Plastics Use in Farming Threatens Food Safety and Human Health, FAO Warns
The UN’s FAO publishes first effort report on how the use of plastics in farming erodes the health of soils, threatening food safety and human health.
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Just Say No: IKEA to Phase Out Plastic Packaging By 2028
IKEA pledges to phase out plastics packaging; federal and state lawmakers should impose a similar bank on all U.S. companies
Read more...Why Has the Press Ignored Retailers’ Crappy Black Fridays, as Experts Warn of Coming Bankruptcies?
The retail sector is staring to flash “Watch out below” warnings. How many store chains will be forced to retrench?
Read more...Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties
The United States has not lived up to its legal and moral commitments or its own stated policies to protect civilian lives.
Read more...Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction
Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.
Read more...Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26
Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.
Read more...Fifty Coral Reefs Selected as ‘Arks’ to Survive Climate Crisis
Australian scientists employ modern portfolio theory to target conservation priorities and generate a list of fifty priority coral reefs.
Read more...The Campaign to Protect Christmas Profits from Omicron
Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
Read more...The NRA Could Be Winning Its Long Gun Game Even as It Appears To Be in Dire Straits
The NRA may have done its job. Gun support may not longer depend on its aggressive lobbying.
Read more...Probable Vaccine-Escaping Covid Variant Sequenced in Gauteng, South Africa and Spreading Rapidly; Press Underplaying Downside Risk
A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position.
Read more...Gerrymandering Is a Climate Problem
How the upcoming round of gerrymandering is likely to impact climate change remediation campaigns.
Read more...Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out
How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.
Read more...The Costs of War (to You)
An overview not merely of the egregious spending on America’s wars, but also on how it is fraud-friendly, apparently by design.
Read more...Goodbye Glasgow: What’s Next for Global Climate Action?
After COP26, and as the debate on whether Glasgow represents a success or a failure dies down, what next for global climate action?
Read more...Why the UK (and US) Left Is Wrong To Be So Dismissive of Non-Violent Struggle
Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
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