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Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode
Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening to the nonhuman life forms with which we share this planet, you’ve likely heard the term “the Sixth Extinction.” If not, look it up. After all, a superb environmental reporter, Elizabeth Kolbert, has already gotten a Pulitzer Prize for writing […]
Democratizing Money
Democratizing Money The Green New Deal has been in the air lately. In a recent piece on this website, Rob Urie writes that the Green New Deal is “the last, best hope for environmental and social resolution outside of rapid dissolution toward dystopian hell.” Quite a claim. Let’s take a closer look. The Green New […]
War, Anniversaries and Lessons Never Learned
War, Anniversaries and Lessons Never Learned Photo Source NARA FILE #: 208-YE-7 | CC BY 2.0 On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered the Second World War. A war of horrors, it normalized the intensive, barbaric bombing of civilian populations. If the Spanish Civil War gave us Guernica and Picasso’s […]
The Deathly Insect Dilemma
The Deathly Insect Dilemma Photo Source Ryan McGuire | CC BY 2.0 Insect abundance is plummeting with wild abandon, worldwide! Species evolve and go extinct as part of nature’s normal course over thousands and millions of years, but the current rate of devastation is off the charts and downright scary. Moreover, there is no quick […]
Degrowth: Toward a Green Revolution
Degrowth: Toward a Green Revolution The Americanism that people will never voluntarily give up the consumption that is killing the planet represents the triumph of a long con. The problem that consumed (apologies) economists in the early twentieth century was how to get people to want the stuff that capitalism produces. Past the point of […]
What If We Just Buy Off Big Fossil Fuel? A Novel Plan to Mitigate the Climate Calamity
What If We Just Buy Off Big Fossil Fuel? A Novel Plan to Mitigate the Climate Calamity Photo Source Food & Water Watch | CC BY 2.0 As the nations of the world are gathered in Poland to fret about the state of the climate, there’s an unpleasant truth—one might say an inconvenient truth—that climate […]
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction Photo Source reurinkjan | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration predictably tried to bury the dire warnings contained in the fourth National Climate Assessment by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, when many people would be distracted by the mass consumption frenzy known as Black Friday. […]
Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power
Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power Photo Source pedrik | CC BY 2.0 As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded onto the world stage with their own bold geopolitical visions for winning international […]
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops […]
Climate Jobs for All
Climate Jobs for All Building Block for the Green New Deal It was an iconic moment: Young people occupy Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding a Green New Deal to put millions of people to work making a climate-safe economy — when suddenly newly-elected Congressional representative and overnight media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins them with a resolutionin […]
Iran: Rumors of War
Iran: Rumors of War Photo Source Blondinrikard Fröberg | CC BY 2.0 Consider a conversation between long-time Middle East reporter Reese Erlich and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles Freeman, Jr. on the people currently directing the Trump administration’s policy toward Iran. Commenting on National Security Advisor John Bolton’s defense of the invasion of […]
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power”
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power” In my Nov. 16 column, I reported on potential radiation risks posed by California’s Woolsey wildfire having burned over parts or all of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory—south of Simi Valley, Calif., 30 […]
The End of Illusion
The End of Illusion Photo Source Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 The following is the Epilogue from Jeffrey St. Clair’s and Joshua Frank’s new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink, available now from CounterPunch Books. In the spring of 2017, the carbon dioxide readings at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai’i cracked […]
An Ode to Chomsky
An Ode to Chomsky Photo Source Matthew Straubmuller | CC BY 2.0 Ninety years old and still going strong. Almost twenty years after the age when that other great left-wing public intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was already utterly frail, uncommunicative, pliable in the hands of his handlers, and prone to haplessly spilling egg and mayonnaise on his face while […]
