by Mira Oklobdzija | Dec 12, 2022 | Human Rights
Most people, openly or otherwise, approve of the borders that prevent foreign elements from entering their comfort zones. At the same time, they dislike frontiers which prevent them from reaching, as quickly as possible, nice locations they want to visit. In November,...
by John Feffer | Nov 30, 2022 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition
To keep the planet from overheating, there’s just so much more carbon that humans can pump into the atmosphere. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution until today, humanity has used up approximately 83 percent of its “carbon budget”—the amount of carbon the...
by Michael Klare | Nov 29, 2022 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition
As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” relations between their two countries were on a hair-raising downward spiral, with tensions over Taiwan nearing the boiling...
by Tom Athanasiou | Nov 28, 2022 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition
There is something in the modern radical mind that wants the climate negotiations to fail. Such a failure, after all, would seem to prove that this wretched system cannot be reformed, that only a revolutionary break can save humanity’s future. COP27, the climate...
by Edward Hunt | Nov 15, 2022 | Environment, War & Peace
The leaders of the United States are prioritizing great power competition with China and Russia at a time when much of the world is demanding that the world’s great powers cooperate to address the climate crisis. Officials in Washington recently confirmed that they...