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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘Extreme Weather in India: A Disaster Nearly Every Day’: India has seen a disaster nearly every day this year – from heat and cold waves, cyclones and lightning to heavy rain, floods and landslides. Also: ‘US Has Faced a Record 23 Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters in 2023’.
The COP28 summit taking place in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec is a colossal illusion. The delusionary effect is that the capitalist system is capable of reforming itself sufficiently to prevent global climate catastrophe, even as all the evidence points to the opposite conclusion.
‘Despicable Derailment of UN Climate Negotiations’: There is nothing to suggest that COP28 will manifest anything other than another failure of the UN climate negotiations. Also: “The world’s top 1% of emitters over 1,000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%.” – this is not from Oxfam, but the International Energy Agency.
A high-ranking group of rebellious climate scientists claim the IPCC’s upper temperature limits of 1.5°C to 2.0°C are too high and disruptive to sound policy. These scientists have published a rousing 74-page Preprint: ‘Bad Science and Good Intentions Prevent Effective Climate Action’.
Fossil fuel pollution kills more people each year than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.
Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple weeks in the pristine complex known as Dubai. World leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and fossil fuel producers will clash over the outlook for climate change and the impact of global warming, or should it be called global heating?
The actions we take now will determine Earth’s climate for 5,000 generations.
‘Disasters in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand Point to Flawed Development Model’; ‘Why Landslides, Happening Extensively Across the Himalayas, are Likely to Get Worse’; ‘Chilly Winter Awaits Thousands of Homeless Households Following Himalayan Disasters’.
The capitalist mode of production is in a ‘polycrisis’, that is, where various crises – economic (inflation and slump); environmental (climate and pandemic); and geopolitical (war and international divisions) – have come together in the early 21st century. An update of this polycrisis.
The WWF estimates that natural water resources account for a hefty $58 trillion Economic Value, which is equivalent to 60% of the global GDP. But, human activities have been spiralling down the freshwater ecosystems globally.
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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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