The Global Climate Crisis – 3 Articles
‘The Wobbling Planet – It’s Destabilizing!’; ‘Global Heating isn’t Just Getting Worse. It is Getting Worse Faster’; and: ‘Climate Change is Making Hurricanes More Destructive’.
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From the Rockies to Stockholm: Ignoring the Global Crisis
A significant economic slowdown into stagnation, alongside still relatively high inflation; a crippling debt burden for the majority of the world’s population eking out a bare living; and an accelerating climate crisis—none of these issues will be discussed in the Rockies or in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.
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From Media Darling to Persona Non Grata: Greta Thunberg’s Journey
As Greta Thunberg has widened her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza she has labeled a “genocide”, the global elite has dropped her, and coverage of her in the newspapers has drastically fallen.
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1.5 is Dead; Ocean Acidification has Crossed Planetary Boundary – 2 Articles
“1.5 is Dead: How Hot Will the Earth Get?”; and: “‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study”.
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3.6 Million Indians are Losing Homes to Climate Change Every Year, But No Law Requires the State to Help Them
More than 56 million Indians lost their homes over 15 years to floods, erosion, landslides and other growing disasters related to climate change, but neither a 2005 law nor its 2024 amendment provides for relocation and resettlement.
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Vizhinjam was a Mistake Waiting to Happen
The sinking of MSC ELSA 3 and its impact on Kerala’s coast isn’t a freak accident—it’s the fallout of building a port on a fragile coastline.
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The Rights of Nature: Two Articles
The Rights of Nature: A Redefinition of Human-Nature Relations’: The idea of granting nature its own rights (or recognising them) is not entirely new. It raises fundamental questions about the relationship between humans and nature. Also: ‘The Recognition of Rights of Nature: A Global Paradigm Change’.
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Why All of Kerala Says No to Deep-Sea Mining
New Delhi’s decision to auction 13 offshore mineral blocks for deep-sea mining is being opposed by the fish workers. The ruling Left Democratic Front and the opposition Congress are also opposed to it. They fear it will ruin marine biodiversity and fishing livelihoods.
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Ecology is the World’s Permanent Economy
Acknowledging this principle will lead to a focus on ecological health as the basis for human survival, economic stability and climate resilience.
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Humans Have Observed Less Than 0.001% of the Deep Seafloor
New research shows why deep sea mining is a bad idea.
