Top News: Israel's War on Gaza Also Destroying the Climate

 

Thursday, June 6, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  'Horrific': Israel's War on Gaza Also Destroying the Climate, Study Finds "This report lays bare the hypocrisy of Western nations who moralize about the perils of climate breakdown... while funding, aiding, and enabling the Israeli regime's catastrophic war," one expert said. By Edward Carver 'A Real Betrayal': Hochul Condemned for NYC Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Climate advocate Bill McKibben called the reversal "the most aggressively anti-environmental stand I can recall a major Democratic governor taking." By Julia Conley NAACP Joins Growing Chorus Demanding Biden Halt Arms Shipments to Israel "The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the red line and indefinitely end the shipment of weapons and artillery to the state of Israel," said Derrick Johnson, the civil rights group's CEO. By Brett Wilkins 'Welcome Accountability': Steve Bannon Ordered to Prison "No one is above the law: not the rich, not the powerful, and not Steve Bannon," said one congressman. By Jessica Corbett 'We Want Peace': Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel "We do it out of commitment to the United Nations and to international law," said the Spanish foreign minister, calling for an end to civilian deaths. By Edward Carver 'Bleak Reality': World on Track to Overshoot 1.5°C Target in at Least 1 of Next 5 Years "We must urgently do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, or we will pay an increasingly heavy price," the WMO's deputy secretary-general said. By Olivia Rosane

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