Environment
Saeed Bagheri: The Silent Victim of Israel’s War on Gaza
More than 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been destroyed in Gaza since October. Read HERE Photo: RafahKid Kid/Creative Commons
Environment
Climate Crisis
Arthur Nelsen – The EU’s great green retreat benefits capitalism. For the rest of us, it’s a looming disaster
Environmental pledges are being shredded to please agribusiness and appease extremists. It’s a terrible mistake, but only a fool would have expected anything different Arthur Nelsen is a journalist Cross-posted from Other News The EU’s […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – “What Economists Don’t Know about Climate Science Can Kill Us”
26 March 2024 Infuriated at how those in our financial system insist on stubbornly investing in the exact opposite of what everyone on Earth—including them—needs to ensure stable planetary systems? Prof. Steve Keen, delves into […]
Environment
Angela Hilmi, Emile Frison – Farmer Protests: The Wrong U-Turn
Farmers and the environment do not have divergent interests, quite the opposite. What European farmers don’t have any interest in is EU agricultural policies which impoverish them. Angela Hilmi is a panel expert with IPES-Food […]
Climate Crisis
Jackson Damian – Minimisation Is The New Denial: climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero
Mainstream climate scientists run the risk of becoming the new climate deniers Jackson Damian is a climate advocate and psychotherapist. He provides a psychological perspective on the collective madness that creates dangerous climate change and […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Heinberg – No, It’s Not the Anthropocene; Try ‘The Great Burning’
Is it better to think of ecological breakdown as an event or a durable new regime? Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of fourteen books, including his […]
Environment
Ellie McLaughlin – Stop the hidden subsidy to fossil giants: why the Bank of England’s collateral framework matters
The Bank of England is handing an advantage to damaging sectors by favouring their companies’ bonds as collateral Elli McLaughlin is Positive Money’s senior policy and advocacy officer Cross-posted from Positive Money Bank of England […]
Climate Crisis
Naomi Oreskes: The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution
Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2 Read HERE
Environment
Morgan Ody, Vincent Delobel: Farmers’ protests in Europe and the deadend of neoliberalism
Scrapping environmental protections will not solve the agricultural crisis in Europe Morgan Ody is a vegetable farmer from Brittany, France and General Coordinator of La Via Campesina Vincent Delobel is a Walloon farmer, is a […]
Energy
Julia Conley: Denmark Finds ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ of Nord Stream—But Ends Probe With No Charges
This debacle is symbolic of the extent of European subordination to the US: governments are terrified to find proof of American involvement. Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Cross-posted from Common Dreams […]