We Should Not Take Sides
“To be an Enemy of America is Dangerous but to be a Friend is Fatal.” This is another reason why the United States should sign UNCLOS and not act unilaterally to permit deep sea mining in areas beyond International jurisdiction. China now points to the US as a rouge state. By Bas Umali No question […]
Pollution From Mostly Unregulated Commercial Space Activities
By Bob Berwyn / Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News (hyperlink to the original story), a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. What Goes Up Must Come Down New research published Thursday bolsters growing concerns that a handful of companies and countries are […]
CFC Replacements Cause Vast ‘forever chemical’ Pollution
CFC replacements cause vast ‘forever chemical’ pollution – new research Lucy Hart, Lancaster University and Ryan Hossaini, Lancaster University When the phaseout of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was first agreed in 1987, the world narrowly avoided an environmental catastrophe. However, the replacement of CFCs is causing the pollution of the Earth’s surface with a “forever chemical” that […]
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America’s largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets […]
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Talking The Wrong Way About Carbon
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, […]
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2021). https://www.brightgreenlies.com By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic Axis of Logic exclusive Monday, Aug 30, 2021 “What do you know about this mendacity thing? Hell! I could write a book on it! Don’t you know that? I could write a book on […]
Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless urgent conservation action is taken, according to a new study. In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers assessed 1,294 species of amphibians, reptiles, […]
Filipino Communities Use Vast Variety of Endemic Plants
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in the leaves, roots and vines that grow wild around his community. Taught by his father, who learned from the elders before […]
Greater Equality Is Better for the Planet
Editor’s note: Wealth inequality is higher in the Empire than in almost any other “developed” country and has risen for much of the past 60 years. The Black-white wealth gap reflects a society that has not, does not and will not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens, a difference in power and opportunity that can be traced […]