77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming – and They’re Horrified
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77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming – and They’re Horrified

Nearly 80% of top-level climate scientists expect that global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5°C by 2100, while only 6% thought the world would succeed in limiting global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, a survey published Wednesday by ‘The Guardian’ revealed.

The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
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The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet

The vast majority—more than 67 percent of crop calories grown in the U.S.—are used to feed animals raised for human consumption. Rather than feeding people, these crops feed the billions of chickens, cows, pigs, and other animals who live and die on factory farms. And that’s a problem.

Thirty Years of Failure on Climate: How Did it Come to This?
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Thirty Years of Failure on Climate: How Did it Come to This?

The reason for the climate crisis is the ever-increasing profits being generated by the global capitalist class from the exploitation of the world’s human and natural resources. The captains of industry and the politicians who serve them are therefore determined to preserve the status quo as long as possible.

Dangers of Releasing Fukushima’s Radioactive Wastewater into the Pacific Ocean – 2 Articles
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Dangers of Releasing Fukushima’s Radioactive Wastewater into the Pacific Ocean – 2 Articles

The IAEA is hiding dangers of releasing Fukushima’s radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean? Also: ‘Fukushima: Japan’s Triple Threat in Spades’: Japan too indulging in media manipulation and information control to hide the dangers of the radioactive water release.

We Must Reckon With the Most Dangerous System of Extinction Humans Ever Created
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We Must Reckon With the Most Dangerous System of Extinction Humans Ever Created

Charles Derber, author of ‘Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It’, discusses how the myth of American exceptionalism undermines the solutions to the existential threats we face today, why “green capitalism” is an oxymoron, and the need to confront a “triangle of extinction.”