Trump Against the Planet

(Before It's News)

Cross-posted from Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative.

John Bellamy Foster: This administration is not just a cabal of ignoramuses. Their efforts to undermine regulations and discredit science are parts of an attempt by carbon capital to continuing burning fossil fuels, no matter the cost to humanity.

• 60 percent of primate species face impending extinction, and 75 percent have declining populations globally
• Brazil President Temer reduces preservation in Pará forest and legalizes squatters – Protection removed from 305,000 hectares (754,000 acres)
• Latest Projections of Regional Sea Level Rise Emphasize Need for Ongoing Research, Adaptation Planning
• Carbon capture needed to make carbon dioxide emissions fall – Wind and solar alone won’t meet Paris Agreement goals
• More than 100 wildfires rage across Chile – Fires have destroyed nearly one million acres
• “Sharkwater” filmmaker Rob Stewart missing after Florida dive
• To feed or to perish in an iceless world
• Links of interest
• The Global Warming Policy Foundation (UK): More Pertinent than Ever
• Natural GMOs Pat 256. Multiple horizontal transfers of nuclear ribosomal genes between phylogenetically distinct grass lineages