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Capitalism Is Killing Us
2024-08-23 by in Counter PunchNeither politicians (across the continuum) nor corporate media pundits engage in meaningful public discourse on climate and the environment. They choose
Tagged under: Capitalism
Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
2024-07-25 by in Counter PunchDisconnection from nature is a catalyst for the present environmental crisis and several physical, mental, and emotional illnesses. With mental health
Climate Agreements Suck
2024-03-25 by in Counter PunchGlobal CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one year ago, see: CO2 Bursting into the Atmosphere. This is not supposed to be happening. It is twisting the planet’s climate system into a pretzel that doesn’t know which way to turn next. There are plenty of reasons to believe it is going to get much, much worse. The planet’s climate system is already so far whacked-out that it’s breathing fire.
Greenland Cascading 30 Million Tons Per Hour
2024-03-15 by in Counter PunchFacing Future.tv recently conducted an interview about spooky new developments in Greenland. The ice sheet is cascading/gushing at unheard of rates never
Coastal Cities at High Noon
2024-03-08 by in Counter PunchAntarctica, the massive continent of ice, the size of the continental US and Mexico combined, is breaking apart more and more as a recent scientific
Tagged under: Sea Level | Antarctic
Antarctica Under Siege and XR Takes a Radical Turn
2024-01-05 by in Counter PunchAntarctica has finally succumbed to rapid climate change. This past year (2023) brought changes to the icy continent that left climate scientists feeling
Tagged under: Activism | Ice Melting | Climate Change | Antarctic | Extinction Rebellion
Showdown at COP28
2023-11-17 by in Counter Punch“$200 trillion is needed to stop global warming” (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple weeks in the pristine
Tagged under: COP28 | Global Warming | Finance
Accountability Needed at the Country’s Most Toxic Site
2023-05-26 by in Counter PunchOn the edge of Washington state, just a few miles from the great Columbia River, boiling radioactive sludge is seeping out of a huge underground tank
Tagged under: Rivers | Washington State
Monster Heat Hits 1/3rd of World Population
2023-04-24 by in Counter PunchGlobal warming is hitting full stride as SE Asia, inclusive of parts of China and India literally roast. It’s a bad omen for the rest of the world as the entire planet is threatened by an emerging El Niño event starting this year. El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern oscillation that originates in the equatorial Pacific every few years, bringing on more heat throughout the planet. According to euronews.com/green, El Niño is forecast to return in 2023 and could set new temperature records.
Disturbing Sea Level Studies
2023-04-14 by in Counter PunchFor decades, climate scientists have been sounding the alarm that unless the nations of the world stop emitting greenhouse gases global warming will bring
Tagged under: Sea Level
Ozone Troubles, Once Again
2023-04-07 by in Counter PunchNASA: “Without ozone, the Sun’s intense UV radiation would sterilize the Earth’s surface.” It was 36 years ago in panic mode when the world came together
Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
2022-10-14 by in Counter PunchMuch of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of electric
Polar Scientist Explains Peril of Thwaites
2022-06-10 by in Counter PunchTed Scambos, a polar scientist with 20 trips to Antarctica under his belt, makes a living trekking across glaciers, measuring the speed, thickness, and
Tagged under: Antarctic
Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as "Feeding the World"
2020-12-01 in Counter PunchThe world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness
Tagged under: Farming
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out
2020-11-20 in Counter PunchExpert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | IPCC | Extinction
Money Capital vs Life Capital: the War of Values We Live or Die By
2020-07-16 in Counter PunchUnder the name of ‘growth’, self-multiplying private money sequences turn all that exists into ever more of their own demand with no life necessity regulating them. We now know a few billionaires own more than the majority of the world. What is not tracked is how they exponentially increase their fortunes by massive pollution and depletion of all that supports life to auto-maximize their profits - from the air and the water to the ice-caps and the biomes of our soil and guts. This is shamefully called ‘the free market’, and ‘overpopulation’ of the poor is still blamed for the results.
Tagged under: Capitalism
10C Above Baseline
2020-05-22 in Counter PunchEarth at 10°C above pre-industrial is unimaginable. It’s a deadly horrifying thought, but as shall be explained herein, it should not be dismissed out of
BlackRock Takes Command
2020-04-08 in Counter PunchThe mainstream financial press has been remarkably quiet about the Federal Reserve’s appointment (March 24) of BlackRock to manage its massive corporate
Globalizing the War on Indigenous People: Bolsonaro and Modi
2020-01-24 in Counter PunchA man who has repeatedly romanticized dictatorship and advocated the use of torture seems like an odd choice for guest of honor at the annual celebration
Tagged under: Indigenous People | India | Bolsonaro
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