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Inside the Democrats’ climate deal with the devil
The new climate package furthers the U.S.’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.
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Reaching a balance with wild species
The global biodiversity crisis is one of the great threats to planetary health.
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To save the Planet, we must choose
When Exxon’s CEO is celebrating, you know there’s a problem. But there’s also a solution.
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Biden’s staff sounds climate alarm — about Biden
A letter obtained by The Lever shows the call for climate action is now coming from inside the administration.
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European states commit to climate inaction as heat wave begins to recede
The heat wave devastating southern and western Europe gradually began to recede yesterday, as violent storms brought cooler weather across parts of France and Britain. The heat wave continued in southern Europe, with temperatures close to 40°C across much of southern Spain and Italy, and wildfires are still burning across the region.
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“Neither liberal nor social democratic policies have a structured approach to understanding imperialism, including its ecological history”
Alejandro Pedregal – in conversation with Max Ajl
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$2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet.
The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe.
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Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities
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).
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Greenland threatens
It rained for 9 hours at Summit Station/Greenland, 10,530’ elevation.
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Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism
The population of the world is enduring crises from climate change that, until recently, climatologists thought may only happen decades from now.
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The capitalist solution to ‘save’ the planet: make it an asset class & sell it
John Bellamy Foster explains the capitalist ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars worth of assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons to make a profit. Worse still: it is already happening.
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Don’t look to EPA to save us!
The 51-year-old agency has been losing both power and credibility over recent decades, and SCOTUS’s recent ruling undermines it even more.
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The Global South has the power to force radical climate action
After all, Western economies–and their economic growth–depend utterly on labour and resources from the South.
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Supreme Court condemns planet and human life
In a 6‒3 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled on June 30 against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a move that signals a major setback in the fight against climate change.
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The heart of the matter
The Supreme Court’s undermining of the EPA’s ability to fight climate change brings the terms and stakes of the current crisis into blinding focus.
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At Bonn climate talks, rich nations stab poor countries in the back — again
The rulers of rich nations are like arsonists who, after lighting the fire, prevent anyone calling the fire brigade. An example of this took place at the Bonn Climate talks that finished on June 16.
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Who is to blame for 30 years of climate change inertia?
Two new books trace the history of global inaction over the climate emergency, and seek to identify the culprits.
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Biden is preparing to crush a historic climate change lawsuit
A vital effort to establish a legal right to a living planet could soon move forward—but the Biden administration is trying to stop it.
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Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples
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.
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India and Pakistan’s brutal heat wave poised to resurge
2022 will likely be one of the coolest years Earth will experience in the foreseeable future; much more intense heat waves are in India and Pakistan’s future.