Ronnie Cummins challenges the widely used official estimate of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. agriculture.
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food & Climate Change
Category: Climate Change
Labor and Environment Movement’s Complex Stance on Green New Deal
Aviva Chomsky reports on the complexities of labor’s response to the Green New Deal and little-known divisions over the plan within the environmental movement.
The Great Reckoning
From a vantage point in the not-too-distant future Andrew J. Bacevich looks back on 2019 as a year when, in retrospect, it was clear the United States had passed a point of no return.
Only Enlightened Collectivism Can Save Us
We are witnessing a mass extinction and no amount of rugged individualism is going to solve it, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
As Costs of Climate Crisis Grow, Protest Movement Escalates
Long term campaigns to decarbonize the economy and demand emergency climate policies are getting stronger, write Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.
The Danger of Getting Sidetracked
What this story really shows is how the corporate media derails meaningful debates and draws us all into a modern version of bread and circuses, writes Jonathan Cook.
Fake Meat: Big Food’s Attempt to Further Industrialize What We Eat
We need to decolonize our food cultures and our minds of food imperialism, writes Vandana Shiva.
The Madness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies
A system worried about global warming and the health impacts of air pollution should stop aiding companies that produce those public threats, writes Niklas Hagelberg.
King Coal Rules in Australian Vote
It was one of the most shocking results in decades. Labor appeared poised for victory but a coal mine in Queensland played an outsized role in the Liberals maintaining power in Canberra, reports Catherine Vogan.