NEWS
Road Network Spreads Destruction Across Amazon
Editor's note: Roads in the middle of wildlife, both illegal and legal, cause habitat fragmentation. This, in turn, impacts wildlife. They disturb migration routes of many animals. Many die in roadkill. Some are more likely to be killed than others, affecting the...
Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Leaders Demand Climate and Racial Justice
More than 50 indigenous and Afro-descendant representatives of the Black and Indigenous Liberation Movement (BILM) call on the States of the Americas to address climate change from a differentiated, non-discriminatory justice perspective that addresses historical...
Approval of Deep Sea Mining Test Despite Concerns
Editor's Note: Deep sea mining is being pursued on the pretext of a transition towards a "cleaner" source of energy. This transition is being hailed as "the solution" to all environmental problems by the majority of the environmental movement. The irony of "the...
ACTION
How to Build a Coalition
Editor's note: The ability to work with others who we may disagree is fundamental to organizing in a socially fractured, multi-polar world. But doing so is difficult, distasteful, and increasingly rare in our filter-bubble modern experience, where people we disagree...
To the Activists of the World: Thank You
By Max Wilbert We are living in an ecological catastrophe. Our world is being killed before our eyes. This hurts. And so for many people, their response is either apathy, complete emotional shutdown, or a nihilistic embrace of powerlessness. There is another option....
I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too.
Editor's note: Luddism is often dismissed as "backwardness," but it is actually a more advanced, considered, and wise position on technology. To be a Luddite is to stand with workers and the natural world against the death march of technology. This essay is a general...
ANALYSIS
Subsistence Communities: Destroyers or Protectors of Forests?
Editor's Note: The following Mongabay article is based on a recent study that found that marginalized subsistence communities are driving deforestation due to poverty. The article also writes that deforestation caused by these communities cannot still be compared to...
Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Pacific
Editor's note: The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami, was one of the worst nuclear accidents of the twenty-first century to date. Nevertheless, worse ones might come in the future. In the quest for energy to fuel the machine,...
Renewable Energy Isn’t Replacing Fossil Fuel Energy
Editor's note: It is true that wind and heat from the sun are renewable but the devices used to capture that energy are not. Creating such devices only adds on to a non-existing carbon budget. Richard Heinberg, the author of the following article, is an advocate for...
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