Capitalism

11/08/23
Author: 
Colin Todhunter, Dissident Voice.
photo: Graphic from the International Panel of Expert on Sustainable Food System (IPES-Food).

Aug. 8, 2023

The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation.

It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities and the eradication of biodiversity.

09/08/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Bob Rae - Illustration by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Aug. 9, 2023

Weeks after a Canadian company was publicly accused of ignoring concerns about its oil and gas drilling near a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the company’s most senior leadership turned to Global Affairs Canada for help.

02/08/23
Author: 
Ann Garrison
Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Jul 31, 2023

Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines - Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Following is an interview conducted by Ann Garrison with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, about the virtual slave labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt mines.

02/08/23
Author: 
Joel Stronberg, originally published by Civil Notion
photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash
July 31, 2023

As if we needed more reminders of the impacts of Earth’s warming, it’s being reported:

that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets.”

02/08/23
Author: 
Markham Hislop
Petroleum can be used for super strong and light carbon fibre, a material key to technologies we’ll need in a low-emissions economy. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jul. 31, 2023

A Better Use for Alberta’s Oil and Gas - Look to the future. Commit the province’s petroleum to making materials for a post-combustion economy?

[Tyee Editor’s note: This piece is drawn from a recently published version on Markham Hislop’s site Energi Media.]

23/07/23
Author: 
Dharna Noor
Amid record-shattering warmth this February, BP scaled back an earlier goal of lowering its emissions. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images

Jul 16, 2023

Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions

It was probably the Earth’s hottest week in history earlier this month, following the warmest June on record, and top scientists agree that the planet will get even hotter unless we phase out fossil fuels.

20/07/23
Author: 
David GellesPhotographs by Erin Schaff Reporting from Puerto Rico.
Missy Sims, a lawyer with Milberg, one of the biggest class-action firms in the world, at a cemetery in Lares, P.R.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

July 19, 2023

A lawyer started small with a creative tactic. It grew into an effort that could force fossil fuel companies to pay hundreds of billions in damages.

Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some coffins and sent others careering into a nearby stream.

Six years later, the burial place in Lares, where more than 1,700 graves were damaged, is still shattered.

19/07/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Artwork by Ata Ojani / Canada's National Observer

Jul 19, 2023

For decades, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has represented Big Oil’s interests, wielding a multimillion-dollar budget to set up astroturf campaigns to defend fossil fuels, deploy scores of lobbyists to shape government policy and attack critics. But in recent years, the oilsands majors appear to have become apprehensive about the industry lobby group and are going their own way.

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