Environmental Cost of Green Revolution: India World’s Second-Highest Fertilizer Importer
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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.

Extreme Weather Events Occurring with Increasing Frequency in India and USA – 2 Articles
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Extreme Weather Events Occurring with Increasing Frequency in India and USA – 2 Articles

‘Extreme Weather in India: A Disaster Nearly Every Day’: India has seen a disaster nearly every day this year – from heat and cold waves, cyclones and lightning to heavy rain, floods and landslides. Also: ‘US Has Faced a Record 23 Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters in 2023’.

COP28: The Mirage That Capitalism Can Solve its Destruction
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COP28: The Mirage That Capitalism Can Solve its Destruction

The COP28 summit taking place in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec is a colossal illusion. The delusionary effect is that the capitalist system is capable of reforming itself sufficiently to prevent global climate catastrophe, even as all the evidence points to the opposite conclusion.

COP28: Another Failure of the UN Climate Negotiations; Top 1% Emit Over 1,000 Times More CO2 Than Bottom 1%
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COP28: Another Failure of the UN Climate Negotiations; Top 1% Emit Over 1,000 Times More CO2 Than Bottom 1%

‘Despicable Derailment of UN Climate Negotiations’: There is nothing to suggest that COP28 will manifest anything other than another failure of the UN climate negotiations. Also: “The world’s top 1% of emitters over 1,000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%.” – this is not from Oxfam, but the International Energy Agency.

Air Pollution: It Is Not Just the Farmers Who are Responsible – 2 Articles
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Air Pollution: It Is Not Just the Farmers Who are Responsible – 2 Articles

Historically, stubble burning contributes only 6% to the pollution, yet the public is quick to make the farmers the scapegoats, and not the policymakers. Also: Urgent action is needed to tackle multiple sources of pollution, from vehicles to construction to stubble burning.