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Bill McGuire : Why climate change means more earthquakes and volcanoes
Linked from the New Weather Institute There is much more to climate Change than the sea-level rising and an increase in weather disasters. Read here
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Megan Darby – UN Shipping Climate Talks ‘Captured’ by Industry
The shipping industry is one of the main cotributors to CO² and nitrogen-oxide. It is hardly regulated with regard to emissions as this article documents. Megan Darby is Climate Home’s deputy editor. She previously wrote […]
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George Monbiot: Opinion Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]
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Mat Hope – How 25 Metres of Country Road Became England’s Fracking Frontline
Mat Hope of DeSmog UK travels to Lancashire and reports about the protests against fracking there. By Mat Hope, éditor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK “There’s something happening,” Nick tells me. […]
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Jason Hickel – Why less is more
GDP has become a fetish. This obsession with major GDP growth makes reducing CO² impossible. The other downside is that GDP growth mainly ends up enriching the 1 %. The solution lies in re-distribution. There […]
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Rolf Kreibich – Democracy and Sustainable Development
For Kreibich the future of Europe depends on the development of democracy and sustainability on the continent. A bold vision and its realisation are necessary to enable Europe to thrive with a secure perspective. Rolf […]
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DeSmog UK – European Parliament: Say No to Fossil Fuel Lobbying at International Climate Talks
We shall see what becomes of this. Read here
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Joanna Gilmore, Will Jackson, Helen Monk – Fracking and state violence in the age of austerity
In Britain austerity has been used by the government to ram through fracking against massive popular opposition. This is an attack on the commons, dispossesing the public of its wealth and its land. Joanna Gilmore […]
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George Monbiot: Who’s the world’s leading eco-vandal? It’s Angela Merkel
From the Guardian Monbiot at his usual best. This is the sort of stuff that mainstream media in its efforts to create a great European stateswoman does not bring. Read here