Daily Archives: October 4, 2022

2022-10-04: News Headlines

Olivia Rosane (2022-10-04). Wealthiest 10% responsible for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, study finds. nationofchange.org "[I]t appears that climate policies over the past decades have often targeted low-income and low-emitter groups disproportionately, while leaving high emitters relatively unaffected."

____ (2022-10-03). Towards Understanding Injustice, Inequality, Violence and Social Problems Blocking Human Progress. transcend.org Our Human Culture and Our Problems…

_____ (2022-10-03). Wealthiest 10% Responsible for Nearly % of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds. popularresistance.org The paper, published in Nature Sustainability Thursday, looked at the difference in per-capita emissions across the global economic spectrum between 1990 and 2019. During this time, the top one percent of emitters were responsible for nearly a quarter of all emissions contributing to the climate crisis and the top 10 percent are now responsible for nearly half of the total.

Sarah Anderson (2022-10-03). In Long Fight for Climate Justice, Activists Win Key Victory Against Manchin and Fossil Fuel Industry. inequality.org

Steve Wamhoff (2022-10-03). Will Congress Extend Corporate Tax Breaks But Not Tax Provisions That Reduce Child Poverty? commondreams.org If lawmakers believe it's worthwhile to extend corporate tax breaks, then it would be entirely unreasonable for them to not conclude the same about tax provisions that help low-income children.

____ (2022-10-03). Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 18 Dec 2011). transcend.org Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989—92) and of the Czech Republic (1993—2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.

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