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Forget the Praise: BC’s Carbon Tax Is a Failure
Forget the Praise: BC’s Carbon Tax Is a Failure Higher emissions, slow growth, regressive taxation. Sorry, what’s to celebrate? ‘We think in British Columbia a carbon tax is a really successful way to go,’ BC’s premier said last year. The only problem is it doesn’t work. Photo of Premier Clark at GLOBE 2016 by Mychaylo […]
Pentagon’s War on the Earth
Pentagon’s War on the Earth We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces—and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices—also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil […]
Indian Point: Fukushima’s Mini-Me
Indian Point: Fukushima’s Mini-Me Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant New York continually leaks radioactivity into the Hudson River. This has been going on for years. Seriously! Meanwhile, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo agrees with advocacy groups such as Riverkeeper, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and The Sierra Club to close Indian Point. Why? Environmentalists claim the […]
Going beyond the “ecological turn” in the humanities
Going beyond the “ecological turn” in the humanities Talk about the Anthropocene often has a tendency to rely on apolitical and colonialist assumptions. But the turn to ecology in the humanities will require acknowledging—and, more importantly, supporting—those peoples who have never turned their back on ‘ecology’ in the first place. Photo by Aaron Vasintjan. There’s […]
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies Two recent studies further call into question the oil and gas industry’s claims of the climate benefits and community benefits of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). One of those studies, published in Environmental Research Letters and titled, “Just fracking: a distributive environmental justice analysis of […]
Warming means unfair share for poor
Warming means unfair share for poor A bumper catch off the coast of northern Norway may be bad news for fishermen in southern waters. Image: Bo Eide via Flickr As temperatures rise with climate change, the Earth’s natural capital will change too − but there may be few winners, even among the wealthy. LONDON, 5 March, 2016 – Climate […]
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout The environmental impacts of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are already becoming apparent, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace Japan, and for humans and other living things in the region, there is “no end in sight” to the ecological fallout. The report warns that […]
John Perkins: The Shadow World Of The Economic Hitman
John Perkins: The Shadow World Of The Economic Hitman An exposé of the ugly global battle for control of resources If you’re hoping to have a ‘feel good’ day today, we’re about to owe you an apology. John Perkins, author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is someone we’ve been trying to get […]
The Newest Strategy For Saving Bees Is Really, Really Old
THE NEWEST STRATEGY FOR SAVING BEES IS REALLY, REALLY OLD With pollinators in decline around the world, conservationists turn to traditional farmers for answers. Photo by budak (Flickr/Creative Commons) February 15, 2016 — In northwestern India, the Himalaya Mountains rise sharply out of pine and cedar forests. The foothills of the Kullu Valley are blanketed with […]
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million […]
Monsanto is Suing California for Telling People the Truth About Its Chemicals
Monsanto is Suing California for Telling People the Truth About Its Chemicals (ANTIMEDIA) California — Monsanto is suing the State of California for its intent to include glyphosate — the main ingredient in its wildly popular herbicide, Roundup — on its Proposition 65 toxic chemicals list. California’s decision came after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for […]
Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims
Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the safest pipeline ever built in the in the United States is challenged by the release of new documentation confirming multiple code violations. Daily inspection reports on the construction […]
Will Cap-And-Trade Slow Climate Change?
Will Cap-And-Trade Slow Climate Change? The principle that polluters should pay for the waste they create has led many experts to urge governments to put a price on carbon emissions. One method is the sometimes controversial cap-and-trade. Quebec, California and the European Union have already adopted cap-and-trade, and Ontario will join Quebec and California’s system in January […]
