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Or will rich corporations trash the planet?

For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the most forceful and persuasive voices confronting injustice, inequity, and the threat posed by human-caused climate chaos to civilization and the Earth.

Debate: Green New Deal vs Degrowth, Part 2

Debate: Green New Deal vs Degrowth, Part 2

As retailers encourage holiday shoppers to start early, I’d like to suggest we pause and think about what constitutes enough.

Let’s Not Learn to Love Disaster Countries often focus on disasters within their borders, overlooking floods, fires and storms elsewhere. Scientist Stan Cox suggests that entire economies must be restructured in an opinion essay for Al Jazeera: “Governments and corporations worldwide … have built entire economies that depend on huge energy inputs and ever-expanding consumption, and they cant back out now.” Disasters are not so natural or inevitable, he argues: Poor community, road and d...

Can the Free Market Solve the Climate Emergency? Electric vehicle producers sure want you to think so. In the past year, unprecedented wildfires on the West Coast gave California a seemingly perpetual sepia makeover; the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic quickly outpaced the National Hurricane Center’s ability to name them; and Texas’s entire power grid went down during an extreme winter storm, killing dozens, if not more. All of these events are linked to climate change.  The p...

By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at DownWithTryanny! Let’s take a trip to fantasyland, to a world in which the U.S. addresses climate change in a meaningful way. What does a meaningful response to climate change entail? Among other things, it means enacting the following two policies — energy rationing and conscription — and starting to enact them now. (Both are inevitable, of course, but probably not until after it matters, and not in an orderly way.) Energy Rationing Let’s lo...

7 Min Read (Reuters) - Investors used to brush off Amin Jadavji’s pitch to buy Elevate Farms’ vertical growing technology and produce stacks of leafy greens indoors with artificial light. “They would say, ‘This is great, but it sounds like a science experiment,’” said Jadavji, CEO of Toronto-based Elevate. Now, indoor farms are positioning themselves as one of the solutions to pandemic-induced disruptions to the harvesting, shipping, and sale of food. “It’s helped us change the ...

USA-AGRICULTURE/INDOOR (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV):FOCUS-Investors seed indoor farms as pandemic disrupts food supplies