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62% of Americans worried about paying rent in 2023
A June poll reveals American citizens’ anxieties on paying for housing in the coming year.
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There are ‘no real consequences’ for toxic emissions events
In some cases, these “chemical releases” aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.
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Climate crisis poses stark choice: Socialism or Extinction
In his latest book, Socialism or Extinction: The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Disaster, Martin Empson neatly lays out his argument as to why the climate crisis cannot be solved under capitalism.
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Fifty Years After ‘The Limits to Growth’: Dennis Meadows interviewed by Juan Bordera
Dennis Meadows: Climate change, inflation, food shortages are symptoms of a bigger problem.
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How private corporations stole the sea from the Commons
For most of human history, the oceans have been seen as a global commons, the benefits and resources of which belong to us all in equal measure. But our seas–and the marine environment as a whole–are being ravaged by exploitation for corporate profit. The result is a social, economic and ecological crisis that threatens the very life support system of the Earth.
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Power: A re-envisaged state and energy justice
Our contemporary era of perpetual crises demands, we contend, a critical reappraisal of the state’s potential role, to supplant the predominant market-led responses to crisis, to advance a more equitable society. Historically, all major theories of the state—liberal and radical—have been generated in tumultuous eras.
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America’s biggest reservoirs hit by dead pool jitters
Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead is dangerously close to dead pool status for the first time since construction in the mid 1930s. A vicious hammering drought sequence for over two decades throughout the West threatens to bring America’s biggest water reservoir to its knees.
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It’s a necessity: Necessity defense in abortion access contexts
In recent years, climate activists charged with crimes for trying to avert our impending global death via climate change have increasingly turned to the “necessity defense” in court to defend against their charges.
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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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Canada could learn from Cuba’s sustainable agriculture
Cuba has more than 380,000 urban farms producing 1.5 million tons of vegetables each year.
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Nationalise energy firms, unions demand as BP reports £6.9bn profits and energy bills soar
Fossil fuel firm’s profits are ‘an insult to families struggling to get by,’ TUC says.
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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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China’s farmers embrace rooftop solar power
China has vowed to accelerate the installation of clean energy. Rooftop solar installations have emerged as a major force to achieve that. Nearly 53 gigawatts of solar capacity were added in 2021, with more than half coming from rooftop installations.
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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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Africa taken for ‘neo-colonial’ ride
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been replaced by neo-colonial governments and international institutions serving their interests.
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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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Economics for the Anthropocene
Ubiquitous, and worsening, environmental instability means we will have to throw out the anthropocentrism of economics.
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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.