10C Above Baseline
Earth at 10°C above pre-industrial is a deadly horrifying thought, but it should not be dismissed out of hand.
Pandemic: How Big Banks and Big AG Share Blame
Trump blaming the pandemic solely on China is not only misleading, but hypocritical – as US agri-business corporations are equally responsible.
Halt Destruction of Nature or Suffer Even Worse Pandemics, Say World’s Top Scientists
Only one species is responsible for coronavirus – humans – say world’s leading wildlife experts.
Avenger Planet: Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature’s Response to Human Transgression?
Michael T. Klare As the coronavirus sweeps across the planet, leaving death and mayhem in its wake, many theories are being expounded to explain its ferocity. One, widely circulated within right-wing conspiracy circles, is that it originated as a biological weapon developed at a secret Chinese military lab in the city of Wuhan that somehow…
Kill GDP to Help Save the Planet
Robert Hunziker There’s a problem with America’s (and we’d like to add, India’s – editor) favourite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s the biggest measure of what’s happening with the economy and used around the world, even though…
This Won’t Be Breaking News: CO2 Levels Hit Record High of 416 ppm
Jessica Corbett The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high Monday, a reading from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that elicited fresh calls from climate activists and scientists for the international community to end planet-heating emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation. According to NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory, an…
On Fire This Time
John Bellamy Foster We are seeing today what appear to be the beginnings of an ecological revolution, a new historical moment unlike any humanity has experienced.(1) Not only is the planet burning, but a revolutionary climate movement is rising up and is now on fire in response. Here is a brief chronology of the…
How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning Planet
James Plested The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather—cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves. It’s burning forests in Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Siberia, Canada and California. It’s melting ice caps, receding glaciers and rising seas. It’s…
The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, a Global Movement Unleashed
Erika Spanger-Siegfried We’ve all just lived through a most consequential ten years. Some decades, like the 1860s for the Civil War and the 1960s for the Civil Rights Movement, are seismic and stand out in history for generations. The 2010s weren’t like that (though politically it’s been one long mixed-martial arts cage fight)…
Closer Than Ever: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin Editor’s note: Founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to…