NEWS
How Corrupt Governments Use The Law to Punish Environmentalists
Editor's note: Monday's article covered the murder of environmentalists—at least 207 were killed last year. These killings are the extreme end of a spectrum of violence and repression used against environmentalists and land defenders. Another weapon on that spectrum...
207 Environmentalists Were Murdered in 2021
Editor's note: This article is a call for courage in the face of adversity, apathy, and violence. Two hundred and seven environmentalists were murdered last year—at least. Each fallen land defender is a hero. To save the planet, we must be willing to take risks and...
Banning Abortion is Banning Sustainability
In the United States, the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old legal precedent that ruled state-level abortion bans are (in many situations) unconstitutional and violate the rights of pregnant women. Since 1973, legal challenges to Roe...
ACTION
BC First Nations standing firm against Enbridge pipeline threat
By Shawn McCarthy / The Globe and Mail Ottawa is headed for a legal showdown with British Columbia first nations if it insists on proceeding with the Northern Gateway pipeline, the leader of the Yinka Dene Alliance warns. Chief Jackie Thomas, of the Saik'uz First...
Anti-Fracking Campaigners: We Won’t Be Silenced
By Josh Fox Anti-Fracking Campaigners: We Won’t Be Silenced Gasland was intended to be both a chronicle of the way in which oil and gas companies have used vast sums of money to shield fracking from virtually all federal, state, and local regulations and a cautionary...
ANALYSIS
Will Civilization Collapse Because It’s Running Out of Oil?
Editor's note: Oil has been called the "master resource" of industrial civilization, because it facilitates almost every other economic activity and subsidizes almost every other form of extraction. Chainsaws, for example, run on gasoline; tractors run on diesel fuel;...
Even Common Species Are Experiencing Population Crashes
By Max Wilbert Yesterday I met this juvenile red-shafted Northern Flicker in the high desert of Oregon. Flickers are common, but like all life on Earth, they are in danger. Bird populations around the world are collapsing. Even "common" species like the American Robin...
An Ecological Basis for the Right to Abortion
By Will Falk (I recognize that I am a man. I will never confront a decision about abortion. I am not trying to tell women what to do with the following. I am, however, humbly trying to offer an argument for enforcing women’s rights to full reproductive freedom that is...
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