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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The perilous heating of this planet is the topic that will, sooner or later, leave all others in the dust. New cold wars and hot wars will make no sense whatsoever in such a future. Either attention to climate change will leave all else in the dust or climate change itself will leave us all in the dust!
Hell on earth? That used to be nothing more than a phrase used for extreme situations, a first-class metaphor. Increasingly, though, it’s becoming an ever more accurate description of our lives on this planet and something we would have to get used to. Except that, for many of us in such a future, there would be no way to do so.
Given our world, we should all probably be in the streets now. I mean, here we are heading into Cold War II, while facing the possibility of World War III on a planet that, thanks to the way we live and produce energy, is heading for hell.
Once upon a time, who could have imagined that humanity would inherit the kinds of apocalyptic powers previously left to the gods or that, when we finally noticed them, we would prove eerily unable to respond?
America’s domestic violence (shootings, massacres, world’s highest prison population, etc.) cannot be distinguished from the wars and blockades waged by the USA and its arms sales and 800 military bases around the world, that are involved in almost continual bombings and drone killings.
The daily rise in the global coronavirus cases and deaths, as well as U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths, remind you daily that we live in a deeply wounded land on a deeply wounded planet and that, no matter the fate of Covid-19, it’s only likely to get worse.
We in the US are now indeed a roach nation, the still-wealthiest, most pandemically unmasked one on Planet Earth.
“Terracide.” A new word – it’s meant to encompass the almost unimaginable – what the big energy companies are doing on and to our planet right now. Their execs are consciously destroying/melting it for profit and if that doesn’t make them terrorists – or terrarists, what does?
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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