Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show … Read More

Biden may pull the Amazon back from the tipping point; Hague considers climate crimes at the ICC.

“Until now, Donald Trump served as a support for the Brazilian president to act irresponsibly. Now with the U.S. adding to Europe’s pressure, Brazil is more isolated, and the government … Read More

Australian DNA study finds two new species of Greater Glider, and they're adorable.

The Greater Glider, one of many marsupials that evolved in Australia, is three species and not one as had been previously thought. The findings from a new study mean that … Read More

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'

Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie dust and pseudoscience. Trump continues to see his numbers decline as his campaign put him on … Read More

The whole fu@king world is on fire – in Brazil, fires sweep into the largest wetland on Earth.

‘Mother Earth is angry’. Speaker Nancy Pelosi Earth’s most extensive tropical wetland engulfed in a wildfire since the beginning of January. Still, recently the fires have accelerated due to climate … Read More

Physicists find deforestation has 90% chance of causing irreparable catastrophic societal collapse.

Human consumption and climate change have sent humanity on a steep, dangerous, and deadly spiral spin toward a “catastrophic collapse” warn researchers. The dire warning is published in the scientific journal Nature … Read More

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”

This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is populated by women), decolonizing the … Read More

WYFP? Open Thread: break up Big Meat, cut it off at its base

WYFP = “What’s Your (F*ing) Problem?” x I'm honored that @SenWarren and @SenBooker cited reporting that @estherhonig and I did for @MotherJones in their letter to meatpacking companies. I hope … Read More

#AmericasGreatestMistake can be corrected in 100 days.

Stay the course. Wear a mask. GOTV. Camera. Television. The whole world is watching. x My new video: #AmericasGreatestMistake We need 10,000 retweets in two hours. Please remember you can retweet … Read More

Forests to go the way of coral reefs, unable to keep pace in a warming world.

“We have to be aware that climate change and biodiversity loss are stress factors for ecosystems, for humans, for animals, and for the microbiome. Our research shows that if the … Read More

Climate models suggest global food system crisis at hand; dust bowl scenarios now locked in.

We know from the National Climate Assessment that climate disruptions to agriculture over the past 40 years has increased and, will only worsen as the climate crisis continues to unfold. … Read More

Indonesian oligarchs took advantage of a US law and created a climate calamity of global consequence

“We’ve created a situation that is so contrary to what we had hoped for. We’re doing more harm to the environment. It was a mistake.” Former Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). … Read More

Scorpions migrating from climate change and deforestation, invade urban Brazil.

Sao Paulo is the largest city in the southern hemisphere. It has a population of 11 million and over 20,000,000 when including the people of Sao Paulo’s outskirts. The city … Read More

Republicans set to pass law defining the burning of wood for energy as “carbon neutral”

A new law called the Energy Policy Modernization Act​ is on the fast track to being sent to President Obama to sign into law. Inside this bill is a small … Read More