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By Robert Hunziker / 06 July 2023
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Oceans of the world are in a dangerous red zone that exceeds safe limits for marine and terrestrial life because of excessive heat. Several statements by climate scientists show heightened concerns about how this plays out, as 2023 could be a major inflection point with global warming suddenly turning much worse. For example, the recent work of Annalisa Bracco, Ph.D., Professor School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech, Ocean... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 26 June 2023
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The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to run roughshod over climate change deniers and the mean-spirited anti-climate-change Republican Party. Voters better smarten up by 2024 or suffer the consequences. At least the Democrats enacted a partial baby-sized climate bill. Give’em credit.
Recent reports from... Read more
By Franklin Frederick / 26 June 2023
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Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages. (1) Among the measures announced to address the country’s longest recorded drought in 74 years are the construction of a reservoir and tax exemption for bottled water
Apparently aimed at widening access to bottled water for the less favored strata of the population, the tax exemption proposed as a measure to address the water crisis in Uruguay is the... Read more
Apparently aimed at widening access to bottled water for the less favored strata of the population, the tax exemption proposed as a measure to address the water crisis in Uruguay is the... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 17 June 2023
When one of the world’s most developed culturally elite countries, France, tosses in the towel on the IPCC 2°C barrier, it sends a loud and clear message that the global warming fight is losing the battle.
Seriously, France expects 4°C. The country is bracing for 4°C according to Environment Minister Christophe Béchu: “We can’t escape the reality of global warming.” (Source: ‘We Can’t Escape the Reality’: France is Preparing for 4°C of Warming by 2100, Euronews.green, May 22, 2023).
France’... Read more
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By Joshua Frank / 14 September 2023
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Its Ocean Drilling Ship, a deep sea mining (DSM) vessel [is] the size of a battle cruiser set to be operational by 2024. Instead of weaponry, however, the ship is equipped with advanced excavation equipment capable of drilling at depths of 32,000 feet. On land, the Chinese already hold a virtual monopoly on metals considered vital to “green” energy... Read more
By Walden Bello / 12 September 2023
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By AN INTERVIEW WITH ANAND GOPAL / 10 September 2023
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By Dr Gideon Polya / 10 September 2023
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By Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright / 07 September 2023
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The Biden Administration, along with high ranking democrats including Senate Majority Leader, Charles Schumer, and former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, as well as a slew of acolytes representing centrist environmental organizations, celebrated the one-year signing of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA. 66% to 75% of the IRA’s largesse is in the... Read more
By Arun Gupta / 06 September 2023
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Will there be bananas under socialism? Ben Burgis in the Promethean-leaning Jacobin aligned with pro-growthers when he wrote that “the instinct by at least some participants in Banana Discourse to trivialize concerns about access to consumer goods as a matter of spoiled Americans not being able to imagine giving up their ‘treats’ is deeply misguided... Read more
By Brooke Anderson, Hop Hopkins, Michelle Mascarenhas / 04 September 2023
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Founded in 1892, the organization led the creation of the National Park Service, expanding on a legacy of dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples by insisting that protecting land meant removing it from Indigenous stewardship. “The Population Bomb,” which the Sierra Club published in 1968, was weaponized against poor people and people of... Read more