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28/05/21
Author: 
David Shukman Science editor
Boats on dry beach - REUTERS

May 27, 2021

It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years.

A major study says by 2025 there's a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level.

That's the lower of two temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.

27/05/21
Author: 
Aaron Saad
Photo: Abandoned oil drilling platform near the coast of Namibia. (fiverlocker / Flickr
23/05/21
Author: 
MICHAEL T. KLARE

Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish.

19/05/21
Author: 
United Electrical Workers Of America
Just to spell it out, which the article seems reluctant to do, this is the United Electrical Workers or, more fully, the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, a very left-leaning union since its founding in the '30s.
          - Gene McGuckin
 
19/05/21
Author: 
CADTM International, Collective, World March of Women , TNI , Womin
End the system of private patents!
End the system of private patents!

For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control

and a free, universal and public vaccination system.

18 May

by CADTM International, Collective, World March of Women , TNI , Womin

 

Thanks to a huge scientific effort based on international collaboration and historic amounts of public money, humanity has been able to develop several effective vaccines against Covid-19 in less than a year.

 

Category: 
18/05/21
Author: 
Emma Graney

MAY 18, 2021

Investment in any new oil and gas developments must stop immediately, electricity should be 90 per cent renewable by 2050 and governments must “close the gap between rhetoric and action” if the world is to meet its goal of net-zero emissions and limit the worst impacts of climate change, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.

18/05/21
Author: 
Primary Author Jessica Omukuti
Drought in Africa - FMSC/Flickr

May 16, 2021

17/05/21
Author: 
Staff, A Growing Culture, originally published by A Growing Culture
Traditional market - https://www.freeimages.com/photo/traditional-market-activities-1526085

May 12, 2021

Later this year, the United Nations is set to hold a historic Food Systems Summit, recognizing the need for urgent action to disrupt business-as-usual practices in the food system. But far from serving as a meaningful avenue for much-needed change, the summit is shaping up to facilitate increased corporate capture of the food system. So much so, that peasant and indigenous-led organizations and civil society groups are organizing an independent counter-summit in order to have their voices heard.

15/05/21
Author: 
Tom Athanasiou
World Map

A slow beginning to this article, but it contains a lot of information about what needs to be done (and is NOT being done or even planned) to save at least some of our billions from the impacts of climate disruption. Given how thorough the author is, what is discouraging--and more than a little strange--is that the word "capitalism" is never mentioned. As someone once said, if you don't know where you have to go, no road will take you there.

     - Gene McGuckin

 

May 12, 2021

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