Professor Steve Keen and others warn that record heatwaves, floods, fires and intensifying storms halt commerce, damage crops, create uninsurable areas, and impair infrastructure. Pension funds rely too heavily on sanguine consultant forecasts and underestimate the financial impact of climate change on their portfolios
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: Novelist JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’
Nobel laureate warns former supporters of Israel are turning away from country over bloodshed in Gaza Read Article HERE Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
Environment
San Francisco Chronicle – Court upholds $25.2 million in damages in Bayer Roundup herbicide cancer case
A federal appeals court upheld $25.2 million in damages Friday for a Bay Area man who contracted cancer after spraying Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on his property for more than 26 years, the first federal court […]
Fake News
Wolfgang Munchau – What happened to the Fourth Estate? (It is still there. But fading.)
What happened is that the old media are still pursuing the same model of selling stories. What they should be doing instead is providing information – the stuff that is in the public interest that […]
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