What Did COP27 Achieve? – Two Articles
COP27 Achieved Nothing. No Surprise; and: COP27 Continues the Climate Summit Ritual of Words Without Action.
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‘Capital’s Attack on Nature Endangers Humanity’
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.
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Fossil Drugs: Antibiotics as the Fossil Fuels of Medicine
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.
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When the Spiritual and Scientific Meet in Satyagraha: Matri Sadan Saints’ Lonely Attempts to Protect Ganga River Need Wide Support
Matri Sadan, established in 1997, has emerged as a hub of saints and activists undertaking satyagraha to protect Ganga river.
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Greenland is Worse Than Ever, Much Worse
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.
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Promoting Sustainable Agriculture in India – Two Articles
“In Odisha, Seed Banks are Bringing Back Traditional and Organic Methods of Farming”; and “Sustainable Agriculture: Bringing Indian Farmers on Board”.
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When It Rains, It Pours Misery
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.
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Africa Confronts the Food, Fertilizer, and Climate Crisis
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.
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When Will Climate Change Become the Crucial Issue in American Elections?
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!
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Cop27: The Dirty Secret Europe Is Hiding at the Climate Summit
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.
