Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?
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Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.
Read more...Pandemics and Inequality
Pandemics have a long tail, including their impact on inequality.
Read more...Top Law Firms Called Out for Serving Fossil Fuel Industry Clients in New Climate ‘Scorecard’
Law students call out leading law firms for facilitating policies that promote fossil fuel clients and exacerbate climate change.
Read more...Why Don’t We Study Countries That Have Had COVID-19 Success?
Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and New Zealand have recorded low COVID-19 deaths. Why do we hear so little about the reeasons for their success?
Read more...How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts
Some past pandemics ushered in massive changes….but only with massive death levels. So can the powers that be rest easy with Covid?
Read more...Brexit: Confrontation
The Brexit process is as ugly as ever.
Read more...Why Americans Need Debt Jubilees, Helicopter Money, and 21st-Century Greenbacks: A 45-minute Conversation with Richard Vague
Richard Vague, who has studied financial crises, has honed in on the destructive impact of private debt and the need for debt jubilees.
Read more...Election Violence in November? Here’s What the Research Says
Why worries about violence and worse, fascism come the fall are largely suburban pearl-clutching as opposed to well-founded fears.
Read more...Looking for the Private Equity Lending Train Wreck in All the Wrong Places?
How immient is a bust in private equity related debt?
Read more...Continued Tight UK Self-Isolation Rules Continue to Hammer Tourism Sector
UK government unlikely to relax 14-day self-isolation requirement for returning travelers while COVID-19 infections constinue to spike.
Read more...NYT Report: 9 of Every 10 Restaurants and Bars in N.Y.C. Can’t Pay Full Rent
While the NYT reports 9 out of 10 bars and resturants cannot make full rent, the city dithers about real solutions to eliminitaig evictions.
Read more...Recycling Isn’t Enough to Tackle the World’s Worsening Plastic Pollution Crisis
Finally the message may be getting through. The recycling fairy alone won’t save us from the plastics crisis. We must confront the pushers.
Read more...Oil Industry’s Shift to Plastics in Question as Report Warns $400 Billion in Stranded Assets Possible
By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications.Originally published at DeSmogBlog. Off Africa’s eastern coast, north of Madagascar, lies Aldabra Atoll, a cluster of coral islands that surround a […]
Read more...Coronavirus Economic Distress Hitting Indebted Professionals
Coronavirus damage is working its way up the economic food chain and is now hitting professionals in a meaninful way.
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