Climate Politics/Capitol Light (20)
Millions of people, led by students, are signing up to walk out of their schools and jobs on September 20 and 27 to demand the world stop using fossil fuels—according to organizers.
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Feeding the World
In some places, people will subsist on animal husbandry or hunting and fishing, like the Maasai or Inuit; in others, tree crops will form the bulk of the diet. Densely concentrated farming will have to be used in some areas, where far more calories per acre will be needed than corn or wheat can provide.
Climate Politics/Capitol Light (19)
The dilemma in these cases is really about the impracticality of making oil companies pay the trillions of dollars in damages caused by an act that the federal government essentially sanctions—the refinement, sale, and use oil and gas. You can also lump in coal.
Violated Earth – Violent Earth: Revisiting Causes and Effects of Humans’ Misdemeanor and Nature’s Power
We all need to transform our lifestyles as well.I believe any transformation process will consist of a “patchwork of solutions”; some will evolve in parallel, some mutually enhancing and some may also turn out not to be successful.
What Will the Economy Be When It Grows Up?
If we don’t transition away from growth economics and embrace our Arrival and the agenda of making ourselves at home, the world’s richer countries risk destroying what they already have, while shutting out development in poorer countries.
The Brief Spring of Global Science: How climate science is affected by nationalism and propaganda
Russian science seems to have rejected the current understanding of climate change as seen in the West. Yet, we must keep trying to bridge the gap: if people don’t speak to each other, the only way they have to communicate is to fight.
Public-Common Partnerships: Building New Circuits of Collective Ownership
This report introduces a new institutional framework for a transformative socialist politics: the Public-Common Partnership (PCP).Whilst the era of new public-privat
A Climate-Resilient Los Angeles Must First Address Its Polluted Past
To meet ambitious climate goals, L.A. needs more local water. A critical step is battling the ghosts of industry past — polluted groundwater that dates back to World War II
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
We’re never going to reach net zero emissions in the U.S. by 2030, as the Green New Deal calls for, without a profound change, in fact a revolution, in our food, farming, and land use practices.
A little bit means a lot: Why minute toxins in the environment matter
It used to be a mantra in environmental circles that “the solution to pollution is dilution.” That simply isn’t tenable anymore, and it probably never was.
America is as Hard to Find as Ever: Review
Alcott puts America under a microscope and pulls us close to see all its refracted contradictions — the staggering beauty and the rapacious violence. Her characters, her Americas, are all lost and damaged and so alive you can hear them breath and seethe between her pages.
Tackling Drought in Kenya: Livestock Insurance Policy to Help Pastoralists Beat Climate Change
Incorporating the views of communities that are often at the bottom of the pyramid, and whose voices are rarely heard in sustainability strategies is key to their success. One such inclusive technology in Kenya is the Index-Based Insurance (IBLI), an innovative tool against drought losses in Kenya that seeks to cushion pastoralist communities from the frequent spates of drought…
