Sanity Please!
By Vicki Robin* – Other News After waging war comes building peace, right? Not in US politics. Not now. Now we have palace intrigue worthy of the Saud family. What we need is political sanity, a team of allies, not… Continue Reading
Environment
LIVES IN ECOLOGY
By John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which reviews the lives and thoughts of some of the women and men who have addressed the crucial problems of ecology… Continue Reading
The Earth Needs You!
William Mebane* – The Wall Street International Magazine A sustainable development scenario must take place Since the Paris Agreement bank loans for investments by the oil, gas, and coal companies have been steadily increasing; from $612 billion in 2016, $646… Continue Reading
There’s Only One Antidote for Climate Despair—Climate Revolt
By Ben Ehrenreich* – The Nation What Extinction Rebellion, the grassroots civil disobedience movement, teaches us about transforming hopelessness into action The day I arrived in London a few weeks back, temperatures cracked 100 degrees at Heathrow airport. It was… Continue Reading
Climate Change and the Axes of Power
Por Fernando Ayala and René Castro* COP 25 is an opportunity to relaunch multilateralism and save the planet All countries and their inhabitants are responsible for the future of the Earth, especially the new generations that will inherit a world… Continue Reading
Brazil’s President Is Too Afraid to Stop the Amazon Fires. But the World Can’t Wait
Giselle Carino and Debora Diniz* – Newsweek For weeks, the world has watched with horror as the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has burned. Besides being home to indigenous Brazilian people, the Amazon rainforest plays a huge role in… Continue Reading
The Amazon and the hell of power
By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A… Continue Reading
We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too
By Raoni Metuktire * – The Guardian You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of… Continue Reading
The Amazon’s fires could burn Jair Bolsonaro
The Economist The outside world is right to worry, but must show finesse in its dealings with Brazil PICTURES OF FIRES raging in the rainforest. A social-media storm in which #AmazonIsBurning dominated what passes for the global conversation. A war… Continue Reading
The Trump Ally Who Is Allowing the Amazon to Burn
By Carol Pires – The New Yorker As fires have surged in the Amazon, the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s disdain for environmental-protection measures has drawn international attention. In January, 2012, Jair Bolsonaro, who was then a retired military officer and… Continue Reading
The Guardian view on the threat of Bolsonaro: tropical disaster is man-made
Editorial Brazil’s far-right populist president has encouraged the wanton destruction of the world’s greatest forest. He has been humbled but not stopped As Donald Trump’s America retreats from global leadership, coalitions of like-minded nations are attempting to limit the damage.… Continue Reading
Are Jair Messias Bolsonaro and Donald John Trump a Menace to the Planet?
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 2019 (IPS) – We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues. Worlds which are overshadowed by other, much bigger ones. Global spheres of international finance, politics, climate change,… Continue Reading
The new social movement on climate change
By Amy Harder* – Axios Over the last nine months, calls to address climate change have become a powerful new social movement. Driving the news: Climate change has traditionally not spawned intense, organized and continued protest. That’s been gradually changing, and since November with… Continue Reading
Eco-Apartheid Is Real
By Daniel Aldana Cohen* – The Nation The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing. The heat is on. A heat wave is breaking records across much… Continue Reading
Trump Called Climate Change a Hoax. Now He’s Awkwardly Boasting About Fighting It
By Justin Worland* – TIME President Donald Trump has falsely called climate change a “hoax” invented by China, incorrectly suggested that wind turbines cause cancer and dismissed a landmark scientific report produced by the federal government’s own scientists. His Administration has… Continue Reading
We Can Get the 2030 Agenda Back on Track – With More Empowered, Inclusive, & Equal Partnerships
By Ulrika Modeer and Susanna Moorehead (*) UNITED NATIONS, Jul 5 2019 (IPS) – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, universally adopted in 2015, is a plan to create a better and more sustainable future for all in just 15… Continue Reading
A bad trip’: Jair Bolsonaro’s first six months leave even the right dismayed
Tom Phillips* – The Guardian Protests, scandals, corruption claims, allegations of mafia links … ‘It’s the worst start to a presidency’ in decades, says pollster Brazil was just weeks from last year’s electoral earthquake when rock legend Lobão sat down… Continue Reading
The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton
By Michelle Goldberg* – The New York Times A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our… Continue Reading
G20 summit: bad as he is, Trump is not the only problem
Editorial – The Guardian The climate crisis underlines the need for effective global economic leadership. The US president makes this harder, but so do China and several others Ever since the G20 of leading global economies was founded, its summits… Continue Reading
The Implacable Desertification of Planet Earth
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch Yet another under-reported human-made disaster: the relentless desertification of Planet Earth that may make uninhabitable some regions like the Middle East, endanger food security, aggravate climate crisis, and force more and more millions… Continue Reading