Nov. 20, 2020

Rich countries—accused of hoarding future vaccines—are being urged to support a "humanitarian buffer" to innoculate refugees and people in conflict zones. 

A handful of the world's wealthiest nations on Friday dug in their heels in their fight against waiving intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, putting them even more firmly at odds with global health campaigners struggling to ensure access for people in developing countries, conflict zones, and refugee camps.

[Editor: But the Trudeau government has just put out a  climate plan with a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050!]

November 10, 2020

Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate of the global temperature increase have been too conservative, and stronger and more decisive action is needed to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions.

Nov 19th 2020

12/11/202

The coming weeks could be the period of greatest threat to Venezuela

Trump has not yet accepted electoral defeat, and his remaining days as U.S. presidency until Biden’s inauguration may represent the period of greatest threat of armed intervention in Venezuela, especially before December 6, the date of the country’s next legislative elections.

Nov. 9, 2020

October 29, 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?