By Don Fitz, Green Social Thought
For the first time, life expectancy in Cuba exceeds that in the US by almost three years. The reasons include responses to Covid, health care systems, racism, poverty, misinformation campaigns, the embargo, international solidarity efforts, and resilience to climate change.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Many in contemporary global society unconsciously act to create more complexity, thinking it will solve whatever problem presents itself. That very complexity is now giving us negative returns. More of it will almost certainly make matters worse.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The COVID-19 pandemic is sending the human species important messages. But are we as a species capable of hearing them?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The Biden administration is about to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all U.S. visitors. The plan is likely to become unworkable in very short order. It is an attempt to get around a now very clear fact about widespread international travel: That travel has become a threat to all humankind.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The debate over COVID's origin poses vexing questions about potential catastrophic ruin for human society that include the dangers of the genetic manipulation of food crops.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The dense worldwide transportation network constructed by humans is now powering so-called variants (mutations) of COVID-19 across the world from their countries of origin. The British variant (called B.1.1.7), the Brazilian variant (called P.1) and the South African variant (called B.1.351) are all racing across the globe.