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Jane Goodall on Climate Change: ‘Something’s Got to Give’
At the age of 26, Dr Jane Goodall pioneered new ways of researching animals including by living with them. Now, aged 85 and a UN Messenger of Peace, she travels more than 300 days a year to share the urgency of taking action on climate change on behalf of all living things and the planet we share.
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Earth Overshoot Day is July 29, the Earliest Ever
It’s official. We’ve exhausted Earth’s natural resources for the year… and it’s only July. According to the Global Footprint Network, July 29 is Earth Overshoot Day this year, the date that human demand for ecological resources and services has surpassed what the Earth can regenerate in a year.
Read MoreClimate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilisation Hell Bent on Destroying Itself – I’m Terrified’, Writes Earth Scientist
To understand you are in a prison, you must first be able to see the bars. That this prison was created by humans over many generations doesn’t change the conclusion that we are currently tightly bound up within a system that could, if we do not act, lead to the impoverishment, and even death of billions of people.
Read MoreSaying Goodbye to Planet Earth
Chris Hedges argues that “the human-induced change to the ecosystem, at least for many thousands of years, will probably make the biosphere inhospitable to most forms of life [without] halting our consumption of fossil fuels, converting to a plant-based diet and dismantling the animal agriculture industry as well as greening deserts and restoring rainforests.”
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The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming
In a new report, scientists warn of a precipitous drop in the world’s insect population, a situation that could be just as catastrophic to humans as it is to insects. To avoid insect apocalypse, we need to reduce the size of our agricultural footprint.
Read MoreThe (Other) Economic Madness of the Green New Deal
A green new deal that creates new jobs and stimulates economic growth amounts to little more than a final blow-out binge before our once-and-done global economy comes crashing down around our ears. The only means of mitigating the environmental catastrophe that is gathering pace around us is to engage in a managed process of de-growth to create far smaller, localised and less consumptive economies than we have had for many decades.
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US Admits to Pushing Ukraine Into a Fight It Can’t WinA US "windfall" in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost. […]- We’re Taught About Liberal And Conservative Bias In Media, But Not US Empire BiasOne of the biggest problems with the urgent push for “media literacy” we’ve been seeing in the west these last few years is that everyone’s being taught about liberal bias and conservative bias in media, but they’re not being taught about US empire bias. […]
- Across the West, People Are Dying in Greater Numbers. Nobody Wants To Learn WhyThere's only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover […]
- The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of JournalismJulian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. […]
- Another Act of Terror. How the Media Do PR for Biden and ZelenskyCoverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts. […]
- Safety ThirdSafety-obsession deadens the spirit. It wraps a constriction band around life. It is always a little dangerous to probe one’s boundaries. It is always a bit dangerous to venture into the unknown. “Safety first” shrinks the horizons of possibility. […]
- How BBC Coverage Is Enabling Israeli State Violence at Al-AqsaOnce again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression. […]
- It’s Not Just the Settlers – or Israel – Responsible for the Torching of HuwwaraEndless indulgence from Israel’s supporters in the West has cleared a path to a fascist government intent on ‘wiping out’ Palestinian communities […]
- Caitlin Johnstone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone contemplates the war in Ukraine, corporate media, the U.S. empire and more. […]
- Woke ImperialismWoke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state. […]