Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Take the (Night) Train Redux

My recent trip on the night train from High Point, North Carolina, to NYC.

US and Iran “At Cliff’s Edge”

Patrick Cockburn, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, discusses the situation in Iran with the Real News Network.

Germany to Ban Use of Glyphosate By End 2023

Germany moves to reduce significantly the use of glyphosate – and ban it outright, starting in 2023.

FabScrap Tackles Fashion Waste

FabScrap works with fashion companies to reuse and recycle fashion scraps, thereby mitigating the notorious waste in the fashion industry.

UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder

Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.

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.