Our Billionaires are Blasting Off…Good Riddance!
We don’t need billionaires out to “conquer space.” We need to conquer inequality.
No Climate Future Without System Change
The climate movement can challenge the capitalist system that threatens to destroy the conditions for life and civilisation on this planet only in international cooperation with the workers’ struggle, the women’s struggle, the fight against racism, and other movements.
Investigation: Hidden Water Crisis Behind India’s Sugar Dominance
Villagers living in the Uttar Pradesh sugar belt bear the brunt of poorly implemented environmental regulations and water scarcity
A Billion South Asians Face Water Insecurity Due to Warming in the Himalayas
Warming-induced changes in the Himalaya-Karakoram region will impact water availability in the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins. Farming, hydropower and megacities such as Delhi & Lahore will face the brunt.
The Looming Arctic Collapse – Two Articles
Previously solid ground is quickly degrading. The melting of the permafrost is about to cause huge damage to buildings and infrastructure across the country, Russia’s natural resource minister warns. Also: Rapidly Thawing Permafrost Threatens Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Is AltE Truly the Best Solution to Climate Catastrophe?
There is a widespread belief that supporting “alternative energy” (AltE) allows everyone on Earth to pursue a lifestyle of endless consumerism. It avoids the real problem, which is capitalism’s uncontrollable drive for economic growth.
The Dubious Record of the UN Champion of the Earth
In 2018, PM Narendra Modi was awarded the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth’ award. This, despite the fact that among the first things the Modi government set to work on after assuming office for the first time in 2014 was dismantling the laws that protect the environment.
25 Years of PESA: Violations and Attempts at Dilution
The Act, which aimed to decentralise power and empower indegneous communities, has completed 25 years in existence, but faces glaring incompetence, gross violations and structural loopholes.
The Double Deformation
Economic exploitation is only one aspect of capitalism. The crisis of humanity and the crisis of the earth system are inseparable.
Climate Change: More Terrifying News – Two Articles
Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life; Lethal Heat Hits the Planet.