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The COP26 global climate summit marks a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. Prof Chomsky talks on the roots of our current dire predicament and on humanity’s prospects for emerging from this crisis into a livable future.
The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change.
Press release by NAPM, extending full solidarity and support to the crucial 10-day long foot march undertaken by hundreds of adivasis from the Hasdeo region of Chhattisgarh to protect their forests and home lands from destructive coal mining.
In the run-up to COP26, considered by many to be a last-chance opportunity to make meaningful change on climate, Thunberg talks with NBC News’ Al Roker about what she expects—and hopes—will come from the global event.
Chhattisgarh-based lawyer Sudiep Shrivastava says that the stories about massive coal shortage in power plants are false, and are deliberately being floated to set narrative to amend Coal Bearing Area (Acquisition and Development) Act 1957, in favour of private coal miners in next session.
The goals and targets are based on questionable assumptions made without reference to past experiences of oil palm cultivation.
The Adivasis and Dalit farmers have opposed mining in Mail Parbat due to environmental reasons and religious sentiments.
“The climate crisis has not disappeared,” said Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. “It’s the opposite—it’s even more urgent now than it was before.”
As climate change will impact water availability in the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra, megacities like Delhi and Lahore will face the brunt, finds a study.
The path to an ecological civilization is paved by reclaiming the commons—our common home, the Earth, and the commons of the Earth family, of which we are a part. Reclaiming the commons and creating an ecological civilization go hand in hand.
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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