[Webpage editor's note: One red-green position that challenges other red-greens on various questions, e.g., significance of Paris/COP, role for market mechanisms (carbon taxes), red? content of "transitional" demands, 'Blockadia'...]

Those of us who inhabit planet Earth in the 21st century face a huge problem. Our own species, homo sapiens (modern humans), are trashing the planet at an ever increasing and more destructive rate.

October 30th 2020

[Editor: This really is a very good piece on climate change and what to do about it!]

May 31, 2016

Oct. 27, 2020

Exclusive: expedition discovers new source of greenhouse gas off East Siberian coast has been triggered

Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” – have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast, the Guardian can reveal.

October 29th 2020

[This article might bring some comfort if it put a timeline on WHEN such risks could be quantified and then outlined how exactly that process would lead to creating a socially just and environmentally sane transition. Will knowing the investment risks make capitalists decide to do this? Will it create effective regulatory enforcement to compel capitalists to do this? Will it do anything at all that will begin the required transition SOON ENOUGH?