GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 03 June 2023
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress, as America’s representatives see SMRs as a big answer to energy needs and reduction of greenhouse gases, advertised as a green deal for clean energy that skirts the heavy costs of paying the Middle East billions upon billions. However, the devil in the details is dangerously overlooked.
Notable nuclear accidents: NRX (1952) Kyshtym (1957) Windscale (1957) SL-1 (1961) Wood River Junction (1964) K-... Read more
By Don Fitz and Stan Cox / 31 May 2023
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By Robert Hunziker / 29 May 2023
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The upper atmosphere is cooling too fast for comfort.
Global warming is only one half of the impact of excessive CO2 emissions generated by cars, planes, trains, and industry. The other impact is rapid cooling of the upper atmosphere which may be of considerably more concern than global warming as it negatively impacts the ozone layer, which protects the planet from burning up. Hmm, this is important.
Based upon a new study, atmospheric... Read more
By Katie Singer / 15 May 2023
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Last year, my husband spent $3500 to keep his 2003 Subaru running. In the last two months, he patched two flat tires rather than buy a new set for $1000. A 2010 Subaru Forester costs $10,499, which we don’t have. What to do? We aim to live within our financial and ecological means—and he needs a vehicle that can hold long tree-pruning poles. In this context, I read engineers’ reports related to electric vehicles.
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A “clean,... Read more
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By Sonali Kolhatkar / 28 August 2023
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In San Bernardino, California, where retail giant Amazon has a massive warehouse and fulfillment center, daily temperatures reached triple digits for the majority of days in July and have been dangerously hot all summer. Workers with the Inland Empire Amazon Workers United (IEAWU) protested the dangerous conditions and complained to CAL-OSHA, the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health... Read more
By Russell Gold / 26 August 2023
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About forty miles west of Abilene on Interstate 20, Sweetwater has unwittingly become home to the world’s largest collection of unwanted wind turbine blades. When forklifts deposited the first of these in a field behind the apartment complex where Pamala Meyer lives in 2017, she wasn’t initially bothered. But then the blades—between 150 and 200 feet in... Read more
By Tatyana Novikova / 25 August 2023
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The Norra Karr deposit of rare earth elements is situated in the southern part of Sweden, on the shores of Lake Vattern, one of the largest lakes on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Vast reserves of fresh water coexist here with equally immense reserves of rare earth elements. Lake Vattern provides drinking water to 500,000 households. Farms and homes... Read more
By UC Workers/Union Against State Violence / 23 August 2023
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The true point of production has been hidden from Africans and other colonized peoples of the world. And the white left is guilty of hiding it.
Generally, the most advanced sectors of the white world are those who claim to represent ALL workers. They say that society is capitalist and, in it resides an inexorable contest between the exploiting capitalist class and the exploited working class.... Read more
By Gareth Dale / 20 August 2023
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Finally, degrowthers recognize that the most fundamental human need is for a habitable planet. They are more sober, more clear-eyed than most on the Left in recognizing that facing up to the multiple environmental crises will require much more than nationalization of the energy sector and investments in renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). It requires an extreme reduction in energy use... Read more
By UC Workers/Union Against State Violence / 14 August 2023
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On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, the dominant corporal expression of white power in the world, known collectively as the United States of America, made a formal declaration of war against one important expression of the collective will of Africa and African people to be free when it attacked three members of the Uhuru Movement. (...)
While many people have rushed to the defense of the Uhuru Movement... Read more
By Hannah Sharland / 14 August 2023
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A marginalised community in Aberdeen is fighting a green land-grab for Scotland’s “Energy Transition Zone”. Campaigners from Climate Camp Scotland, This is Rigged, and Scot.E3 demonstrated outside the headquarters of Ironside Farrar in solidarity with residents of Torry. Torry is to be the site of a large-scale industrial development that threatens a... Read more