Tag: Dec 2023

‘Disastrous’: US Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution at UN Security Council

A Palestinian man covered in dust holds the hand of a weeping child

As the United Nations humanitarian chief warned that aid workers in Gaza are “hanging on by our fingertips” as they try to mitigate an “untenable” disaster, and with Americans’ support for Israel’s U.S-backed bombardment of the enclave eroding, the United States on Friday vetoed a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire at the U.N. Security Council.

Source: ‘Disastrous’: US Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution at UN Security Council

COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat – » The Australian Independent Media Network

With the figures of science essentially excluded from these hot air gatherings in favour of industries that see them as troubling nuisances best ignored, the prospect for local and domestic reform through informed activism becomes the only sensible approach. There are even heartening studies suggesting that climate protest can warm frigid public opinion, the only measure that really interests the vote getting politician. Unfortunate that this seems a last throw for much of humanity and the earth’s ecosystem.

Source: COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat – » The Australian Independent Media Network