Economics
Ann Pettifor: Capitalism’s Attack on Time & Nature
Why governments and big oil cannot face the future. Read HERE Pie in the sky – photo: Jonathan McIntosh/Creative Commons
Environment
Environment
Corporate Europe Observatory – Bayer’s Toxic Trails
Market power, monopolies, and the global lobbying of an agrochemical giant Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Photo: Bayer Leverkusen Corporate Europe Observatory takes a deep dive into the present – and dark past – of the German […]
Environment
Equal Times – Despite vastly different social and political contexts, Finland, Germany and France are all grappling with the question of safe nuclear waste disposal
Countries that have produced and relied on nuclear energy, like France, Germany and Finland, all face the same question: how to safely dispose of nuclear waste? Cross-posted from Equal Times Image: Marcin Wichary/Creative Commons “It […]
Climate Crisis
Molly Harriss Olson – Leading with Truth in this Age of Consequences
There is a new understanding amongst sustainability leaders that we are already in the age of consequences, and our previous reticence to publicly explore that together is being overcome through the overwhelming weight of evidence […]
Climate Crisis
Chris Hedges – The Cost of Resistance
11 September 2024 Introduction by Roger Hallam This video is a recording of a talk given by Chris Hedges at the Kairos Club London on September 11, 2024. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance […]
Climate Crisis
Sweta Choudhury – The unprecedented environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Israel’s genocide in Gaza is once again exposing the lethal, planet-warming emissions of wars. Cross-posted from Counterfire One of the most graphic depictions of the environmental costs of war was when 700 of Kuwait’s oil […]
Climate Crisis
Pavle Ilić – The enemy never left the gate: A new round of struggle against lithium exploitation in Serbia
Interesting struggle in Serbia over lithium mining. In ‘Counterfire’. Read the article HERE.
Environment
Transport & Environment: Mining waste – time for EU to clean up
A new legal analysis makes the case for a revision of the EU Extractive Waste Directive. Read HERE
Climate Crisis
James Dyke, Robert Watson, Wolfgang Knorr – The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
By framing climate change in terms of temperature, it focuses on the symptoms, not the cause James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter Robert Watson, Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University […]
Environment
Howard Lisnoff – The Feeding Frenzy of Consumerism and Environmental Destruction
As a society we need to pay attention to the big-ticket consumer items that would slow climate destruction. Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War […]