How Bad Can It Get?
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Matt Palmer. How bad can it (climate change) get? The sky’s the limit! No pun intended. Still, the general public is tired of negative articles about climate change. It turns them off. […]
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A River of Shit Runs Through It
BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Gallatin River, near Big Sky. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The latest national “news” that extremely wealthy people are buying up Montana and the West was about as revealing to Montanans as telling us the sky […]
This is No Time for Climate Complacency
BY STAN COX Illustration: Priti Gulalti Cox. The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed by the mainstream climate movement, Congress members, and the media as the most important climate bill in U.S. history. That’s a pretty low bar, […]
The Urgency of Nuclear Abolition
BY RAY ACHESON B-29 over Osaka on 1 June 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo) After a year and a half’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is […]
The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction
A firefighter walks near a pool as a neighboring home burns in the Napa wine region in California on Monday, as multiple wind-driven fires continue to whip through the region. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images). We were […]
We are One Species
BY WES JACKSON – ROBERT JENSEN Homeless camp and salmon mural under Morrison Bridge, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The world is a mess, in both social and ecological terms, mired in unjust and unsustainable […]
Rising Sea Level and Settler Hubris Ahead
BY JUDY ROHRER Ironwoods at Kailua Beach Park, photo by Judy Rhorer. We got off the plane from California and headed to the windward side of O’ahu. We immediately took off our shoes, changed into shorts, […]
Groups Demand Egypt Uphold Right to Protest at Global Climate Summit
Posted by: John Phoenix Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi takes part in a meeting at the European Council Building in Brussels on February 18, 2022. (Photo: Johanna Geron/POOL/AFP via Getty Images). “The authorities should pledge […]
Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks? By Ellen BrownGlobal Research, “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing” have […]
Climate and the Collapse of World Order
BY PATRICK MAZZA ile international law emerged in challenges by The Netherlands to Iberian control of the seas. The Dutch, succeeding Portugal in Asia, used their wealth to create a new form of secular and republican […]