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It’s a Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis

17Sep

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It’s a Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis

BY ERIN MCCARLEY Image by Markus Spiske. One-third of Pakistan is underwater. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires and floods are ravaging the planet, forcing the displacement of tens of millions of people. And this is just the beginning. It’s time to tell the truth. We can’t afford to wait any longer. We can’t afford to pretend that the same political-economic system that has caused the most historic levels of ecological destruction in human history is the same system that is going to fix it. Here, in the United States— the country on Earth most responsible for the highest levels of carbon emissions in Earth’s atmosphere— we have a ver...

US Grain Lobby against Poorest Countries

13Sep

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Environment, USA

US Grain Lobby against Poorest Countries

US Grain Lobby against Poorest Countries. Cereal Exported from Ukraine didn’t Reach People who Need it. UN Commissioner Said On the cover image the Jordanian UN commissioner Nada Al- Nashif Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio The diplomatic language is neither similar to that of the street nor to that of the courtrooms where every concept must be specified. The diplomatic language, at times, in order not to launch heavy accusations, highlights the necessary solution instead of pointing the finger at the serious and flashy problem. This is the case of the UN official who instead of openly saying that Ukraine is bringing grain supplies to the European Union instead of poor African countries that had seen grain prices increase tenfold, she prefers to use...

Brazil, Amazon, World: Ballots and Bullets

11Sep

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Brazil, Environment

Brazil, Amazon, World: Ballots and Bullets

BY JEAN WYLLYS – JULIE WARK Photo by Nathalia Segato Less than a month before the general election on 2 October, it seems that things aren’t going well for incumbent president Jair Messías Bolsonaro. To begin with, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is retaining a strong lead (44% versus 33% on 31 August). And cards that have been waiting up sleeves are now being played. Yet with close inspection, they reveal more about old systemic problems of Brazilian politics and also global issues than about the present chances of the man who bragged, “Anything can happen”. On 1 September the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) convicted Bolsonaro of crimes against humanity for COVID-19 (anti-)policies that led to the deaths of at least 100,000 people (in fact, ...

The ‘Green Revolution’ Has Failed in Africa and It’s Time for a New Direction

4Sep

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Africa, Environment

The ‘Green Revolution’ Has Failed in Africa and It’s Time for a New Direction

A Malawian woman tends to her maize field on February 14, 2018. (Photo: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images). AGRF, its donors, and African governments should be taking bold action to support resilient agriculture that works with nature, builds crop and diet diversity, respects climatic patterns, and empowers marginalized farmers. ANNE MAINASeptember 3, 2022 by Daily Nation In the next few days, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa will hold its 12th Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, promising to take "bold actions for resilient food systems." They had better because they have taken Africa in the wrong direction. More tragically, the Green Revolution model has made local agriculture dependent on imports, diverting the hard-to-find dollar that would have addr...

3Sep

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Environment, USA

How Bad Can It Get?

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Matt Palmer. How bad can it (climate change) get? The sky’s the limit! No pun intended. Still, the general public is tired of negative articles about climate change. It turns them off. Climate change is impossible to deal with. It’s too much; it’s too negative! As a result, baffling emails come with loud and clear messages, some subtle but some not so subtle. Yet, these same people want access to scientific facts and data that describes just how challenging things really are. They even admit to that while complaining about too much doom and gloom. Nobody is satisfied. All of which serves as an ideal segue for introduction to a new book about how bad things really truly are: Hothouse Earth (Icon Books, August 2022) by Bill Mc...

27Aug

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Environment, USA

A River of Shit Runs Through It

BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Gallatin River, near Big Sky. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The latest national “news” that extremely wealthy people are buying up Montana and the West was about as revealing to Montanans as telling us the sky is blue. We know, we live here, and we see it every day. While many laud the benefits of such economic activity, the very real consequences are stacking up – and nowhere is it more obvious than in the destruction of the world-famous Gallatin River that just turned neon green downstream from Big Sky for the fifth year in a row. It was way back in 1970 that Chet Huntley, a Montana native and famous anchor for the national Huntley-Brinkley Report, went all in on the development of a high-end resort on Lone Mountain, located in the headwaters o...

21Aug

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This is No Time for Climate Complacency

BY STAN COX Illustration: Priti Gulalti Cox. The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed by the mainstream climate movement, Congress members, and the media as the most important climate bill in U.S. history. That’s a pretty low bar, and it says more about our government’s long record of failure on climate than it does about whether this law can prevent dangerous temperature increases in coming decades. The lion’s share of spending in the IRA is directed toward producing new capacity for generating and distributing energy and for developing new technologies that consume energy. Only a small portion of the package will go to environmental justice, affordable housing and insulation, and the nation’s lands and waters. And it doesn’t mandate a reduction in use of fossil...

9Aug

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Environment, Politics, USA

The Urgency of Nuclear Abolition

BY RAY ACHESON B-29 over Osaka on 1 June 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo) After a year and a half’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is finally scheduled to meet from 1–26 August 2022. Considered by most governments to be the “cornerstone” of the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime, the NPT is facing serious challenges that threaten not only this upcoming Review Conference but the Treaty itself. During the period of postponement, the nuclear-armed states have continued to modernise their nuclear weapon arsenals, some have announced increases in the size of their stockpiles, and others have expanded their delivery systems. The US government has changed, but it still seems intent on prefiguring a ...

The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction

1Aug

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The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction

A firefighter walks near a pool as a neighboring home burns in the Napa wine region in California on Monday, as multiple wind-driven fires continue to whip through the region. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images). We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction. CHRIS HEDGES by Scheerpost The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London's fire brigade experienced its busiest day since World War II. The U.K. saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In China, more than a dozen cities issued the "highest possible heat war...

25Jul

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Environment, USA

We are One Species

BY WES JACKSON – ROBERT JENSEN Homeless camp and salmon mural under Morrison Bridge, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The world is a mess, in both social and ecological terms, mired in unjust and unsustainable systems. Responsibility for this condition is not shared equally. Powerful nations define world politics that has produced dramatic wealth inequality, and rich nations contribute more to global warming and ecosystem collapse. But along with efforts to change those conditions and address the crises today, we should reflect on how we got here. How did one species end up so fractured? First, it should be uncontroversial to assert the antiracist principle, anchored in basic biology, that we are one species. There are observable differences in such things as skin ...