Category: Biodiversity / Biodevastation
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Educational Pluralism” Another Name for Privatization
Johns Hopkins University and The 74 teamed up one more time to satisfy their billionaire donors and promote privatizing public education. Ashley Berner, Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, is featured in a The 74 interview entitled “‘We’re the Outliers’: Ashley Rogers Berner on Public Funding for Private Schools.” She notes that…
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Three quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on earth’
New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earth’s land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils.
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While plastic dominates human consumption, the global economy will remain hooked on fossil fuels
Over half of all plastics ever made were produced in the past 25 years, and production levels are estimated to double or triple again by 2050. And more production brings more waste.
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Capitalism: The Director of Degradation
So, is environmental degradation truly linked to poverty? Not entirely. While poverty may contribute to some unsustainable practices, affluence and the capitalist system that fuels it, is the real culprit.
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“The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet” by Jeff Goodell –A Review Essay by Kim Scipes
Review essay of Jeff Goodell’s excellent book, but critiques Goodell for not putting in larger context which is necessary for more complete understanding.
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Critical metals and the side effects of electrification
In Power Metal, Beiser explains why we would need drastic increases in mining of critical metals – including copper, nickel, cobalt, lithium, and the so-called “rare earths” – if we were to run anything like the current global economy solely on renewable electricity.
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Africa’s grassroots voices on the climate crisis must be heard
Okakah describes the carbon credit system as a “greenwashing” tool: “Carbon credits are a scam. They allow the rich to pollute while pretending to care. Meanwhile, in Africa, our forests, lands, and communities are exploited to prop up this global hypocrisy. Its colonialism rebranded for the climate age.”
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Niger Resists in the Crosshairs of Sanctions and Climate Catastrophe
The Sahel-wide flooding between June and October has exacted a particularly high toll on the people of Niger, destroying crops, cattle, houses and infrastructure in one of the world’s poorest countries whose economy had already been strangled by the seven month-long sanctions. By late September, at least 339 were killed, many more injured, and 1.1…
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COP29 Summit Marked by Acrimonious Debate Over Emissions and Finance
The imperialist states of North America and Western Europe have consistently avoided any admission of culpability for the worsening environmental situation. What has transpired over the decades since the UN Climate Summits were initiated is that false promises of monetary compensation and assistance have been made by the industrial states while none of these pledges…
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Some thoughts on Richard Heinberg’s “Envisioning a Livable Future”
The action has to be on the demand side; that is, on transitioning to lifestyles and systems that enable dramatic reduction in resource use. The solution has to be a Simpler Way, involving far resource-simpler lifestyles and systems.
