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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
It is not the kisans of Punjab who are responsible for the environmental damage being done by the present pattern of agriculture. What stands in the way of a solution is the rulers’ own determination to restructure India’s agriculture and food system in favour of imperialism.
The monks are protesting sand mining and the construction of dams and barrages on the river and its tributaries.
The loss of soil organic matter and the corresponding massive carbon relocation to the atmosphere (as carbon dioxide) constitutes the soil carbon rift. It ultimately leads to severe degradation of soil. It is estimated that about one-third of the world’s soils have become significantly degraded.
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. We need to take urgent steps to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy.
Despite all of the inevitable contradictions, China stands out in the present planetary emergency in having a leadership that has advanced an ambitious vision of ecological civilization with the strong support of the Chinese population, incorporating this directly into its five-year plans.
The WTO once again succumbed to pressure from the pharma corporations that argued that waiving patents would fundamentally undermine the global response to COVID-19 without providing any significant benefits to underdeveloped nations. A completely fraudulent argument!
The rise of second-wave feminism alongside environmental movements in the 1970s led to the emergence of ‘ecosocialist feminist’ politics which saw a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world due to capitalism and the subordination and oppression of women.
In her first statement after her arrest, climate activist Disha Ravi talks about her time in custody, the unfair media portrayal she received, the other rights activists in jail who are still languishing, and reiterates her support to climate justice and the farmers protest.
COVID-19, SARS and Ebola—three diseases that spread across national borders since 2002—share one thing in common: they were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests, which are losing more than 100 trees per second due to rampant, unsustainable deforestation.
Pollution markets and green finance are forms of profit accumulation, not practical tools for sustainable development.
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