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“Everything we’ve been hearing here and at the previous 25 summits is basically distraction,” says Monbiot, adding that global leaders could “fix” the worst impacts of the climate crisis “in no time at all if they wanted to.”
We all think that climate change is somebody else’s problem. We have to be persuaded otherwise
“This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it’s an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for the best.”
The proposed lease sale, said over 250 groups in a joint letter, “shockingly offers more area than the Trump administration initially proposed.”
Interview on climate change and the young activists working hard to fight it
The editorial certainly reflected “longstanding values” — since the Times has recycled them for decades in its relentless attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party
A wealth elite engineers our environment to perpetuate itself and sustain the power structures on which it depends
The supporters of the price rise (read Hindutva brigade) argue that increased revenues that come from the indigent pocket are necessary for a benign state and the government to finance ‘so many’ welfare schemes
In an effort to cut off the financial lifelines of six of the most prominent Palestinian human rights groups, the state of Israel has baselessly designated them as “terrorist” organizations
The quieter focus of the film The Drummer is the lasting physical and psychological impact of military service, under post 9/11 conditions
Restructuring the international economic order to avert cataclysmic climate change demands bottom-up participation
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their ‘defence’ spending
At least since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, conspiracy theories have become an ever increasing problem
‘Our Democracy Faces an Existential Threat’
If you want a choice not to wear a mask, that’s okay, stay home, don’t endanger others
I wrote No Bosses because I believe we need shared vision to sustain hope, orient strategy, and escalate commitment. I recently wondered, what if I were invited to review No Bosses? What would I say?
Marília Mendonça Turned Cowboy Music on Its Head and Won the Heart of Brazil
The situation is genuinely ominous, especially since there has never been a direct confrontation between the U.S. and another nuclear-armed power
“While a few are profiting handsomely, investors recognize the dangers of vaccine apartheid and are seeking to hold these companies accountable.”
From an original bill with $3.5 trillion in social safety net and climate investments in the Reconciliation bill, progressives pared down their proposals to $1.75 trillion
Every pound of carbon dioxide not emitted is a fraction of global heating or climate destabilization that doesn’t happen. Some of the anti-carbon language in this act is unprecedented in federal legislation. Let us celebrate this
I would argue that the U.S. has never been a democracy, and that a key reason is its basically permanent state of war, which began with its founding
