We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. On the other hand, it is also a social crisis: several billion people are deprived of access to basic goods and services. More than 40 percent of the human population cannot afford nutritious food; 50 percent do not have safely managed sanitation facilities; 70 percent do not have necessary health care.
Climate Crisis
The Guardian: BBC’s London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest
Extinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’ Read here
EU politics
RTE: More Catholics than Protestants for first time in Northern Ireland Census
More people in Northern Ireland are Catholics than Protestants for the first time in its 101-year history, the latest census figures show. The census reveals that of the resident population, 45.7% are either Catholic or […]
EU politics
Sinn Féin: Carthy forces ECB to reveal it profited by 73 billion from eurozone misery
A Sinn Féin member of the European parliement, Matt Carthy, has exposed the fact that the European Central Bank made profits of 73 billion euros from the Securities Market Programme used to “aid” the peripheral […]
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