Tag: climate
-
The world has veered way off-target of its climate goals. Can we rebound?
The 1.5 degrees C target was originally set by a landmark, legally binding international agreement back in 2015, at the Paris meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Paris Agreement aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and hold the planetary temperature rise…
-
The left needs better answers for scared people
These are insecure times. My relatives in Tehran are bracing for bombs to fall again. Fighter planes screamed through the skies here in Athens a few weeks back — it was an airshow, technically, but it didn’t feel like one. War talk is on TV panels every night; algorithms serve images of conflict straight to my…
-
How an Exxon CEO’s legacy of climate denial and misinfo outlives him – and ways a psychologist offers to counter it
Raymond, Exxon’s CEO from 1993 through 2005, including after its 1999 merger with Mobil, made these claims despite mounting global evidence that burning fossil fuels was driving climate change. Exxon’s own scientists had produced some of the most accurate early models of human-caused climate change years earlier, showing how greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil…
-
10 reasons to resist “AI”
if the slog toward an AI dystopia is halted or even slowed, Big Tech’s investments could spectacularly backfire, forcing companies to fold. It’s time to go all-in on AI resistance.
-
Scientists have scrapped the worst‑case climate scenario – because action is making a difference
The job is far from done. Emissions are at record highs and global warming is speeding up. But the removal of this high-emissions scenario isn’t, as Trump and other climate sceptics have claimed, a sign of failed modelling, or that climate change was a hoax. It’s a sign the expansion of solar, wind, electric vehicles…
-
On Contesting Populism
Cultural similarities such as nationality, dress, composure, vocabulary, and music override income, employment, health, education, and physical safety as the basis for coming together. Populist movements are therefore always cross-class endeavors. On the radical left, our small-scale populism has us hemmed in with little to no presence beyond university campuses and subcultural radical scenes (punk,…
-
There is huge potential to generate clean geothermal power – including from used oil and gas wells
Building geothermal power stations does require significant investment, but its ability to deliver energy over the long term can offset many of these costs. Projects like those undertaken by Fervo Energy show that government subsidies are no longer necessary for a project to get funded, built and begin generating energy.
-
Too Hot to Learn: Cooling Argentina’s Overheating Schools
In many countries, schools are seeking other solutions due to the purchase and operating costs of AC, combined with an electrical grid that cannot handle demand from these devices and suddenly shuts down. There are ways to reduce dependence on AC: changing the buildings, and changing the cities they exist in. But these are not…
-
Inside the Indigenous ‘land back’ movement in Colombia
It is common for Indigenous land defenders opposing the interests of armed groups and the extractive sector on their territories to be targeted for harassment or assassination. Colombia is the deadliest country in the world for land and environmental defenders, accounting for 40 percent of killings globally in 2023. Nearly half of the victims were Indigenous…
-
US-Trained Military in Uganda Targets Oil Pipeline Protesters
Police and soldiers from Uganda’s U.S.-trained army cracked down on demonstrators at two Monday protests against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, continuing the globally condemned oppression of EACOP opponents.
MASSolidarity.org 