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  • Making Sense of the Latest IPCC Report (2023)

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    Making Sense of the Latest IPCC Report (2023) –Kim Scipes   The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a UN agency with climatologists from over 70 counties included) has just come out with a new report about climate change.  (Available at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/.)  The news is not good. Basically, their arguments have gotten more refined, more…

  • Gaining Revolutionary Perspective

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    Revolutionary thoughts   Karl Marx’s (1859) Preface to a Critique of Political Economy represents one of his major contributions to human thought. It has probably been more influential than any other in the social sciences and has served as a guide to revolutionary thinkers and activists across the intervening decades. We suggest ruminating on the following passage…

  • Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction

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    rsburke

    Such a ludicrously tenuous situation clearly demonstrates that the only rational model of geopolitics capable of avoiding catastrophe, whether due to nuclear annihilation or collective climate suicide, is some sort of world government.

  • The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun

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    Scientists disagree on the timeline of collapse and whether it's imminent. But can we afford to be wrong? And what comes after?

  • The Dangerous Methane Mystery

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    The East Siberian Arctic Shelf (“ESAS”) is the epicenter of a methane-rich zone that could turn the world upside down.   Still, the ESAS is not on the radar of mainstream science, and not included in calculations by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and generally not well understood. It is one of the…

  • Pompeo’s Arctic Shipping Lanes

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    America’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at the prestigious Arctic Council biannual meeting in Finland, christened the Arctic meltdown: “A wonderful economic opportunity for international trade.” In a nutshell, here’s a critique of the Secretary’s advice: An ice-free Arctic reduces travel time for shipping lanes between Asia and the West by three weeks, which…

  • Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal

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    On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: “For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.”   According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us.…

  • Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems

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    The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued a report on the status of arthropods in rainforests (Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia, Climate-Driven Declines in Arthropod Abundance Restructure a Rainforest Food Web, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722477115). The report’s shocking analysis discovered a collapsing food web in tropical rainforests. Oh please!…

  • Toward a Socialist Land Ethic: the Foundation of an Ecosocialist Future

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      There will be no future on a dead planet, socialist or otherwise. If the left is to seize power and bring our planet into the rational egalitarian age we envision, we will need to simultaneously tackle a host of environmental crises. Failure to do so will mean that our project is doomed from the…