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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 Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been replaced by neo-colonial governments and international institutions serving their interests.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.
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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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Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!
We have to recognize that there is a pathway forward for humanity, but that the capitalist world system, and today’s governments that are largely subservient to corporations and the wealthy, are blocking that pathway, simply because it requires revolutionary-scale socioecological change.
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Greenland threatens
It rained for 9 hours at Summit Station/Greenland, 10,530’ elevation.
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Climate catastrophe vs. super profits: the real worries of the ruling class
The devastating effects of global warming are being felt by billions of people all around the world. Meanwhile, capitalist fat cats are openly downplaying the risk of entire cities being buried beneath the rising oceans as a trifling inconvenience. Like Emperor Nero before them, the rulers of this destructive system are fiddling–this time–as Rome drowns.
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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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India to boost Sakhalin-1 oil output
After Sakhalin-2, Moscow also plans to nationalise Sakhalin-1 oil and gas development project by ousting U.S. and Japanese shareholders. But Moscow will make an exception for India so that OVL which holds 20% stake will remain & continue to work.
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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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The Supreme Court and radical environmental deregulation
In the face of today’s complex, technological world, conservative state attorneys general and right-wing jurists are demanding a degree of legislative specificity that is impossible for non-experts to articulate.
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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.