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The vast majority—more than 67 percent of crop calories grown in the U.S.—are used to feed animals raised for human consumption. Rather than feeding people, these crops feed the billions of chickens, cows, pigs, and other animals who live and die on factory farms. And that’s a problem.
The amended Act weakens accountability for large corporations exploiting biodiversity resources, enabling them to deny fair compensation to tribal and local communities.
‘Adani Ports: The Tamil Nadu Villagers Taking on a Billionaire’s Port Plan’: Thousands of villagers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are fighting a proposal to expand a port owned by billionaire Gautam Adani. Also: ‘From a Kerala Port, a Citizens’ Report Provides Proof of “Destructive Development”’.
A discussion on why 2023 was so exceptionally warm and what that might entail for our estimates of where 2024 will end up.
‘As Snowfall and Rain Elude Himalayas in the Peak of Winter, Worries Mount’: There has been a decline in the frequency of the western disturbance tropical storm, which brings rain and snow to northern India, say scientists. Also: ‘Kashmiris Look to Heaven, with Prayers and Hope, as Snow Stays Away Through Coldest Phase of Winter’.
The reason for the climate crisis is the ever-increasing profits being generated by the global capitalist class from the exploitation of the world’s human and natural resources. The captains of industry and the politicians who serve them are therefore determined to preserve the status quo as long as possible.
Charles Derber, author of ‘Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It’, discusses how the myth of American exceptionalism undermines the solutions to the existential threats we face today, why “green capitalism” is an oxymoron, and the need to confront a “triangle of extinction.”
It’s not true that humanity is committing suicide, as exemplified by the COP28 farce of a climate summit. The world’s industrialists and financiers are committing humanity to ecocide. More than ever, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
One more UN Conference of the Parties, COP28, has flopped. The short-term financial interests of a few have again won over the health, lives and livelihoods of most people living on this planet. Meanwhile, new research has identified extremely disturbing deep trouble brewing in Greenland.
‘COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat’. Also: ‘Climate Summit at the Petroleum Kingdom’.
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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