Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
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New Jersey’s “Best in US” Plastic Ban Still Very Limited, Makes Concessions
A new law in New Jersey makes clear how far we have to go on getting rid of plastic.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Plastic Pushers Seek to Use Trade Negotiations to Rescind Plastic Bans
Plastic pushers attempt to strongarm Kenya and the UK into using more plastic under the guise of free trade as world oil prices collapse.
Read more...Will There Be a Second Dust Bowl? And What Happened to the Topsoil From the First One?
A rise in airborne dust over the Great Plains has scientists worried, and rightly.
Read more...With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public
Yet another example otf how the oil industry is subsidized, here by another way it dumps environmental costs on the public at large.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...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?
Read more...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...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...The Problem With California’s Electric Dream
Even with a 15 year runway, California’s electric vehicle plans don’t look achievable.
Read more...Ponds, Beaver Ponds, Arctic and Antarctic Ponds, and Walden Pond
“Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
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...Brazil’s Pantanal Wetland is On Fire, Joining Other Places Where Wildfires Rage or Have Recently Burned Out of Control
Brazil’s Pantanal wetland is burning, joining other rworld egions afflicted with climate change-fueled wildfires.
Read more...Topsoil Degradation, Soil Erosion, and Soil Governance (Global or Otherwise)
How long will it take for the world to run out of topsoil? What will it take to avoid it?
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