Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil

While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.

A European Perspective on Boeing’s 737 MAX Debacle: An “Existential Crisis” for a National Champion

Four existential threats to Boeing: Adverse court judgments, losing insurance retroactively, new competitors, and the end of today’s regulatory regime.

Brexit: Focusing the Mind

What does Johnson’s Brexit gambit portend?

Brexit: Sound and Fury

Even though not much looks to have changed with Brexit, the mere running down of the clock does make a difference.

Waste Watch: Big Fashion Embraces Sustainability? Ha!

Thirty-two fashion companies present the Fashion Pact to G7; the feeble pledges raise the question: why bother?

Trump’s China Trade War Gaslighting: Will There Evah Be a Deal?

Why the US and China are likely to remain at loggerheads.

The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate

This Real News Network interview with Amazon Watch’s Christian Poirier discusses Bolsonaro’s policies that prioritize agribusiness over people – especially indigenous people.

Italy’s Right-Wing Government Collapses – Will the Next One Be Better?

The odd marriage of Lega Nord and Five Star held up longer than expected, but Italy is about to get a new government. How might that work out?

It’s Raining Plastic, From the Pyrenees to the Rockies to the Arctic

On the extent of plastic exposure in the form of microplastics.

Even Larry Summers Denounces World Bank’s “PEF” Ebola Bonds That Enriched Investors at Expense of the Sick in the Congo

The World Bank wants to double down on financial gimmickry rather than develop the public health infrastructure to combat pandemics.

Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?

Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.