Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
Apple continues to crapify its products, in ways intended to thwart the ability of their owners to use third party services to repair their devices.
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Example of ‘Unknown Unknowns,’ Study Detailing ‘Almost Instant Mortality of Corals’ Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood
New study published by Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.
Read more...New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.
Read more...Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom
Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.
Read more...Low on Water, California Farmers Turn to Solar Farming
Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.
Read more...Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal
Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.
Read more...Why Consumers Aren’t Buying Electric Cars
Press and affluenza enthusiasm for electric vehicles is ahead of mass consumer appetite.
Read more...Climate Equity: What Is It?
Why the AOC-Kamala Harris climate equity scheme fails as climate and economic policy.
Read more...Carbon Dividends: A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Yves here. Carbon dividends are a way to create support for setting a price for carbon. None other than those starry-eyed granola heads at Financial Times called for setting a price for carbon in 2007. Pigovian taxes (ones meant to discourage activity, like transactions taxes) should typically not be seen as revenue generators, since you […]
Read more...Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
Read more...New Study Predicts Millions of Americans May Become Exposed to “Off the Charts” Heat
Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, as we’ve seen in India, the US, and now Europe.
Read more...The World’s Biggest Lawsuit: Juliana v. United States
“This case gives me hope that we will not continue to cooperate in our own destruction, and future generations will be able to rely on us to uphold the spirit of the law and purpose behind government” –Attorney
Read more...Rising Emissions Are Robbing Us of Nutrients
Yet another reason to combat carbon emissions: More of them = less healthy food.
Read more...‘This Is the Beginning’: New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbug
How rising temperatures helped create superbug C. auris and may turn other fungi lethal.
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