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‘Look up’, Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust
Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin—a contested history, published in September 2021, is a warning. State officials, politicians and agribusinesses risk turning Australia’s premier food bowl—the Murray-Darling Basin, which covers 14 percent of the Australian mainland—into desert.
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Radical Land Reform in Venezuela: A Conversation with Juan Carlos Loyo (Part I)
Chávez’s agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.
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Ecocide or Socialism?
Ecocide–the destruction of the entire ecosystem–is a real prospect. Its possibility has been well known to scientists since the 1980s, if not earlier. Every projection of its pace has under estimated the actual rate of breakdown.
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Geothermal green heating part of China’s decarbonization plans
The city of Xian’s geothermal district heating in Shaanxi Province China serves as an example of the country’s decarbonization plans.
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Climate inaction, injustice worsened by finance fiasco
KUALA LUMPUR: Many factors frustrate the international cooperation needed to address the looming global warming catastrophe. As most rich nations have largely abdicated responsibility, developing countries need to think and act innovatively and cooperatively to better advance the South.
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Kerala scheme shows how to create work opportunities while caring for the environment
Environment and employment two fronts on which India has been besieged in recent years. Unemployment since 2011 has worsened in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdowns. About 100 million workers lost their jobs with women and the youth being more adversely impacted.
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Earth’s Greatest Enemy – A New Film by Abby Martin [OFFICIAL TEASER]
Abby Martin’s second feature film is an anti-imperialist environmental documentary.
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At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight
2022 Doomsday Clock Statement
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Latin America will continue to distance itself from the United States
At a time when Washington and its Western allies are attempting to maintain a resolutely unilateralist approach, the Latin American countries that the United States has too long regarded as its backyard continue to deepen their strategic ties with the main pro-multipolar forces.
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In major move, Global Coalition pushes for moratorium on solar geoengineering
An international “coalition” of scientists and governance scholars launched an initiative on January 17 that calls for a moratorium on the study and development of a controversial climate-change mitigation strategy known as solar geoengineering.
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Who Funds Overseas Coal Plants?
The Need for Transparency and Accountability
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Nepal’s largest hydropower station starts operation
With the completion and operation of the Upper Tamakoshi hydroelectric power station, Nepal has not only resolved a long-standing problem of intermittent power shortages, but also realized the transformation from an electricity importer to an exporter.
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Prosecutors hit anti-pipeline protesters with felony charges to send a message, defense says
One county prosecutor asked oil company Enbridge for reimbursement to help with some of the prosecutions clogging up rural courts.
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Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law.
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Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos
The unexpected may occur, within the quantum perspective assumed by the new cosmology: the current suffering due to the systemic crisis will not be in vain; it is accumulating benign energies that will make a leap to another, higher-order.
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Don’t look up reflects the cynicism of capitalist decay, for better and for worse
A lively debate has ensued over the merits of the film, Don’t Look Up. People on the progressive side of the political spectrum have praised the film for its piercing honesty about the climate crisis which is communicated through the metaphor of an incoming, planet-destroying comet.
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The Production Gap report
Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits.
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Year in review: China’s climate goals withstand heat
Chinese policymakers have been rapidly developing new climate policies even as major events have threatened to derail them.
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Cuba eyes cooperation with China on clean energy
Facing the challenges of an aging energy infrastructure, Cuba is looking to new energy sources with help from the Belt and Road Initiative to strengthen its power production capacity and move away from fossil fuels.
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Warnings from the Far North
“Breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures” is horrific to contemplate.