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The climate emergency is just getting started.
Homeowners Are Losing Their Insurance
Homeowners insurance costs have soared across the country partly due to unpredictable weather patterns, particularly in places like California, Texas and Florida, a development that has led to increased claims from customers that are hurting companies…
“Climate adaptation, on the other hand, will become very real, as more insurers scale back activities in even more regions affected by climate change and explore new types of heat-linked policies,” she said.
People living this close to the ocean are still in denial of what’s coming. They spent $500,000 on a sand dune wiped away in 3 days.
Massachusetts town grapples with sea rise after sand barrier fails…
As weather patterns get more extreme and oceans get warmer, sea levels rise due to thermal expansion and weather patterns get more extreme, boosting coastal erosion. This climate crisis is now on the doorstep of Salisbury beach homeowners, as they suffer the consequences of rising sea levels, stronger winds and severe storms in recent months, including two in January.
It’s been three weeks since Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
CrimethInc. : Memories of Aaron Bushnell : As Recounted by His Friends
Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure | The Guardian
Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North Sea oil infrastructure as part of a coordinated pan-European civil disobedience protest….
The protest comes in the same week a report found none of the big fossil fuel producing countries in the region had plans to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating target set by the Paris climate accords.
Rachel Corrie Gave Her Life for Palestine
This day in 2003, the IDF killed American activist Rachel Corrie as she defended homes in Rafah from destruction. As Israel threatens to invade the city, a volunteer who stood alongside Rachel writes on her legacy — a call for steadfast solidarity with Gazans.
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World Central Kitchen | Operation Safeena: WCK aid boat offloads in Gaza
World Central Kitchen’s team in Gaza is offloading 200 tons of desperately needed food that arrived on our first maritime aid shipment to the region. Carried on the Open Arms vessel, the cargo is part of Operation Safeena, our effort to bring as much aid as possible to Palestinians by sea. We have provided more than 37 million meals to families in war-torn Gaza by land and air since first responding to the conflict.
Mehdi Hasan Debunks 7 Israeli Myths About UNRWA - YouTube
As Israel launches a propaganda campaign against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), millions of Palestinians continue to rely on the agency’s critical support when it comes to healthcare, education, and food. In this latest DEBUNKED!, Mehdi Hasan refutes the top 7 Israeli lies about UNRWA.
Love in the time of genocide | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera
For weeks in southern Gaza during a recent visit, I collected stories of women admitted to hospital, each of them there to recover from what they call “war wounds”. But it’s not a war, because only one side has an actual army. Only one side is a state with full military wares.
These victims were mothers, wives and babies, whose slight bodies were pierced, torn, broken and burned. Their deeper injuries aren’t visible, until they open up about their lives over the past five months.
#gaza
Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming | CBC News
For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.
The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fuelled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren’t just the hottest for February, but eclipsed any month on record, soaring past August 2023’s mark and still rising at the end of the month.
Moving in the wrong direction on climate.
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power - The Washington Post…
Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.
Famine in Gaza
Is there famine in Gaza? | Reuters
The United Nations said in February that more than a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were “estimated to be facing catastrophic levels of deprivation and starvation.” It said without action widespread famine could be “almost inevitable.”
The IPC is due to release a new analysis of the situation in Gaza by mid-March.
…as U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said: “Once a famine is declared, it is too late for too many people.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters block roads leading to Oscars
Love to see it:
Pro-Palestinian protesters chanting “Cease fire now” blocked roads leading to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, delaying the start of the Oscars. Some ceremony attendees in formalwear shoved past protesters.
Our uninterrupted struggle for women's freedom, from Saras to Zîlans, from Bêrîtans to Doğa Viyans, created great gains for women and became the expression that a society whose women are free will also be free. In this sense, women transforming the areas they are in into positions of resistance means the end of the rapist masculine mentality. The way to do this is to organize strongly. Where a single woman remains unorganized, women will continue to be subjected to violence, rape, oppression and exploitation.
Linked: Climate Emergency
This chart of ocean temperatures should really scare you…
If you were to dip your toes into the middle of the North Atlantic — say, somewhere between South Carolina and Spain — the water would feel frigid. You definitely wouldn’t want to swim. It’s winter.
Yet that water would, in fact, be very warm, relatively speaking. Right now, the North Atlantic ocean is, on average, warmer than any other time on record, running about 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the average temperature over the last three decades.
An 11 minute clip that clearly explains the current crisis in Gaza, Biden and his loss of support among progressives
Uncommitted vote in Michigan ‘doing Biden a favor’ by sounding alarm on Gaza policy…
“Uncommitted” earned 100,000 votes in the Michigan Democratic primary Tuesday, raising flags to the Biden administration that its policy on Gaza could lose him crucial swing state voters. SiriusXM’s Dean Obeidallah and Jewish Current’s Peter Beinart say the effort reflects a need for urgency in resolving the war in Gaza.
The March 4 episode of The Majority Report features an excellent interview with Rashid Khalidi that begins at 23:30 and covers his work documenting the Palestinian resistance to Britain dating back to 1917:
…well before the establishment of the state of Israel, looking at the central role of the West – namely Britain and the US – in support and facilitating the violent establishment and maintenance of a Zionist apartheid state.
Thinking of to Aaron Bushnell and his self-immolation to protest genocide
Over the past week my mind went often to Aaron Bushnell and his self-immolation to protest genocide a week ago.
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now." - Aaron Bushnell, February 25, 2024
Via Mastodon: StillIRise1963…
People who’ve had it so easy have no fucking idea what their inaction will bring to them.
People don’t know how easy they have it. Most Americans live better that probably at least 6 billion people on the planet. We have our issues and inequalities and various forms of classism, but very few of us spend our days getting water or wood or protecting ourselves from militias roaming the country. Few of us live in tiny apartments in shifts while we work in sweatshops. We’re spoiled. A lot of us
Linked: Palestinian and Gaza News
For Israel, violence is inherent in its colonial DNA: Marwan Bishara…
At least 77 Palestinians have been killed and more than 250 people are injured - after Israeli forces opened fire on people trying to collect food aid in Gaza City. Hundreds of hungry and starving Palestinians had come to collect food aid, when they were attacked by Israeli snipers and shelled by Israeli tanks. Civilians were left scrambling to transport the dead and injured to nearby hospitals - many are in critical condition. Most of the medical facilities in Gaza are barely functioning or out of service.
“Uncommitted”: Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden’s Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary…
Over 100,000 voters cast their ballots for “uncommitted” in an organized campaign protesting U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. The major battleground state is home to one of the largest Arab American populations in the country, but the movement to vote “uncommitted” is now expected to spread to other states… “There is genocide unfolding. People want it to end. The president either is going to have to act decisively to end it, or it’s going to have an impact in November.”