Climate Crisis
DW – Heat wave: European countries report 3,700 excess deaths
Climate breakdown kills. Read the article HERE.
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Climate Crisis
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri – Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
It’s difficult to imagine how people could survive in the context of permanent heatwaves, but that scenario is no longer a distant prospect. Dr Oluwafemi Adeyeri is a Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence […]
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Michael Roberts – COP 30: it’s no joke
COP30 was devastatingly horrendous – we are without question heading for disastrous climate breakdown. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger.Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The usual joke about […]
Austerity
José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]
Climate Crisis
Jawad Khalid – The Global South Is Drowning in Climate Debt
The global south is taking the brunt of extreme weather driven by climate-change, despite pumping the least CO2 into the atmosphere, while at the same time it has to respond to disasters by deepening its […]
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Michael Roberts – From the Rockies to Stockholm: ignoring the global crisis
Debt distress across the global south and the mounting evidence of climate breakdown are major crises which are not even on the radar of the G7 and the Bilderberg group as they meet this week. […]
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Martin Vrba – The Race for the Melting Arctic
As the Arctic melts, it becomes a hot-spot for geopolitical competition and resource extraction, which in turns will accelerate it’s ecological destruction. Martin Vrba is a Czech journalist, essayist, and researcher. Based in Prague, he […]
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Esperança Camps Barber – People trapped in a deadly trap: The Valencian Government’s Negligence Has Significantly Worsened the Consequences of the Floods
Disastrous floods have caused chaos in Valencia, and the crisis has been made much worse by the the right-wing Valencian government’s organised negligence. In ‘VilaWeb’. Read the article HERE.
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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 […]
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Richard Heinberg – 7 Steps to What a Real Renewable Energy Transition Looks Like
An ambitious attempt to analyse the constraints on the green transition and how to overcome them. Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of fourteen books, including his […]