Climate Change

13/06/23
Author: 
John Feffer
Posco prospects a lithium salt lake in Argentina. (courtesy of Posco Holdings)
 
Entrepreneurs and adventurers have long traveled the world in search of gold. European empires looted Latin America for its silver and tin. Diamonds attracted the rapacious to Africa. Oil has built enormous empires of wealth in the Gulf states.

 

 

13/06/23
Author: 
John Feffer
Teaser photo credit: UK child’s ration book in WW2. Public Domain.

An interesting description of an international, post-capitalist energy distribution system--which fails to address how capitalism might be eliminated. 

                       -- Gene McGuckin

May 23, 2023

10/06/23
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Market in Mushin, Lagos. A large number of people in Nigeria will be pushed outside the human climate niche, say experts. Photo by Kaizenify / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

June 9, 2023

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

10/06/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
When a plant root pushes into soil, it triggers an explosion of activity in billions of bacteria. Photograph: Liz McBurney/The Guardian
May 7, 2022

Don’t dismiss soil: its unknowable wonders could ensure the survival of our species

Beneath our feet is an ecosystem so astonishing that it tests the limits of our imagination. It’s as diverse as a rainforest or a coral reef. We depend on it for 99% of our food, yet we scarcely know it. Soil.

10/06/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
Illustration: Nate Kitch

May 26, 2023

The solution is not more fields but better, more compact, cruelty-free and pollution-free factories

No issue is more important, and none so shrouded in myth and wishful thinking. The way we feed ourselves is the key determinant of whether we survive this century, as no other sector is as damaging . Yet we can scarcely begin to discuss it objectively, thanks to the power of comforting illusions.

08/06/23
Author: 
 Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
Public Power Now

  June 8, 2023 

TUED interviewed two Coalition organizers, Michaelangelo Pomarico and Patrick Robbins. View the 40-minute interview here and read the full interview transcript below. [website editor: this is a rough, incomplete and edited transcript!]

07/06/23
Author: 
David Wallace-Wells
Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock

June 7, 2023

There’s nowhere to escape the smoke from wildfires

My father, who died of lung cancer, used to say that as soon as someone inhaled their first cigarette they immediately knew, if they weren’t in denial, that they were harming themselves.

06/06/23
Author: 
 Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
Build Public Renewables - New York

June 6, 2023 

On May 2, New York became the first US state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies. The Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA), now New York State law, empowers and directs the state’s public power provider – the New York Power Authority (NYPA) – to plan, build, and operate renewable energy projects across New York State. Organizers are now focusing on growing the movement for Public Power from coast to coast.

06/06/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said last year that no more public money would go toward the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Photo by Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

June 2, 2023

The federal government is once again putting taxpayer dollars on the line to prop up the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX).

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