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Representatives of diverse social and environmental groups from across the country express grief and concern for the people of Joshimath, facing forced displacement from their homes in the midst of winter.
There has been a mushrooming of hydroprojects in the Himalayas despite the fact that they are prone to landslides and earthquakes.
Contrasting images come to mind when it comes to hunger and climate: a world in which a child under age ten dies of hunger every five seconds and the oligarchs of agri-food and finance decide every day who on this planet will die and who will live. This article is about loss of both morality and of thinking.
The report claims that, to maintain a 50:50 chance of warming not exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, CO₂ emissions must be cut to “net-zero” by the “early 2050s.” However, a more rigorous analysis of the report’s data gives a zero CO₂ date of 2040.
With landmark anniversaries of the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and the failure to address global heating, ninety seconds to midnight may be too generous an appraisal.
Slope subsidence in Joshimath was a disaster waiting to happen. It is both criminal and tragic that it was allowed to happen.
Ever since the rise of capitalism and corporations, the manipulation of science has been at the centre of the endeavours of big companies and corporations – like those related to tobacco, asbestos, chemicals, fast food, and oil and gas. This is a threat to human existence as well as planet earth.
The urgency to address the relation between the militarized-capitalist-supremacist mindset and the living body of the earth looms larger all the time. The latter includes you and me, our beloved human families, friends, communities, and peoples, and also our non-human kith and kin.
India’s Finance Minister mentioned the word ‘green’ about two dozen times in her 2023 Budget speech. But does this signify a significant shift towards orienting the economy towards ecological sensitivity? Or is it greenwashing of the kind this government has become increasingly adept at.
This year, 2023 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Chipko Movement, in which vilagers were involved in protecting trees in natural forests from being axed by contractors or government agencies, in the bargain asserting more local rights over forests.
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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