Environment

By Jules Kortenhorst | (Project Syndicate) | – – Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time to stem global warming and save the planet. The clean-energy transformation has already begun – and it will play out faster than most people expect. DENVER – After a season […]

Environment

The Gasoline Car will be History before you Know it

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The world transportation sector is a major source of carbon dioxide emissions, heat trapping gas that warmed up the Caribbean and contributed to the ferocity of the 2017 hurricane season. Puerto Rico, St. Martin and other islands have been wrecked and Houston suffered a major flood. […]

Displaced and Refugees

Trump’s Billionaire Cronies feed at Public Trough as he disses Puerto Rico

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s petulant tweet storm on Saturday accused Puerto Ricans of wanting everything done for them. He expressed these sentiments as his secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, was forced to resign for flying around on expensive government airplanes or charters, costing tax payers over […]

China

EV Game-Changer: China dumping Gasoline Cars even Sooner

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By Zoran Radosavljevic | EURACTIV.com China announced on Thursday (28 September) it would start phasing out fossil fuel cars and set a 10% minimum quota of “new energy vehicles” in 2019, in a move European industry groups called a game changer and a wake-up call for Europe. China, the world’s largest car market, has set […]

Donald Trump

After Hurricane, Trump Reminds Puerto Rico of ‘Massive Debt’

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TeleSur | – – “Maria has left behind her a trail of devastation and a humanitarian crisis,” said the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s largest city. As Puerto Rico struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria, Trump has reminded the island of its “massive debt,” adding the U.S. territory “owed to Wall Street and the […]

Extreme Weather

If Trump were really President, he’d Forgive Puerto Rico’s Debts and Rescue it

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | – – I’m not sure what Donald Trump thinks the job of president consists of. One task is to swing into action when 3.4 million Americans are living without electricity, 40% of them without potable water, and hundreds of thousands without shelter. When some 80% of its agricultural […]

Climate Change

How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes

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By Levi Gahman and Gabrielle Thongs | (The Conversation) | – – Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on […]

Climate Change

Tweeting while the Planet Burns: Dystopia 2025

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By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – It’s January 2025, and within days of entering the Oval Office, a new president already faces his first full-scale crisis abroad. Twenty-four years after it began, the war on terror, from the Philippines to Nigeria, rages on. In 2024 alone, the U.S. launched repeated air […]

Caribbean

Much of U.S.’s Puerto Rico “Destroyed” by 138 mi/hr Storm, Pleads with Trump for Aid

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By TeleSUR | – – Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to declare the island a “disaster” area. Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in almost 90 years, leaving at least nine people dead and causing widespread flooding. The Puerto Rican […]