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Bill Mitchell: The green growth paradigm has a long tradition – which has never been supportable
l usage. But that pathway is in my view incompatible with the capitalist logic. Read HERE
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Corporate Europe Observatory – The Carbon Coup: how corporate capture is locking Europe into a fossil-fuelled future
The EU has an obsession with an inefficient technology as a means of reducing industrial carbon emissions. The money could be better spent elsewhere, this study suggests. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Carbon Capture from […]
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Jodie Keane – New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’
A series of new EU rules are set to increase costs for global south companies when exporting to Europe, an approach which is supposed to tackle climate change but may simply increase poverty. Jodie Keane […]
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GPEnewsdocs: Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do […]
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Maria Mesquita, António Assunção – April’s Eleven: Political trial on the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution
Two activists, who are currently facing charges alongside nine others for protesting climate breakdown, argue that we must take inspiration in how to change the system from the revolution which overthrew Portugal’s fascist dictatorship half […]
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Melissa Garriga – Don’t Let Warmongers Greenwash Their Ecocide This Earth Day
Destruction to the environment and acceleration of the climate crisis happen silently under the veil of “national security,” despite the fact that the environmental toll of war is the most significant threat. Melissa Garriga is […]
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Bill McKibben – Capitalism Is Acting Truly Suicidally on Climate
If Amazon and Apple and Microsoft wanted to avoid a world where, by century’s end, people had 60% less money to spend on buying whatever they plan on selling, then they should be putting pressure […]
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Giuliana Viglione – Climate change ‘bait and switch’ threatens sharks and rays
Cold-blooded sea creatures seeking refuge from warming ocean waters may find themselves at increasing risk of deadly cold shocks due to changes in ocean currents, new research warns. Giuliana Viglione has a PhD in environmental […]
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Robert Hunziker – The Death of Paris ‘15
Oil producers should be getting shutdown by now if the Paris climate agreement meant anything. Instead, they plan to quadruple output by 2030. Cross-posted from Counterpunch The Paris climate agreement of 2015 set the standards […]
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ARC – Goodbye Green and Fair, Hello Fortress Europe – Eco Ambitions dropped from EU leaders’ draft 5-year plan
It’s back to the future as the EU’s green ambitions face the chopping block, with priorities shifting to security and competition. That’s according to the European Council’s vision for the next 5 years, as revealed […]