Climate Migration Frightens… Climate Poverty Is Frightening!
Taking a stab at how climate change pressures will increase poverty and migration.
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Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
What has New York done to lower its suicide rate?
Read more...The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake
Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.
Read more...To Resolve the Economic & Environmental Crisis, Do Not Bank On the Private Sector
More political leaders are coming around to the idea of using government economic muscle to combat climate change. But will they act?
Read more...No End for Drought as Sydney Disappears Into Smoke
Is toxic haze the new normal for Sydney?
Read more...Coal Is Dead, But China Is Reviving It
Bad climate news: coal is far from over.
Read more...Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer
Emerging economies want large scale subsidies from their richer brethren to pay for them to move to green energy sources.
Read more...J.D Alt: The People’s Money (Part 4)
Why a Green New Deal looks like it will create a money, as in spending, as in inflation problem. Rest assured, there is an answer….
Read more...An Introduction to the State of Energy Storage in the U.S.
A look at energy storage options in connection with wind and solar power is not entirely reassuring.
Read more...Waste Watch: Fashion Rental Services Expand, NYC Tackles Commercial Textile Waste
More retailers join the clothing rental party, but that won’t seriously dent the environmental impact of the fashion industry.
Read more...America’s War Exceptionalism Is Killing the Planet
War is America’s new normal, and it’s deadly.
Read more...Oil and Gas Industry Rebukes Fracking Ban Talk as UN Shows Just How Much Fossil Fuel Plans Are Screwing Climate Limits
American Petroleum Institute steps up lobbying efforts to thwart a fracking ban, notwithstanding the climate crisis.
Read more...Neoliberalism and Climate Change
How economists have contributed to climate change inaction.
Read more...Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck
Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.
Read more...The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
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