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Man-made chemicals have exceeded the limits of safety for the planet. This statement comes from the first-ever major scientific warning based upon a study of the dangers posed by the flood of chemicals across the globe as 350,000 chemicals slosh throughout the planet.
Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A quick explanation of two main ways global warming is affecting ocean levels and their threat to the coasts.
Author Mridula Ramesh talks about how, historically, India was aware of how special water was and had devised ways to manage it in a decentralised manner, which is also needed today to solve India’s water crisis.
A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization warns that practices farmers are using to boost agricultural productivity – irrigating more land and applying heavier doses of fertilizer and pesticides – are not sustainable: they have degraded soil and polluted and depleted water supplies.
Press Release: Demand Immediate and Complete Withdrawal of Proposed Biodiversity Act Amendment Bill 2021; Also – Environmental clearance is being given to projects at a breakneck speed.
Pandemic in India has seen a majority of its citizens going hungry to bed while another, smaller, section making millions. An inclusive, sustainable, and equitable recovery must deal with the triple crisis of the economy, health and climate.
Socialists should be clear that the cause of the climate crisis is the capitalist system and its incessant drive to accumulate profits, and that the only way to solve the crisis is to struggle for a socialist world where human need, including a sustainable relation to nature, comes before private greed.
Scientists are now discovering the extent to which aquatic animals produce sound, and the role that their grunts, pops, growls and whines play in communication.
The ever-growing conflict between ecology and capitalism reflects the startling degree to which profit-making has become the primary and most powerful connection between human beings and between human beings and nature.
We have the skills and intelligence, if we so choose to utilize these abilities, to aggressively address climate change, the problem that we are directly responsible for creating. But will we?
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