitted enough greenhouse gases (GHGs) to significantly alter the composition of the atmosphere and average world temperature has risen between 1.1 and 1.2°C. Africa contributes to only 2-3% of global greenhouse (GHG) emissions, yet it is the most vulnerable region to climate change’s impacts. For every degree in rising temperatures, the cost of adaptation will rise exponentially. Africa will require USD 52.7 billion per year for the next 20 years to reduce its climate vulnerability. Current investments in adaptation are insufficient and hard limits are approaching in Africa. The drought in Horn of Africa has resulted in unavoidable loss of crops, livelihoods, lives, income and resulted in malnutrition, displacement and economic losses. Yet the gap between ambition and action continues to grow. We have the solutions we need and many will reduce emissions, contribute to climate adaptation, create jobs, restore the natural environment and encourage good investments. You can Act Now and Speak Up. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) stands at the core of the action in the fight against climate change, taking a four-pronged approach to the climate crisis:

Providing cutting-edge research to support science-based decision-making
Working across sectors to support the transition to a low-carbon, more resilient future and reduce emissions while adapting to the climate impacts.
Ensuring a just transition to a carbon-neutral world, by empowering communities to adapt to changing conditions and increase resilience
Providing sustainable mechanisms to unlock finance for mitigation and adaptation efforts.

COP31 – State of Climate Update 2026 press conference statement Statement by WMO Secretary-General, Celeste Saulo during the press conference on the release of the State of the Climate Update 2026 at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP31). Together we can save lives. We have no time to lose. The World Meteorological Organization is today releasing its State of the Climate Update 2026. It brings scientific evidence to the heart of our discussions at COP31. The science is extremely robust. Yet again we are reporting a series of broken records. And the current levels of greenhouse gases reveal that there is no end in sight. The past 12 years have been the warmest on record. The past four years – including 2026 – are the top four. From January to September 2026, the global average temperature was about 1.47 °C above the pre-industrial average. When we take into account the strong El Niño, temperatures are likely to rise further for 2026 as a whole. We also know that El Niño is likely to have its greatest impact on global temperatures the year after its development. This is why 2024 was the warmest year on record, and why we should therefore prepare for another record-breaking year in 2027. Indeed, this 2026/2027 El Niño is off the charts. It is different from any El Niño that we have monitored. The World Meteorological Organization declares an El Niño when the sea surface temperature is 0.5°C above average in the Tropical Pacific – the epicentre of El Niño. We forecast that it may be nearly four times that level between November 2026 and January 2027. So let me give you some more facts and figures:

Ocean heat is the highest on record for the tenth consecutive year.
Sea-surface temperatures hit monthly records during 2026.
Sea level has also reached a record high, increasing risks for 900 million people living along low-lying coasts.

MARX’S ETHICAL VISION “The communists do not preach morality at all”; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. But Marx condemned bourgeois morality and capitalism’s “vampire-like” destructiveness. Wills covers a vast range of Marx’s writings and articulates novel Marxist positions in a range of philosophical debates.

CLIMATE FAULT LINES The New Political Economy of a Warming World Climate Fault Lines show that the effects of climate change are far from equal, with the most severe damages concentrated in the world’s hottest regions. They argue that this divide—a fault line that cuts across existing social, economic, and political divisions—will produce diverging political responses to the changing climate. Unequal harm, not shared global vulnerability, increasingly informs climate politics.

AFTER THE FLUSH Rethinking the Future of Human Waste Kawa follows the trail of human bodily excrement as it travels through multiple sites in the American Midwest, documenting the treatment and transformation of sanitation waste. sharing insights from activists who propose alternative models to the industrial system. Reframing human bodily waste as simply part of the human biome, this book offers radical possibilities for managing the human relationship to self, body, community, and ecology.

AMERICA’S WRONG TURN US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes? McDonough shows how neoliberal policies have deepened inequality, eroded public health capacity, and created a growing burden of medical debt.

The United States Government is Proving it is Not a Dmocracy: ‘Illegal and Senseless’: 71% of Americans Want Swift End to Trump’s Iran War“Lawmakers can act on that right now by passing legislation to prohibit more funding for the war, and by not passing any bills that continue to fund it,” said one policy expert

Days After Midterm Blowout, 22 Democrats Join GOP to Advance ‘Massive Giveaway’ to Big Oil Even if the Burning of Fassil Fuels, Instanly Stops the. The Damaged has Already Happened! The Effects of Todays Gloal Warming State Will Last For a Long Time! Fidel Castro was Right, When He Stated Oveer 39 years Ago That “Tomorrow will be too late to do what we should have done long ago.”

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“Tomorrow will be too late”: Fidel Castro’s speech on the Environment and Development, June 12, 1992

Fidel Castro’s speech at the UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio De Janeiro, June 12, 1992. It remains powerfully reevant today. (A new translation from the Spanish)

Mr. President of Brazil, Fernando Collor de Mello;

Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Butros Ghali

Excellencies,

An important biological species is at risk of disappearing due to the rapid and progressive liquidation of its natural living conditions: humans.

We are now becoming aware of this problem when it is almost too late to prevent it.

It is necessary to point out that consumer societies are fundamentally responsible for the atrocious destruction of the environment. They were born from former colonial metropolises and imperial policies that, in turn, engendered the backwardness and poverty that plague the vast majority of humanity today. With only 20 percent of the world’s population, they consume two-thirds of the metals and three-quarters of the energy produced in the world. They have poisoned the seas and rivers, polluted the air, weakened and perforated the ozone layer, and saturated the atmosphere with gases that alter climatic conditions with catastrophic effects that we are already beginning to experience.

Forests are disappearing, deserts are expanding, billions of tons of fertile soil are washing into the sea each year. Numerous species are becoming extinct. Population pressure and poverty are leading to desperate efforts to survive, even at the expense of nature. This cannot be blamed on Third World countries, colonies once upon a time, nations exploited and plundered today by an unjust global economic order.

The solution cannot be to prevent development for those who need it most. The reality is that everything that contributes to underdevelopment and poverty today constitutes a flagrant violation of the environment. Tens of millions of men, women, and children die each year in the Third World as a result—more than in each of the two world wars. Unequal trade, protectionism, and foreign debt harm the environment and promote environmental destruction.

If we want to save humanity from self-destruction, we must better distribute the wealth and technologies available on the planet. Less luxury and less waste in a few countries so that there is less poverty and less hunger across much of the Earth. No more transfers to the Third World of lifestyles and consumption habits that ruin the environment. Make human life more rational. Implement a fair international economic order. Use all the science necessary for sustained development without pollution. Pay the ecological debt, not the foreign debt. Eliminate hunger, not humanity.

When the supposed threats of communism have disappeared and there are no longer any pretexts for cold wars, arms races, and military spending, what is stopping us from immediately dedicating these resources to promoting the development of the Third World and combating the threat of ecological destruction of the planet?

Let selfishness cease, let hegemonism cease, let insensitivity, irresponsibility, and deceit cease. Tomorrow will be too late to do what we should have done long ago.

Thank you.