Fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1908 along with a heat wave and drought across North America there was really sensitizing a general public to something going on in the political sphere James Hansen had testified to the on the floor of the us actually in one of the Senate committees saying that global warming had begun and it s time to stop waffling about the issue James Hansen at the time was the head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and that it made a big impression and had earned a lot of news coverage and then also in the scientific sphere there was the formation of the inner governmental panel on climate change among other things and that u.n. Agency would then suck to better understand how the climate was changing around us and so together those events started to bring into a public conversation the challenges that we are facing as a global society to deal with this collective action problem. Were 8 and 9 years ending is pretty quickly the fossil fuel industry ki
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And decades can you believe it and also the state s Democratic Party of Virginia state of Virginia had unanimous unanimously endorsed a green new deal for Virginia a couple of months ago so something is happening on Virginia and Mazeltov that the Democrats have taken control of that state legislature then there s this ruling yesterday in England 4 in favor of the extinction rebellion activists who as you recall were. Told that they were unlawful by the police in October with their extinction rebellion. Protest that they ve been having on a regular basis and they were celebrating yesterday however the high court ruled that the ban imposed on protests by the city s Metropolitan Police this is Autumn uprising extinction or billions on him uprising scheme series they said the police said it was unlawful and now the Lord Justice says that the police overreach their authority and that s unlawful. So that s good news but then we have this at thousands of intentional fires continue to burn up
Was starting in with the Obama administration s support of the coup in Honduras sort of led to a whole shift in the right word direction in 2009 I guess it was and now 10 years later it s looks like the pendulum is swinging the other way very interesting. So let us start with the elections that have taken place yesterday here in the Bay Area there s a lot of stuff in San Francisco mostly the mayor was up the district attorney s supervisors the board of it had a public defender Treasurer sheriff lots of propositions and still course for information one turns to the on line San Francisco Bay Guardian endorsements which are still happening thank the Lord and that s it s after thank the Goddess ass f b g dot com and the inimitable. Tim Redmond who joins us on the telephone what do you. Good morning so. On 48 Hills which is what Tim and founded some years ago upon the demise of the late lamented San Francisco Bay Guardian. Well along with other reporters and editors there are 48 hills on t
And you will be safer Democratic leaders say Virginians should also expect a higher minimum wage and greater abortion rights after their gangs yesterday in Kentucky the Democrat in the race for governor and he Bashir claimed victory he was slightly ahead despite a last minute visit from President Trump to boost the end come but better than in the deeply Republican state that isn t is not conceding the race it s too close to call in the hard fought San Francisco race for district attorney and for a supervisor seat hitting an ally of Mayor London breed against a tenants rights attorney and unknown number of vote by mail ballots likely thousands of them haven t been counted yet the count as of last night showed interim district attorney Susie Loftus ahead of her main challenger chest of Dean who s run on a platform of implementing transformative racial justice policies as of the last count law this was ahead by 240 votes in the District 5 raise for San Francisco supervisor tenants rights