Climate Crisis
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
Sustainability
Climate Crisis
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 […]
Climate Crisis
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 […]
Energy
Hulya Dagdeviren – Control of the Energy Sector
The British government’s energy policy is marked by poor performance and high costs for consumers. While energy companies rake in massive profits and repeatedly introduce steep price increases, they treat their customers with contempt and neglect. There is great […]
Sustainability
The Guardian: Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
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 […]
Sustainability
ICCT: Whac-A-Mole on the high seas: The curious case of ship emissions
Annual emissions from the world’s merchant fleet have reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO², or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of this greenhouse gas. Read here
EU politics
Left Foot Forward: Excessive and bullying police tactics show how the fracking debate is being lost in the UK
Fracking in Britain is an issue that has caused a great deal of protest at the local Level – and massive police repression. See our in depth article on the topic here Read here
Climate Crisis
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. […]
Climate Crisis
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 […]
Climate Crisis
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 […]