Climate Crisis

By Omair Ahmad | – (The Third Pole) – With glacier retreat, permafrost melt, and extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD’s HIMAP report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price Water in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is going through large and […]

Climate Crisis

Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice: We need true democracy to Avoid self-extinction.

David Korten

( Yes! Magazine) – Economic power is—and always has been—the foundation of political power. Those who control the peoples’ means of living rule. In a democracy, however, each person must have a voice in the control and management of the means of their living. That requires more than a vote expressing a preference for which […]

Climate Crisis

Democracy and the Green New Deal Demand higher Taxes on Rich

Sam Pizzigati

Tie the U.S. corporate tax rate to the ratio between CEO and worker pay

Climate Crisis

School Climate Strikes: Children taking Radical Action and “Adults” have no Right to Object

The Conversation

Our inaction that has led the world they will inherit to this pretty pass

Climate Crisis

The Age of Environmental Breakdown: We need the Green New Deal Now!

Juan Cole

The emergency is the “extent, severity, pace and closing window of opportunity to avoid potentially catastrophic outcomes”

Climate Crisis

2/3s of Himalayan Glaciers to Melt by 2100, Threatening Water for 2 Billion People

AFP

The Himalayan glaciers, which formed some 70 million years ago, are highly sensitive to changing temperatures.

Climate Change

Climate Emergency: Oceans Hotter than in Recorded History and Getting Hotter

AFP

Tampa, United States | AFP | – The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports […]

Acidification of Oceans

Wall or Watchtower? The real Threat is invasive Climate Crisis, and our Shield is Science

Juan Cole

The man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor …who likewise ordered the burning of all the books before him

Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”

H. Patricia Hynes

The conference goals are “nowhere near ambitious enough to tackle” the climate emergency “at the scale we need to.”