Movie review: Snowpiercer
If you feel like some gritty, thrilling, eco-dystopian cinema, this currently trending cli-fi epic is available on multiple streaming platforms.
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From COVID-19 to Climate: Lessons for Climate Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing deep inequalities in race and economic status, and the inadequacy of the nation’s social safety nets. Still, the massive social disruption caused by the pandemic offers important lessons to consider as we craft strategies for aggressive climate action.
Cotton in Community: Reconnecting to Traditional Indian Farming Practices in the Prakriti Fibershed
I don’t think I would have been as passionate about organic farming and ethical supply chains if I had grown up in Bombay or Delhi, somewhere far away. It’s because I saw all the damage happening first-hand that I’ve been so keen to bring about solutions and change.
Beyond the Divides of Black-and-White Thinking – Coming Together in the Heart of Our Wholeness: Part 3
We need to come together and pool our wisdom, strength and resources to build a whole new system, a world where all are privileged, to live in bounty, beauty on this wonderful Earth we’ve been given.
Are Worst-Case Climate Scenarios Less Likely, as Media Reports of a New Scientific Paper Suggest?
Reading the media reporting of a new scientific paper released on 22 July, it was easy to get the impression that some “worse-case” climate warming possibilities are now off the agenda. “So this is good news?” a friend emailed. “No” was my answer.
National Environmental Policy Act Revisions—Another Case of Botch-ilism
Long promised, the Trump administration has now issued its final revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA or Act). The changes are among the most aggressive and widespread deregulatory actions taken to date by an administration that has already moved to rescind or substantially revise 100 environmental regulations.
Why Low-End ‘Climate Sensitivity’ can Now be Ruled Out
After four years of labour and detailed discussions by an international team of scientists, we are able to quantify better than ever before how the world’s surface temperature responds to increasing CO2 levels.
People Want a Greener, Happier World Now. But our Politicians have Other Ideas
There are practical reasons to believe that Normal is a fairyland to which we can never return. The virus has not gone away, and is likely to keep recurring in waves. But let’s focus on another question: if such a land existed, would we want to live there?
The Cure of the Earth
Appeals to self-interest will not, of themselves, stem the Amazon’s hemorrhage. We must also invoke our love of life and the purpose of service that it points to.
Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Face a Triple Threat from COVID-19, the Dismantling of Socio-Environmental Policies, and International Inaction
The wilful jeopardising of indigenous peoples’ lives is particularly grave when you consider that the death of each elder represents the “burning of a library“.
Goodbye, Clean Water, Goodbye EPA
The rush by Donald Trump to dismantle the administrative state is producing an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strangely complicit in its own destruction. Bit by bit, the EPA will have less to enforce.
The Revolution Will Not Be “Green”
Long imagined as a bulwark against ecological destruction, players in the mainstream conservation movement—think big NGOs like The Nature Conservancy and their corporate partners—have actually been complicit in that destruction by propping up a fundamentally unsustainable capitalist system and the nature-culture dichotomy it’s built upon.
