Tom Engelhardt: Resurrecting My Parents From the Dead for Election 2016
Creating a National Security State “Democracy” Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed To say that this is the election from hell is to insult hell. … Continue reading
Video: Natural Playground
Here’s the upside to global warming. . Directed and Performed by Ben Leclair Co-produced by Kevin Calvez Filmed by Blackbird productions & Ian Curry . Ben LeClair . . Email … Continue reading
Deirdre Fulton: The Anthropocene Is Here
Humanity has pushed Earth Into a new epoch which began in the 1950s when human activity set global systems on a different trajectory. The Anthropocene Epoch has begun, according to a … Continue reading
George Monbiot: The Purse is Mightier than the Pen
The climate crisis is here now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know. What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: We are now in a Brexit World
Here’s an unavoidable fact: we are now in a Brexit world. We are seeing the first signs of a major fragmentation of this planet that, until recently, the cognoscenti were … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: The Doomsday Clock
Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival [This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] In January 2015, the Bulletin of … Continue reading
Nadia Prupis: ‘Warning for the World’ — Five Pacific Islands Officially Lost to Rising Seas
The event is the first official confirmation of what the future could be under climate change, researchers say. Five Pacific Islands have been swallowed by rising seas and coastal erosion, … Continue reading
Tim Radford: Expect higher ozone and extreme weather, scientists say
According to a new report in Nature, scientists are warning that the current pleasures of warmer weather will pall for US citizens as climate change brings extreme temperature rises and … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: Turning Point in Climate Fight as AGs Unite to Target Exxon Crimes
In a move many are hailing as a “turning point” in the climate fight, 20 state Attorneys General on Tuesday launched an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute the … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: NASA Drops Major Bomb in ‘March Toward Ever-Warmer Planet’
NASA this weekend released new data which shows that February 2016 was not only the hottest in recorded history, but it soared past all previous records, prompting scientists to describe … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Apocalyptic Capitalism
The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than … Continue reading
Michael T. Klare: Welcome to a New Planet
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: Are you ready to choose the last generation?
We love our kids, of course. And every grandparent can’t help but fall in love with their grandkids. Certainly most of us will love our great grandkids, if we live … Continue reading
William deBuys: Entering the Mega-Drought Era in America
California — As Both Climate Victim and Responder, the National Style-Setter Leads the Way Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight … Continue reading
