Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?

Devastating footage of Dorian damage in the Bahamas: when will the world take meaningful action to arrest climate change?

Brexit: Thar She Blows

Does Parliament’s revolt agaist Boris Johnson on Brexit amount to progress?

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.