New Research Raises Fresh Doubts About India’s River Linking Plans
A long-standing plan to shift water between rivers in north-central India powers on, despite new science that casts doubt on its efficacy, and concerns over major ecological impacts.
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So Long, and Thanks For All the Hamburgers
It’s not true that humanity is committing suicide, as exemplified by the COP28 farce of a climate summit. The world’s industrialists and financiers are committing humanity to ecocide. More than ever, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
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Environmental Cost of Green Revolution: India World’s Second-Highest Fertilizer Importer
Recent research shows that the environmental costs of the Green Revolution are as severe as its economic impacts. In Punjab, India’s top Green Revolution state, heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides has contaminated water, soil and food and endangered human health.
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Global Warming Slices and Dices Greenland
One more UN Conference of the Parties, COP28, has flopped. The short-term financial interests of a few have again won over the health, lives and livelihoods of most people living on this planet. Meanwhile, new research has identified extremely disturbing deep trouble brewing in Greenland.
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Sweden Is Giving Elon Musk a Taste of Union Strength
Over the past several weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been getting a taste of what it’s like to operate a business in a part of the world where unions still have formidable power.
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Farce at COP28 – 2 Articles
‘COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat’. Also: ‘Climate Summit at the Petroleum Kingdom’.
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Bhopal Gas Disaster Scar Never Healed; Join the Struggle for ‘No More Bhopals’!
Saturday marked 39 years of the horror when methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Indian subsidiary of the now-defunct American firm Union Carbide Corporation killing thousands.
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The Silkyara Tunnel Collapse Reminds Us Exactly How Contentious the Char Dham Project Is
Despite the successful rescue operation of 41 miners trapped in the Silkyara tunnel collapse, it is essential to understand the problems with the larger Char Dham project, to prevent similar disasters in the future.
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Panama’s Massive Environmental Awakening
Beyond the traditional anti-mining movement, the protests have been effective in swaying or crystalizing public opinion against mining, even among some pro-extractive sectors. Indeed, the mobilizations may be labeled paradigm-changing.
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IPCC Rebellion
A high-ranking group of rebellious climate scientists claim the IPCC’s upper temperature limits of 1.5°C to 2.0°C are too high and disruptive to sound policy. These scientists have published a rousing 74-page Preprint: ‘Bad Science and Good Intentions Prevent Effective Climate Action’.
