If We Don’t Act Now, 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.
Re-reading Tagore to Become Human
Tagore’s play Mukta-Dhara foretells the manner in which people across the country have been losing their freedom — those uprooted by development quite obviously so, those ‘benefitting’ from it (mostly living in cities) more subtly and invisibly. This is the ecologically fatal price of ‘progress’, which Rabindranath anticipated in much of his work.
Vulnerable and Marginalised at Receiving End of Climate Change
A recent study on impact of droughts catalysed by climate change on Dalits and the Adivasis of Marathwada region of Maharashtra points to the grim reality that it is the socially and economically vulnerable who are the worst sufferers of these weather-related natural disasters.
Ecological Civilization, Ecological Revolution
How are we to understand the origins and historic significance of the concept of ecological civilization? What is its relation to ecological Marxism? And how is this connected to the worldwide revolutionary struggle aimed at transcending our current planetary emergency and protecting what Karl Marx called “the chain of human generations,” together with life in general?
Optimism of the Will
One thing that gives me hope is that people are struggling hard under very severe circumstances, much more severe than we can imagine, all over the world to achieve rights and justice. They don’t give up hope, so we certainly can’t.
Where Will the Nuclear Waste Go?
The very big problem: nuclear waste needs to be isolated from life for way more than 100,000 years.
The Narmada Sardar Sarovar Project: The Truth About the Dam(Ned) Delay
Recently, PM Modi put the blame for delay in implementation of the Sardar Sarovar Project on “urban naxals and anti-development elements”. This is not merely wrong and unfair, but reflects regrettable ignorance of ground realities.
The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet
On just what it means, in climate terms, for the U.S., no matter the administration, to pour ever more taxpayer dollars into the Pentagon and the rest of the national security state. It’s long been a commonplace to claim that war is hell. Sadly enough, that way of life is now all too literally the path to hell.
Capitalism Won’t Fix the Climate Crisis. It Will Also Not Survive It
On McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth: Global heating and climate breakdown are with us now, rather than a vague ten thousand years down the line. We confront the greatest threat in human history. I am seeking to paint a picture – however grim – of what our future world is set to be like.
“Where the Mind Is Without Fear”
Poem in honor of Rabindranath Thakur.