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 the hottest…
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 in a coma, so it is not only…
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 the regional and global…
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 “Tower Inferno”. A hell of power.
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 the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who have brought so…
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 of words in which Emmanuel…
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 colorful…
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…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 2019 (IPS) – We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues.
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.
