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Duterte Exposes The Difference Between Homegrown Environmentalism And a Neo-Colonial Green Movement
Duterte Exposes The Difference Between Homegrown Environmentalism And a Neo-Colonial Green Movement President Duterte’s record on the domestic environment is arguably the best of any modern Filipino leader. His project to clean up Manila Bay has seen a once heavily polluted body of water return to a place of beauty whilst just over a year […]
Toronto Will Explore Suing Big Oil for Climate Costs
Toronto Will Explore Suing Big Oil for Climate Costs Toronto could be the next major city to file a climate liability suit to recoup climate costs from the fossil fuel industry. Photo credit: City of Toronto Toronto became the latest city to explore possible litigation to make fossil fuel companies pay for the costs of […]
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems Planetary Boundaries. Nitrogen and biodiversity are farther out of safe limits than any others (Rockstrom et. al, Nature, 2009) Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. Continuing our series […]
The Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ Movement Grows as Scotland Joins
The Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ Movement Grows as Scotland Joins Also, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launched a bid to declare a climate emergency in the United Kingdom. A banner is hung across a roadway while people participate in direct action with Extinction Rebellion on April 17, 2019 in New York City. The activists are […]
Fast Arctic melt could cost $70 trillion
Fast Arctic melt could cost $70 trillion The rapid pace of the Arctic thaw may exact a very high price. Image: By Roxanne Desgagnés on Unsplash Polar change, notably the fast Arctic melt, could impose huge costs on world economies. New evidence shows how rapidly the frozen north is changing. LONDON, 26 April, 2019 – The northern reaches of the […]
Across the U.S., Flood Survivors are Growing in Number–And They Aren’t Just Seeking Restitution, But Answers
ACROSS THE U.S., FLOOD SURVIVORS ARE GROWING IN NUMBER — AND THEY AREN’T JUST SEEKING RESTITUTION, BUT ANSWERS As risk of floods increases, so does awareness and determination among flood survivors, who are no longer simply victims, but an ever-growing constituency for change. Photo courtesy of Floodlothian Midlothian April 23, 2019 — Susan Liley didn’t set […]
Report: Big Oil Is Spending ‘’Too Much’’ On New Oil Production
Report: Big Oil Is Spending ‘’Too Much’’ On New Oil Production Big Oil plans to spend nearly US$5 trillion in capital expenditure over the next decade, much of which would go into adding new production. Yet this money will also bring the world farther from the Paris Agreement climate targets, a report from energy industry-focused […]
EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike
EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike On April 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told two environmental groups that it had decided it was “not necessary” to update the federal standards handling toxic waste from oil and gas wells, including the waste produced by fracking. State regulators have repeatedly proved unable to prevent […]
Global Climate Coalition: Documents Reveal How Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Programs
Global Climate Coalition: Documents Reveal How Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Programs A fossil fuel–backed industry group was able to influence the process behind the United Nations climate assessments for decades, using lobbyists and industry-funded scientists to manipulate international negotiations, a cache of recently discovered documents reveals. The documents include hundreds of briefings, […]
Can Humanity and Nature Co-Exist Under Capitalism?
Can Humanity and Nature Co-Exist Under Capitalism? Two new documentaries tackle the all-important question of our age, namely how humanity and nature can co-exist in a period of insurmountable capitalist contradiction, especially when humanity takes the form of small businesspeople hoping to exploit natural resources under duress. Opening at The Landmark at 57 West on […]
The Earth for Their Possession
The Earth for Their Possession Book Cover I was in Hawaii to discuss ‘history from below’ together with that powerful practitioner of said history, scholarly abolitionist, writer, and colleague, Marcus Rediker. How is ‘history from below’ to be distinguished from similar forms of history writing, such as people’s history, radical history, labor history, social history, […]
Still Snowing in the Heart of America – The Longer Winter & Shorter Summer Cycle
Still Snowing in the Heart of America – The Longer Winter & Shorter Summer Cycle COMMENT: Well you said this winter would be long and the summer shorter. It is still snowing here in the heart of America. It looks like your computer is correct again. Instead of funding research for billion dollars to pretend there is […]
Living With Integrity
Living With Integrity It’s time to choose a new direction. Every so often, our work in the premium side of PeakProsperity.com is deemed so important that our paying subscribers request we share it with the general public. Last week’s ‘Off The Cuff’ podcast received so many of these requests that we are releasing it to […]
The US Chamber of Commerce’s “New” Take on Climate Change
The US Chamber of Commerce’s “New” Take on Climate Change The climate is changing, and humans are contributing to these changes. We believe that there is much common ground on which all sides of this discussion could come together to address climate change with policies that are practical, flexible, predictable, and durable. — The US Chamber […]
