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.
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Climate Activists Should Not Support Nuclear; US Nuke Sites Leaking Everywhere – Two Articles
10 reasons why nuclear power is still no solution for climate change; Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping.
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Keeping Count: Two Poems
Keeping Count; Lost Home.
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In Madhya Pradesh’s Buxwaha Forest, a Diamond Mine Could Claim Two Lakh Trees
The project is facing resistance due to ecological concerns and also because the locals fear it would lead to loss of livelihood.
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What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
Creation of all forms of energy contributes to the destruction of nature and human life. It is possible to increase the global quality of life at the same time we reduce the use of fossil fuels and other sources of energy. Therefore, a “deep” GND would focus on energy reduction / conservation.
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Red Alert: Only One Earth
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Making Peace with Nature (2021), highlights the ‘gravity of the Earth’s triple environmental emergencies: climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution’.
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Global Warming: Stop the Madness, Get Real – Two Articles
World may reach 1.5°C warming by 2025; Climate scientists: Concept of Net Zero by 2050 is a dangerous trap.
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Throughout the Pandemic, Environmental Clearance Law Has Been Under the Chopping Block
Even the global health crisis that unfolded in the past year has not deterred the current government from executing its plans for ‘ease of doing business’.
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Chernobyl Alert and the Doomsday Clock
Like the mythical Phoenix, Chernobyl rises from the ashes. And, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the world-famous Doomsday Clock, that measures humanity’s nearness to utter annihilation, at 100 seconds to midnight.
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Dinesh Mohan: Contrarian Scholar Who Championed Public Transport – Two Obituaries
Dinesh Mohan had a heart and was a great supporter of public transport, auto rickshaw, cycle rickshaw, pedestrians. He was not opposed to cars but he was certainly against monopolization of street space by cars. He was also an extraordinary faculty member and a public intellectual.
