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    Plastic pollution after flooding.

    Outgoing UN Expert Calls for Global Grassroots Movement to Dislodge 'Diesel Mafia'

    The growing global recognition of the human right to a clean environment "is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and nature," said David Boyd.

    Julia Conley
    May 07, 2024

    After spending six years traveling the world in his role as the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Canadian law professor David Boyd said Tuesday that the growing global recognition of the right to a healthy environment gives him hope—but warned that with a world economy based on exploitation, campaigners face major challenges in ensuring environmental justice for all.

    In his final interview as the U.N.'s top expert on the subject, Boyd told The Guardian that during his tenure, the international body's Human Rights Council formally recognized that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a fundamental human right in 2021, and the U.N. General Assembly did the same in 2022.

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    'True Climate Hero' Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives Injured in Suspected Bomb Attack

    'True Climate Hero' Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives Injured in Suspected Bomb Attack

    "Cowardly attacks like these have no place in our society," said Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid.

    Common Dreams Staff
    May 06, 2021

    This is a developing news story... Check back for possible updates...

    Former Maldives president and climate champion Mohamed Nasheed was injured Thursday in a suspected bomb attack as he was getting into his car in the nation's capital of Male.

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    American Farmers Are Reaping the Climate Denial Whirlwind

    American Farmers Are Reaping the Climate Denial Whirlwind

    Last year it was the residents of Paradise, California who paid the price, when their city burned to the ground in a matter of hours. Today it is farmers. Tomorrow it might well be me, or you.

    Ryan Cooper
    Jun 05, 2019

    It's commonly thought on the right (and sometimes on the left) that the United States will not be harmed too much by climate change. With our wealth, geography, and relative isolation from the rest of the world, we will be able to fence out climate refugees and continue to drive gas-guzzling SUVs until the end of time.

    This idea is sorely mistaken. It's true that America will not be as catastrophically harmed as Bangladesh, India, or the Maldives. But we are far from immune--just witness this season's epic flooding across the Midwest, which has drowned farmland throughout the region. American farmers are paying for a generation of U.S. dithering and denial about climate change.

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