Of Cockroaches and Humans By Roberto Savio* Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is… Continue Reading
By Daniel Hentz* – Columbia Journalism Review** “The best minds in media should be giving sustained attention to how to tell [the climate crisis story] in a way that creates change,” wrote Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan in October. The… Continue Reading
By Aline Robert – EURACTIV.fr / Distributed by Human Wrongs Watch Poland is hosting lobbying for coal and fossil fuels of a scale that has rarely been seen during an annual UN conference on climate (COP). The EU is turning… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like to… Continue Reading
By Mikhail Gorbachev To the organizers of the Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear friends, I was pleased and encouraged to learn about your initiative of convening the unprecedented Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth. In the… Continue Reading
BY HAZEL HENDERSON* – Ethical Markets Media In 1986 Scientific American drew attention to this visual of space junk tracked by NORAD, 7,000 spent rocket debris and the 40,000 objects with a diameter of 10 centimeters or more. I used… Continue Reading
By Ban Ki-moon* NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 12 2018 (IPS) – One of my proudest accomplishments as the former UN secretary-general was playing a part in the ambitious global agenda for sustainable development (SDGs), including the goal of universal health coverage… Continue Reading
Human Wrongs Watch* From Tuesday [11 December 2018] on, close to 100 Government ministers are due be involved in negotiating a final deal on moving forward with climate action here at the United Nations COP24 conference in Poland. So, what is the goal?… Continue Reading
Federica Marsi – The National The first UN global agreement setting up a common framework on the management of international migration flows was formally adopted on Monday as a two-day intergovernmental conference began in Marrakech. Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs… Continue Reading
William Mebane* The first generic goods were those based on a single model for everyone. The black model T Ford is the classic example. One model mass-produced permitted an enormous economy of scale and reduction of costs never before… Continue Reading
Q&A, Anna Triandafyllidou* Sputnik European Union member states should pay into the EU budget or toward development projects in Africa if they refuse to take in refugees. This is according to a document submitted by France and Germany to EU… Continue Reading
BY FERNANDO AYALA* – Wall Street International Magazine The call of Madrid: Zero Hunger by 2030 and the Alarm against the Epidemic of Obesity On October 29 and 30, 2018, the first World Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition was… Continue Reading
By Laura Gil – Africa Renewal (through IPS) VIENNA, Dec 7 2018 (IPS) – Years back, nuclear energy was a fancy option limited to the industrialized world. In due course, nuclear could be an energy source for much of Africa,… Continue Reading
James Pennington and Ariel Kastner – World Economic Forum (WEF) As world leaders gather in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), signs are evident that several long-time… Continue Reading
By Phillip Orchard* – Geopolitical Futures Long-term economic competition is at the mercy of even longer-term geopolitical competition Last Saturday in Buenos Aires, over grilled steak and Malbec one assumes were produced domestically, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President… Continue Reading
By Rachel Kyte* UNITED NATIONS, Dec 6 2018 (IPS) – The cost of renewable energy is low, and at times, less than fossil fuels. What are the barriers to switching to renewables? Where current energy systems exist, they will need… Continue Reading
By Gary G. Kohls, MD – Duty to Warn* (With attention to what has become known as “The Business Plot”, the “Plot Against FDR” or the “White House/Wall Street Putsch”) December 4, 2018 – I was involved in pro-peace, anti-war, anti-US… Continue Reading
By Hans Nicholas Jong – Mongabay* Activists have questioned the integrity and effectiveness of the U.N. climate talks in Poland, in light of its close associations with the coal industry. Among the events sponsors are three Polish coal companies, and… Continue Reading
Editorial The French president needs to find a way to tackle both climate change and the anger on the streets Almost two decades ago a new fresh-faced leader of the centre-left emerged in Europe and appeared, having won a historic… Continue Reading
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization Ecological economic growth is something new under the sun. It’s key to stopping and reversing climate change and building an ecological civilization based on the pursuit of social and ecological justice. We have the tools… Continue Reading
