At this crossroads, it is important to be able to identify the different ways we are being told to delay action, writes Mark Maslin.
Category: Climate Change
Capitalism’s Suicidal Trajectory
Those who live in the West only hear one side of the story – the one about vanquishing communism, writes Jonathan Cook.
There’s Still No ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress
Today there’s no climate bill to vote on, there’s no bill in the pipeline and it is unlikely that there will be one soon, warns Arn Menconi.
The Situation Room, October 2039
Displaced by Desert: Expanding Sahara Leaves Broken Families & Violence in its Wake
Issa Sikiti da Silva reports on the struggles for many in the Sahel, the area between the Sahara in the north and the Sudanian Savanna in the south where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth.
Misogyny, Male Rage & the Words Men Use to Describe Greta Thunberg
Camilla Nelson and Meg Vertigan comment on the stereotypical labels deployed against the young climate activist.
The Greening of the New Deal
Charges that the Green New Deal will crash the budget and serve as an antechamber to socialism are just as bogus as similar arguments against its Depression-era predecessor, writes Steve Fraser.
Greta Thunberg & the Consolation of Doubt
Jonathan Cook catalogs the three types of criticism that a section of the progressive left is aiming at a Swedish child who is finally saying what they have been thinking.
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‘Planet So Small We Must Live in Peace’
Ann Wright reports on her citizen-to-citizen trip to Russia. Everywhere, including in Siberia, memories of World War II are still fresh.