GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 02 October 2022
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This article addresses the most current research on sea level rise, as well as adaptation measures being taken around the world. Of special interest, brilliant adaptation measures are taking place in the face of higher seas.
“Sea level has been fairly stable for 6,000 years, which is most of human civilization… but it’s risen eight (8) inches or twenty (20) centimeters in the last century, and the rate is tripling right... Read more
By Katie Singer / 28 September 2022
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A field of destroyed solar panels after a storm in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA
Say that a restaurant offers “healthy, natural” chicken soup. How do you know what it means by “healthy” or “natural?” Farmers can cage chickens, feed them genetically-modified soy, wash butchered birds in antibiotics—and still call their chickens natural. Cooks can use lead-coated pots1 and chemically-fertilized vegetables–and... Read more
By Henry Robertson / 24 September 2022
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Solar Ends Growth
Sun shines, winds blow
Plants grow, waters flow
They’re all sunshine in the end
Sunshine is the one great flow
By Don Fitz / 12 September 2022
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Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years than that in the US (69.8 years). As I document in Cuban Health Care, the island quickly caught up to the US and, from 1970 through 2016, the two countries were nip and tuck, with some years Cuba and other years the US, having a longer LE. But... Read more
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By John Feffer / 05 April 2023
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Gustavo Petro doesn’t just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation’s “economy of death.” That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and narcotics toward more sustainable economic activities. Given that oil and coal make up... Read more
By Drew Pendergrass / 03 April 2023
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The realities of the energy transition – repeatedly outlined by the IPCC – make it clear that lives in the Global North must change. The world cannot simply trade out the fossil fuel energy system and replace it with renewables like one would a set of batteries. Expecting everything else to remain the same is a form of science denial.
While putting a price on carbon,... Read more
By Yanqi Xu / 02 April 2023
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Marty Stange kept adding the worrisome maps to a file folder on his desk. Hastings’ veteran environmental supervisor gathered the maps from a 200-square-mile area surrounding the city, aerial photos marked with dots whose size indicates how much uranium is found in the water supply... Hastings’ own wells – those used to supply drinking water to city... Read more
By Mike Bader / 01 April 2023
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Rising tensions between the US and China have led the Biden Administration to announce a campaign for production of rare earth minerals used for production of electric vehicle batteries, parts for jet engines, computer chips and more.... For example, existing and projected cobalt mining in the Panther Creek area in Idaho affects roadless... Read more
By Alex de Jong / 20 March 2023
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IN 1986, MASS protest overthrew Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Thirty-six years later, his son was elected president. The 2022 elections have crowned a decades-long project aimed at returning the Marcos dynasty to power and shown the support for Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism.
By Fergie Chambers / 18 March 2023
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What I saw was a people who had been through hell, and had adjusted to it, all the while unwavering in their commitment to what they see as a fight for self-determination against the reach of the United States and its vassals, especially NATO....This is just my first day, and I am already seeing that the things we’ve been hearing about Donbas are... Read more
By Christos Avramidis / 14 March 2023
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In 2011, workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, stopped receiving wages. Management and owners abandoned the facility shortly afterward. Instead of dispersing, the workers of Vio.Me held an assembly and voted to take over management of the factory themselves. Over the past decade, they’ve kept the factory running, jointly determining... Read more