GST Original Articles

By Robert Hunziker / 16 February 2022
coral.jpg The oceans of the world are undergoing a dangerous and damaging upheaval that manifests throughout scientific studies of late. Whether it’s the fisheries of the Bering Strait or coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea or emaciated Gray Whales along the Pacific coastline, study after study after study describes sudden, sharp downturns in all categories of marine life. What is going on? Global warming is the culprit of this deeply disturbing... Read more
By Mike Nickerson / 09 February 2022
Actions come from thoughts and thoughts from feelings.  “The greenest dollar is the one not spent.” 1  Imagine !     Spending more is what Growth economics is all about.  Humanity is already stretching planetary limits, yet governments almost everywhere encourage more Growth.  Growth that would double—and more—human impacts on our already stressed planet.  It has been said that “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism... Read more
By Helen Yaffe / 06 February 2022
mangroves_at_santa_fe.jpg Cuba, a small island besieged by the United States, is taking concrete measures to reorient its economy in the fight against climate change. It’s an example that the whole world should take seriously.
By Robert Hunziker / 25 January 2022
The world’s oceans in 2021 witnessed the hottest temperatures in recorded history. (Source: Lijing Cheng, et al, Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues Through 2021 Despite La Niña Conditions, Advanced in Atmospheric Sciences, January 11, 2022)
According to the Ocean Conservancy: “From the beginning of industrialization until today, the ocean has absorbed more than 90 percent of the heat from human-caused global warming and about one-third of our carbon emissions. But we are now seeing... Read more

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By Ivan Rajković / 07 June 2022
serbia766x1024.png Demonstrators blocking a highway in Belgrade, Serbia [Photo Credit: Ivan Rajković]. This is the first part of a two-part series on anti-lithium mining protests that have erupted in Serbia over the last several months, and the broader environmental movement around it. Last September, the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel made her farewell... Read more
By Kim Scipes / 03 June 2022
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By Fourth International / 08 May 2022
The ecocidal accumulation of capital threatens the very conditions of human life on the planet.  The Covid pandemic confirms this, insofar as the increase in zoonoses over the last forty years is attributable to the destruction of ecosystems. The global ecological limits of sustainable human development have been crossed in several areas (climate, biodiversity, nitrogen and land use). They are in... Read more
By Rick Sterling / 28 April 2022
The importance of NATO and Ukraine With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, many people in the West believed NATO was no longer needed. NATO claimed to be strictly a defensive alliance and its only rival had disbanded. Brzezinski and other US hawks saw that NATO could be used to expand US hegemony and keep weapons purchases flowing. Thus he wrote that, “an enlarged NATO will... Read more
By Kim Scipes / 24 April 2022
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By Fanny Kinsch / 15 April 2022
3604bf1f6794df86e08d07370459cad7.jpg Daniel Tanuro argued that the energy transition would require an increase in fossil energy, and therefore an increase in emissions. So somewhere along the line, to balance the climate equation, we need to compensate for this by cutting production and transport. He suggested eliminating useless or harmful production, such as... Read more
By Sarah Sleiman / 15 April 2022
126702_20220302environmentalprotestersineastlondon2009_1646241976649.jpg A newly published report has found that the “advanced economies” of the global North rely much more intensively on appropriation of resources and labour from the global South than previous studies have suggested. The authors of the study bring forward the hidden costs of traded goods from... Read more

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