Wednesday, 11 December , 2024

CO2

Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher

New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned...

The dark side of the Nordic model

Scandinavian countries may top every ranking on human development, but they are a disaster for the environment. by Jason Hickel 6 Dec 2019 Scandinavians have it all....

Biosphere Collapse?

by Robert Hunziker December 19, 2019 Five years ago: Nations of the world met in Paris to draft a climate agreement that was subsequently accepted by...

Fossil-fuel emissions in 2018 increasing at fastest rate for seven years

By Zeke Hausfather 5 December 2018 Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from...

Yellow Vests Rise Against Neo-Liberal ‘King’ Macron

For centuries, the “left” hoped popular movements would lead to changes for the better. Today, many leftists seem terrified of popular movements for change,...

Two Minutes to Doomsday

by Robert Hunziker January 30, 2018 Not since 1953, when the U.S. and the Soviets exploded thermonuclear bombs, has the world been such a powder keg! Only...

Committing Geocide: Climate Change And Corporate Capture By Susan George

I am not here to promote the deep ecology view. I am here rather to introduce and define what I see as a new phenomenon in the history of humankind. I call it Geocide. Geocide is the collective action of a single species among millions of other species which is changing planet Earth to the point that it can become unrecognisable and unfit for life. This species is committing geocide against all components of nature, whether microscopic organisms, plants, animals or against itself, homo sapiens, humankind.