United States: Democrats add basic income to a climate change addressing plan

It started on Tuesday, 13th of November 2018, with a 200 large committee of environmental activists (Sunrise Movement) crowding Nancy Pelosi’s office premises at the Capitol Building. The activists called upon Pelosi, the Democrats House speaker, to push for a real, ambitious and wide-reaching plan to curb climate change. That alone would probably amount to little as far as media coverage was concerned. However, the event was mediatized by recently elected Democrat MP and young political leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who stepped in and weighted her support, attracting lots of media attention.

What first seemed to be the aftermath of yet another Democrat internal dispute over climate change issues, turned out to be a positive reinforcement between Democratic leaders to start pushing for a deep strategy which can eventually set real policy to solve the climate crisis. Recent Pelosi efforts to revive energy independence and global warming related issues in the Househad turned out inconsequential, which only made the new Resolution presented by Alexandria stand out even more.

Read the Basic Income Earth Network story by Andre Coelho - “United States: Democrats add basic income to a climate change addressing plan.”

Dry conditions to continue

The last three weeks have been very dry in our regions. The main reason has been the stationary intense high pressure systems. 

The last three weeks have been dry in
and around the Goulburn Valley.

Over the past week an East Coast low has been sitting in the North Tasman Sea, delivering heavy rainfalls along the NSW Coast from Nowra up to Byron Bay and this has acted as a blocking situation. 

Once this East Low deepens and then moves away which appears likely by next week , this blocking pattern breaks down allowing rain bearing fronts to affect us eventually. 

Read Peter Nelson’s story on Country News - “Dry conditions to continue.”