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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Today, humanity is at risk because of senseless social inequality, attacks on the environment, and an unsustainable consumption pattern in rich countries that is imposed on us by capitalism and its profit-seeking mentality.
We can understand antibiotics by analogy with fossil fuels. Both are natural resources extracted from the earth. Both developed slowly but have been rapidly exploited by humans. And both disrupt ecosystems, creating problems for the future.
Matri Sadan, established in 1997, has emerged as a hub of saints and activists undertaking satyagraha to protect Ganga river.
A new study finds Greenland’s ice sheet thinning much further into the ice sheet core than previously thought, 100 miles inland. The implications are extremely concerning and far-reaching especially for sea level rise.
“In Odisha, Seed Banks are Bringing Back Traditional and Organic Methods of Farming”; and “Sustainable Agriculture: Bringing Indian Farmers on Board”.
As extreme rains, alternating with prolonged dry spells, wreak havoc on the kharif crop, small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha are facing acute distress that will only get worse in the months ahead.
Interview with economist Timothy A. Wise on the need for Africa to reduce dependence on fossil-fuel-based fertilizer, which has been heavily promoted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, a project of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations.
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!
Whatever grand declarations they issue as the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh concludes this week, the reality is that European states effectively tied their hands for the foreseeable future by ratifying the Energy Charter Treaty back in the 1990s. That prevents them from cutting emissions.
Capitalism as an economic system requires constant growth, constant profit, and endless extraction in order to achieve profit.
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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