BY RICHARD HEINBERG Refinery, Ashland, Kentucky. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Similar to the two navigational hazards mythologized as sea monsters in ancient Greece—Scylla and Charybdis—which gave rise to sayings such as, “between the devil and the […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – https://www.flickr.com/photos/iaea_imagebank/11083570446/ – CC BY-SA 2.0 The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting […]
“The violence of fossil fuels must come to an end to save life on Earth,” said one campaigner. ANDREA GERMANOS Over 520 organizations told President Joe Biden on Wednesday to urgently “end the fossil fuel era” […]
Katie Miernicki Download PDF flyer As we celebrate the beauty, diversity, and life-sustaining qualities of our planet this Earth Day, we must also recognize the dire future that awaits it under the status quo. It […]
Call it hell on Earth and you’re anything but exaggerating. TOM ENGELHARDT by TomDispatch Face it, we’re living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule. Only the other day, […]
BY WES JACKSON – ROBERT JENSEN Chip barge and mills, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In a 1970 poster for the first Earth Day and a cartoon the following year, Walt Kelly’s Pogo offered a […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Jewish settlers accused of destroying Palestinian olive trees Photograph Source: ToddBF – CC BY 2.0 A long time ago in the Milky Way galaxy on a planet named Earth the trees died. It only […]
BY MICHAEL BARKER Power sub-station, Imperial Valley. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. It is no surprise that capitalism, a system that prioritises private profit before all else, is destroying our planet. And it is no surprise that […]
Nazi illegal JEWISH colonizers cut at least forty olive trees and several cactus trees in a Palestinian orchard in the al-Jab’a village, south of Bethlehem, in the Nazi occupied West Bank. Thiab Masha’la, the head […]
BYCandice Bernd, TruthoutPUBLISHEDMarch 29, 2022SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email Covering Climate Now PART OF THE SERIES Russia’s War on Ukraine in an Age of Escalating Imperial Tensions Climate activists living under the constant blare […]