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Politicians discussing climate change
Isaac Cordal is sympathetic toward his little people and you can empathize with their situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and even their more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places.
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Against climate fascism
Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis.
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Corporate power is killing the planet
In the 1950s, a system of corporate courts was created to allow Western businesses to sue the Global South for threatening their profits—and now fossil fuel giants are using it to stop any country from fighting the climate crisis.
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Billionaires go bunkers
The year is 2070. A global catastrophe—climate change, nuclear winter, civil war: pick your poison—recently ended civilisation and opened a new chapter in your life.
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Quarter-Earth reformism
Review of Matt Huber’s ‘Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet’
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Western climate agenda goes against African development
This commentary provides an overview of carbon and biodiversity offsets as an expansion of global capitalism under the western environmental agenda marshalled against development in Africa.
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A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown
Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.
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How Hearst’s ‘weather wonks’ invisibilize climate crisis
Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat—human fossil-fueled industry.
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Climate crisis and nuclear waste in the U.S.
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report.
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Dialectics, science, and naturalism: An Outline
Science is not an innocent activity, performed outside society. Lewontin and Levins write: ‘To do science is to be a social actor, whether one likes it or not, in political activity’ (1985: 4).
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“Letter to the People for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean” launched at Foz do Iguaçu conference
From February 22 to 24, 4,000 people from more than 20 countries gathered in Foz do Iguaçu for the Conference on the Integration of Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
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AMLO’s push for environmental reforms angers Canadian mining sector
Ottawa has often criticized measures that would limit the ability of Canadian companies to profit from Mexico’s resource wealth.
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Nature’s heartbeat, visualized
A stunning animation displays the pulse of the Earth System’s metabolism.
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Reactionary ecology
For many continental philosophers, the first two decades of the new millennium were a time of vibrant matter, hyperobjects, and a weird fixation with intestinal microbes. The late Bruno Latour saw this ‘new materialist’ doctrine–which decentred the human subject in favour of the world of ‘things’, believed to have agency of their own–as a useful resource in his career-long polemic against Marxism.
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The wealthy cause climate change; the poor suffer its consequences
The tiny but incredibly privileged 0.1% really are a breed apart, even from their not-quite-so-rich neighbours.
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Farmers’ protest in India reignites: A struggle for the future of food and agriculture
In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalize’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatization of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.
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NECESSITY: A two-part documentary series on climate resistance
Grounded in people and places at the heart of the climate crisis, ‘Oil, Water and Climate Resistance’ traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America.
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California pistachio billionaires funding Israel’s occupation regime
Based on tax records from Lynda and Stewart Resnicks foundation, they’ve given anywhere from $500,000 to $200,000 to the Israeli military every year, with most of it funneled through an outfit called the American Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Arctic Sea ice loss: A world of trouble
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), over the past three decades the oldest, thickest ice (13-20 feet thick) has declined by a stunning 95 percent and 70 percent of Arctic sea ice is now thin “seasonal ice” that quickly melts in the Arctic summer.
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What’s driving the rise in grocery prices–and what the Government can do about it
Skyrocketing grocery prices in America highlight how precarious our supply chains are, giving corporations ample opportunity to take advantage of consumers in the midst of minor supply shocks and major global crises. Unless we aggressively confront climate change, corporate consolidation, and profiteering, food prices will remain high and continue to climb.