By Roberto Savio* Rome, March 2019 – If we ever needed a proof, to see how the political system has become self referent, and unable to update itself, the last student march, in more than 1.000 towns, is a very good example. Of course, politicians referred to it in declarations…
Editorial – The Observer Children are right to call politicians to account over a global crisis The Observer view on the school climate strikes: For those who care passionately about our planet’s future, these are dispiriting times. Fossil fuel emissions, which are now causing…
Brianna Fruean and others –The Guardian As young people walk out of classrooms for a global climate strike, a panel of campaigners share their reasons for action I am from the Central Taiwan Plains Indigenous People. As the indigenous people of Taiwan, we have a particular…
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization Our current path is that of a netocracy and triumph of the billionaires. Jeff Bezos and his billionaire cohort will successfully follow their plans for customer service, fast delivery, cost cutting, labor saving and eventually own almost…
Kaufman* – HuffPost The oil, gas and coal industries’ donations heavily favor the lawmakers who have so far refused to back the only climate policy to match the scale of the crisis. The 12 senators co-sponsoring the Green New Deal resolution that Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 2019 (IPS) – When the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, met last month to discuss the growing new threats to world peace and security, the discussion veered away from international terrorism, nuclear Armageddon…
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza* Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board… only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck. This is the advice we should convey today through…
By Simon Lewis, Alexander Koch, Mark Maslin and Chris Brierley – The Conversation While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60m people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas…
Becker*- Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) Deep in the inner sanctums of the federal bureaucracy, Donald Trump’s lieutenants are writing the early drafts of the President’s State of the Union address, coming up on Jan. 29. It’s possible that the annual speech will be…
Phillip Inman – The Guardian / The Observer Jim Yong Kim has announced he is stepping down as the head of the World Bank, in a move that sent shockwaves through the international aid community. He will leave by 1 February, three and a half years before the expiry of his term in…
