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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That’s been true since 1945. Environmental destruction is also leading in the same direction. And then there are dangers like pandemics …
The industrialized food system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
In February this year, the Uttarakhand government was granted permission to continue mining the rivers flowing through the state’s hills and forests, sidestepping critical legal requirements to conserve forests and protect rivers.
On how the privatisation of the water industry under Margaret Thatcher has led to excessive profits and dividends for shareholders, chronic underinvestment in infrastructure, rampant sewage dumping, and a problematic revolving door between regulators and the companies they oversee.
On violence, non-violence, and the state. Mohandas Gandhi (1969-1948) and Abdullah Öcalan (1949-) were not contemporaries; this conversation is imaginary, but it may well have taken place in one of the many worlds we inhabit.
A new campaign is mobilizing communities across the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop the fossil fuel industry’s expansion with creative nonviolent action.
Indonesia boasts some of the world’s richest mineral deposits, but it has long focused on digging them up and shipping them to other countries for processing. The government in Jakarta is now trying to change that, but is facing fierce resistance from the West.
The film “Oppenheimer” has earned widespread attention. The author says that what “Oppie” began then has by now become a full-scale nuclear-industrial complex on a planet where ultimate destruction, it often seems, always lurks just around the corner.
Climate change protesters in Europe have been actively raising awareness and demanding urgent action from governments and corporations to address the escalating climate crisis. These protesters are part of a global movement that has gained significant momentum in recent years. But America’s streets are devoid of protestors.
In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the global level. This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us.
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