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  •  | 1 Introduction   Introduction to Climate Science | MR Online

    Disappearing climate science

    Originally published: The Lancet on Volume 9, Issue 2E79 February, 2025 by The Lancet Planetary Health (more by The Lancet) (Posted Feb 21, 2025)

    It was clear during the U.S. presidential election campaign that if re-elected Donald Trump would be no friend to the environment. The assault on climate science and action began immediately.

  •  | TableRecognition consideration and evaluation of environmental sustainability in existing NSOAPs | MR Online

    Environmentally sustainable surgical health systems: an analysis of policies, tools, and guidelines

    Originally published: The Lancet on July 2023 by Anisa Nazir, Xiya Ma and Dominique Vervoort (more by The Lancet) (Posted Aug 08, 2023)

    Sustainable health practices and policies must be designed to mitigate the effects of climate change and optimize resource preservation.

  •  | yerelcewordpresscom | MR Online

    A planetary health perspective on menstruation: menstrual equity and climate action

    Originally published: The Lancet on May 2023 by Parnian Khorsand, Sara Dada, Laura Jung, Siufung Law, Poorvaprabha Patil, Marie-Claire Wangari, Omnia El Omrani, Kim van Daalen (more by The Lancet) (Posted May 10, 2023)

    Historically, blood-shedding has often been associated with heroic acts of valour. However, menstruation is not praised and cherished in the same way. Rather, menstruation is shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and stress, despite being a natural physiological process that occurs in a quarter of the global population.

  •  | Oak Creek Canyon | MR Online

    Reaching a balance with wild species

    Originally published: The Lancet on August 1, 2022 - VOLUME 6, ISSUE 8, E640, by Elsevier Ltd (more by The Lancet) (Posted Aug 06, 2022)

    The global biodiversity crisis is one of the great threats to planetary health.

  •  | As Myanmar experiences more extreme weather events a roadmap that lays the context analysis and options on how to tackle climate change is highly essential 2016 | MR Online

    Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities

    Originally published: The Lancet on July 20, 2022 by Aljosa Slamersak (more by The Lancet)

    The core countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the rest of Europe (collectively referred to here as the Global North) use on average about 130 gigajoules of energy per capita each year, nearly ten times more than what low-income countries use (13·4 GJ/capita).

  •  | Climate march in London | MR Online

    Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples

    Originally published: The Lancet on May 2022 by Jessica Hernandez, Julianne Meisner, Kevin Bardosh and Peter Rabinowitz (more by The Lancet) (Posted May 14, 2022)

    Land is and means different things to different people. Indigenous, pastoralist, and rural farming communities are especially dependent on land, which is widely recognised by conservation organisations. Such communities are often uniquely vulnerable to the effects of ecosystem destruction while simultaneously having strong social norms and cultural values that support ecosystem preservation.

  •  | Biotic resource use comprises biomass and abiotic resource use comprises metals non metallic minerals and fossil fuels | MR Online

    National responsibility for ecological breakdown: a fair-shares assessment of resource use, 1970–2017

    Originally published: The Lancet on April 1, 2022 by Prof Jason Hickel, PhD along with Daniel W O’Neill, PhD and Andrew L Fanning, PhD and Huzaifa Zoomkawala, BS (more by The Lancet) (Posted Apr 08, 2022)

    We propose a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for ecological breakdown by assessing nations’ cumulative material use in excess of equitable and sustainable boundaries.

  •  | The critical role of women in avoiding a Covid 19 food pandemic in sub Saharan Africa | CGIAR | MR Online

    Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls

    Originally published: The Lancet on December 2021 by Jessica Omukuti PhD, Matt Barlow PhD, Maria Eugenia Giraudo Tallulah Lines, MRes Prof Jean Grugel PhD (more by The Lancet) (Posted Dec 11, 2021)

    Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities.

  •  | 3D Deadly Prescription Ver2 | MR Online

    A call to look beyond prescription opioid supply-side restrictions and include health equity when predicting opioid policy effectiveness

    Originally published: The Lancet on September 10, 2021 by Amie Goodin and Juan M. Hincapie-Castillo (more by The Lancet) (Posted Oct 12, 2021)

    We read with interest the study by Rao and colleagues on opioid policy effectiveness, which extends their previous modeling efforts to predict opioid-related overdose, life-years, and QALYs. This work presents a useful framework from which to investigate policy effectiveness.

  •  | Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases Karl Marx | MR Online

    Offline: Medicine and Marx

    Originally published: The Lancet on November 4, 2017 by Richard Horton (more by The Lancet) (Posted Nov 09, 2017)

    When President Xi Jinping addressed the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China last month, he spoke of “the scientific truth of Marxism-Leninism”. Marxism (with Chinese characteristics), as President Xi went on to set out, is to be the foundation for a Healthy China.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
    Iker Suarez  | A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal 2021 | MR Online

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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