Latest Ecology

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  Falk: Bio-Ethical Crisis

  Food and agriculture provide the vital linkages between this search for better forms of coexistence between nature and human experience, what pre-modern society often achieved but lost with the advent of modernity
• Surin: Australia’s Big Smoke

  Informed Australians know it is futile to expect Scott Morrison and the coalition government to take any lead on environmental issues, even those with catastrophic outcomes
• Treat: What happened to the Energy Transition?

  Unions and climate activists need to organise and mobilise for public and social ownership of energy, with real democratic accountability
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  Glick: Roadshowing to Replace Rubber-stamping FERC

  We actively solicited ideas from people we met with about how a new FREC should be structured so that it is the kind of energy and electricity federal agency needed. We received over 80 specific ideas over the course of the trips
• Corbett: Most Damaging of All Trump-Era Policies

  "Let's call this what it is: an excuse to abandon clean air, clean water, and chemical safety rules."
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  Cole: “Catastrophic” Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia

  While Australia’s population of about 25 million is small and therefore its proportional contribution to global heating is also small, the country is especially vulnerable to the effects of burning fossil fuels
• Vallianatos: Growing Ecological Civilization in China

  I urged China to take the initiative in sponsoring a World Environment Organization for collective international activities for the transition of the world economy away from fossil fuels
• Shenker: My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon

  I was on an operation with the Guardians of the Amazon, indigenous people from the Guajajara tribe with one clear objective: to protect their land
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  Fitz: Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

  Are GND proponents willing to consider the possibility that life would be better for all species, including humans, if corporations and governments are not allowed to increase energy production? If so, we might even save a few aquatic ecosystems
• Singh: Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050

  A new report has warned 300 million people are at risk from rising sea levels, with the most vulnerable populations concentrated in the Global South
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  Cole: The Carbon Dioxide Horror Show

  Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study
• Lerner: How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

  Audio from a meeting of recycling leaders obtained reveals how the soda giant’s “green” philanthropy helped squelch what could have been an important tool in fighting the plastic crisis
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  Monbiot: Our Once and Future World

  Let’s bring back Britain’s missing rainforests, and create national parks worthy of the name
• Todhunter: Pesticides in the Dock

  Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
• Tumber: Land Without Bread

  A Green New Deal frames guidance on state and local policy, farmland protection must be central—foundational—to its goals and funding priorities
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  Owliaei: Activists Follow the Money Fueling Amazon Fires

  Protesters around the world are singling out the bad actors profiting off deforestation
• Phillips: Protesters besiege Brazilian embassies worldwide over Amazon fires

  Activists condemn president Jair Bolsonaro’s failure to defend the forest as his supporters condemn ‘global left’
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  Cohn: Amazon Fires Will Have Global Consequences. The UN Must Act

  The Amazon is burning. Nearly 75,000 fires have started in the iconic...
• Miranda: Fires Are Devouring the Amazon

  The ongoing destruction of the Amazon is taking place because of policy choices made by those who now rule Brazil
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  Wainwright: Labour can help the Harland and Wolff workers make renewables

  In the 1970s, Lucas Aerospace workers had a plan to make socially useful products and went to minister for industry Tony Benn for help. Do the workers occupying their shipyard in Belfast have a similar ally in John McDonnell?
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  Fang: GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon

  One-fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in the past 50 years; further industrialization of the rainforest risks destroying another fifth, a loss that would be catastrophic for the global ecosystem
• Miller: How Bolsonaro Emboldened Brazilian Agribusiness

  The United Nations is calling for the protection of the Amazon amid fears that thousands of fires raging across Brazil and some parts of Bolivia are rapidly destroying the world’s largest rainforest and paving the way for a climate catastrophe
• Timmons: How to have an all-renewable electric grid

  Research from me and others shows that fully renewable electric grids are feasible with current technology at current prices; barriers to using renewable electricity are more political and cultural than technological or economic
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  Monbiot: Ash to Ashes

  Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues
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  Cole: Offshore Wind a “New Industrial Revolution”

  The costs of wind, both onshore and offshore, are falling rapidly