Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
Despite industry rhetoric, hydroelectricity is high-cost and high-risk. There are better options for a post-pandemic recovery and a renewable energy future.
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Capitalism | China | Climate Change | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
Heating the Planet Through a New Cold War
If Joe Biden genuinely believes that climate change is an “existential threat”, it’s crucial that he stop the slide toward a new cold war with China and start working with Beijing to speed the transition to a green-energy economy focused on ensuring global compliance with the Paris climate agreement.
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UN Report: Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency
Urgent appeal to end the ‘senseless and suicidal’ war on nature by transforming social and economic systems.
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Ecocide! – Three Articles
Unless we address Ecocide, the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity, life on earth is in danger; Global ice melt is taking place much faster than predicted; Scientists say freezing Texas linked to warming Arctic.
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On Thin Ice: How Climate Change Is Wrecking the Himalaya
As temperatures rise, glaciers are retreating, ice and snow are disappearing and water scarcity is rising. An examination of how this is affecting Himalayan communities.
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Tuvalu as Metaphor for Black America
The people of Tuvalu are losing access to significant portions of their livable land mass, due largely to the actions of people in the western world, especially the United States.
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Who is Disha Ravi, the Climate Activist Arrested by Delhi Police?
Ravi is a 21-year old who volunteers with Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Socialism Is the Only Realistic Solution to Climate Change
Capitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.
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Covid, Climate, and ‘Dual Metabolic Rupture’
A Dual Metabolic Rupture between humanity and the planet is taking place, as industrial pollution destroys our ecosystem, and agribusiness generates wave after wave of killer pathogen. Globalised, financialised monopoly-capitalism has become an existential threat to life on Earth.
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Climate and Environmental Crisis: Sorcerer’s Apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
An analysis of what the World Bank and the IMF have done in connection with the environmental crisis and climate change, even as the crisis continues to worsen.
