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Saving the planet means saving the world
Lisa Pelling
2024-03-13 2:24 PM
Instead of today’s economic system, which increases inequality, a new system is indispensable, according to Rockström and colleagues. What is needed is a ‘wellbeing economy’ which serves people and the planet—rather than people and the planet serving the economy, as the Wellbeing Economic Alliance (WeAll) puts it. (text/plain)
Cottage with a catastrophic view
Tomasz Konicz
2023-11-09 1:21 PM
According to various forecasts, between 300,000 and 1.9 million coastal properties in the USA will be affected by "regular flooding" in the coming decades. By 2100, the city center of Miami and large parts of Miami-Dade County are likely to be permanently below sea level - along with real estate currently worth 400 billion US dollars. (text/plain)
Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings
Anjoulie Woodhead
2023-10-04 6:09 PM
Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum – which in Latin means “Praise God” – is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment. (text/plain)
When everything tips over
Juliane Schumacher
2023-08-04 9:23 AM
So it's high time for the left to break out of its shock paralysis, to start politicizing knowledge again and to develop its own models and approaches that are both bigger and smaller than the warning about the end of humanity. First, by taking into account the economic structures.... And on the other hand, by going into the painstaking, everyday detail work. (text/plain)
IMF Forecasts Lowest Growth in Decades as World Leaders Descend on Washington for Meetings
Jubilee USA Network
2023-04-13 8:36 PM
Debt Roundtable Meetings Attempt to Break Impasse on Debt Relief From China and Private Sector (text/plain)
Economic war instead of climate policy and Russia is enemy
Georg Auernheimer and Friedrich Homann
2022-09-04 5:02 PM
Sustainability and capitalism do not go together. Because capitalism needs growth and drives environmental destruction. The consequences: Species extinction, drought stress for trees, water scarcity. A consistent climate policy is overshadowed by the economic war. (text/plain)
Only a progressive tax revolution can stop the climate collapse
Ulrich Thielemann
2022-08-30 1:48 PM
There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse. (text/plain)
The dispute over Tesla's Gigafactory
Gunter Hayn
2022-08-02 8:44 PM
Theodor Fontane at the end of the book: "All reformatory power nowadays rests with the purse, ideas count for little, law counts for nothing. Tesla's Gigafactory will probably prove to be both a curse and a blessing in perspective. (text/plain)
Degrowth - not just Green New Deals!
Matthias Schmelzer, A Vetter & A Vansintjan
2022-07-12 4:28 PM
We live in a time of many and accelerating crises. Climate breakdown is breathing down our neck. Biodiversity is collapsing in ecosystems around the world, and many natural safety nets – water cycles, soil fertility, fish stocks, microbial diversity – are unraveling. (text/plain)
Plunder less and do more to preserve the one world
Hans Steiger
2022-07-12 11:10 AM
It is downright absurd that in our latitudes, half a century after "Limits to Growth" and a cascade of catastrophic ecological reports, every dip in economic growth rates is perceived as negative, even dramatic. Immediately shore up, revive, that's what politicians and the media agree on. (text/plain)
The red giant's plastic problem
Theresa Crysmann
2022-06-14 3:22 PM
A tattered Coca-Cola flag flutters on the beach of Ixia on Rhodes: every year, the beverage company produces more than 100 billion single-use plastic bottles. Many of them end up in the sea...In a few years, there is likely to be more plastic swimming in the oceans than fish. (text/plain)
The window of opportunity is closing
Klaus Dorre
2022-06-11 4:07 PM
Oscar Wilde wrote: "A map of the world in which Utopia is not marked is not worth looking at, for it undercuts the shore on which mankind will eternally land." "Disobedience, for anyone versed in history, is man's true virtue. Through disobedience came progress..." (Wilde 2014) (text/plain)
Stress for the soul. Climate change triggers stress and despair
Matthias Becker
2022-05-20 2:34 PM
Psychology understands fear as an arousal that primarily causes displeasure. Fear is never rational, but sometimes it is appropriate and serves as an alarm. Anxiety disorders, on the other hand, according to the common definition, are directed at non-existent dangers... (text/plain)
The Creative Universe
Roland Rottenfusser
2022-02-18 12:52 PM
Evolution is more than struggle for existence and competition. Modern scientists are discovering elements of beauty, play and freedom in nature. Apparently spontaneously, life keeps producing new forms. Yet evolution seems headed toward a goal: the universe can view and enjoy itself. (text/plain)
Destrosying what is destroying the planet?
Jan Ole Arps and Guido Speckmann
2022-01-12 6:51 PM
The decisions of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow are a disaster. They seal the course for a drastic and irreversible heating of the earth, which threatens the survival of hundreds of millions of people and countless animal and plant species. (text/plain)
Ecosocialist strategy: industrial restructuring
Christian Zeller
2022-01-02 3:28 PM
The findings of international climate research and the IPCC are clear. World society is heading for tipping points that will abruptly change the earth and climate system. As a result, several billion people will lose their previous livelihoods in a few decades. (text/plain)
The wrong climate strategy of the United Nations
Daniel Tanuro
2021-12-16 12:51 AM
To stay below 1.5 °C, net global CO2 emissions must be reduced by 59 percent by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050. 80.2 percent of these emissions are due to the burning of fossil fuels.
In 2019, these fuels still met 84.3 percent of humanity's energy needs. (text/plain)
The Rich's Deal
Susi Stuhlinger
2021-12-06 12:13 PM
The richest percent of the world's population accounts for fifteen percent of global emissions, which is twice as much as the entire poorer half of the world's inhabitants together are responsible for CO2. Once again, the rich countries benefit from the deal negotiated in Glasgow. (text/plain)
Promoting Sustainable Economics
Gerd Zeitler
2021-12-01 1:48 AM
The protagonists of neoliberal globalization seek to fight the devastations – for which they bear responsibility – by the same means that cause the devastations. Now is the time to seize the opportunity and build up economic policy pressure to enforce the development of an economic order that is sustainably oriented... (text/plain)
Climate Change 2021, 40 pp
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2021-11-24 3:41 PM
It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. A.1.1 Since 2011, concentrations have continued to increase in the atmosphere, reaching annual averages of 410 parts (text/plain)
ENMOD (Environmental Modification) Partial List Of Effects:
bg
2021-11-09 10:33 PM
the vatican and its subsidiaries have been willfully melting the ice caps since hitlers time, and creating deniability in the media they control with a song and dance about global warming and climate chaos, which are real but being done on purpose so the elite can attack the people who own land on the coasts, and so they can get the new coastland before anyone realizes, and so they can get at what is under the ice. (image/jpeg)
The 1.5 target calls for an eco-socialist revolution
Hans Rackwitz
2021-10-23 3:48 PM
The only responsible way forward is the IPCC's P1 scenario, which envisages rapid and radical interventions in existing production, transport and consumption structures, i.e. a massive industrial transformation and deconstruction in the main capitalist countries (15ff.). (text/plain)
Is Green Growth the Solution?
Yaak Pabst
2021-10-12 1:58 PM
Just as every millimeter of social progress must be fought for against capital interests, the protection of nature and climate must also be won against the rulers. In these struggles lies the future of the planet. (text/plain)
Capitalist dilemmas and The Greed for More
Nikolaus Gietinger and Justus Cider
2021-10-08 1:12 PM
The overexploitation of nature did not remain without resistance. However, these were ignored by both the left and the right. The "requirements of shipping and agriculture" destroy original functions of the floodplain landscapes. "And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find,maybe we should change the system" (text/plain)
With a plan against the climate crisis
Philip Broistedt and Christian Hofmann
2021-09-02 12:24 PM
Quality and enjoyment would be the new maxims, and the true wealth would be free time. Admittedly, a change in consciousness would remain necessary, and many a convenience in lifestyle would have to be abandoned in favor of the ecosystem. However, the standard of living could be raised significantly through free time. (text/plain)
S.F. STILL PROMOTING GENOCIDE
Aleksander and Friends - Part Two
2021-07-20 9:51 PM
San Francisco still refusing to tell the truth about any of this. Still promoting genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Shrink or Die?
John Bellamy Foster
2021-06-24 5:40 PM
Shrinkage means the voluntary downsizing of the national economy, including a reduction in gross domestic product. "Voluntary" here indicates a preference for voluntaristic solutions - though not as individualistic and unplanned where well-to-do opt out of the consumerist market model. (text/plain)
Saving the planet by disempowering the elites
Ullrich Mies
2021-04-22 12:37 AM
Humanity is at the final crossroads of becoming aware of the drama of the ecological and peace crisis in which it finds itself. The book "The Eco-Catastrophe" is a wake-up call to take note of the seriousness of the situation, to accept the Herculean tasks ahead, to understand the growth ideology of global capitalism. (text/plain)
"There is no vaccine to save the planet"
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
2020-12-12 12:22 PM
In the Arctic, 2020 has seen exceptional warmth, with temperatures more than 3 degrees Celsius above average - and more than 5 degrees in northern Siberia. Arctic sea ice in October was the lowest on record - and now re-freezing has been the slowest on record. Greenland ice has continued its long-term decline. (text/plain)
Earthquakes and Nukes
Michael Steinberg
2020-11-29 8:23 AM
Most of us associate earthquakes with California. But what happens when there's a shaker on the East Coast? (text/plain)
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