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
Corruption
Romania-Insider: Tens of thousands join first big protest of the year in Romania
Romania’s government, expecially the Social Democrats, is thoroughly corrupt. Its people are protesting relentlessly and in great numbers against this. While Poland and Hungary remain in the headlines of commercial media the political situation in […]
Austerity
The Guardian: More UK children homeless or in temporary housing than during crash crisis
While the Conservative government continues unperturbed its austerity programme the dramatic consequences for society are becoming increasingly visible. The tragedy is that behind all these neutral numbers there are real human beings. Read here
Climate Crisis
PIK: Increase in heatwaves in western Europe linked to changes in the jet stream
Heatwaves over Europe have increased three to four times faster than in the rest of the northern mid-latitudes like e.g. the US or Canada, a new study finds. An international team of scientists looked at […]
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