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Securing support from Absa to grow our unit, Our Burning Planet, means striking out with a new chapter – one that acknowledges global change, rather than just climate change, as the greatest challenge facing the community of life.
As Daily Maverick’s Our Burning Planet unit expands its global change reportage, we reflect on some of our biggest moments. Each has served as much of a wake-up call as it has helped sway, even predict, the course of humans’ often-dodgy exploitation of this small blue planet.
weekly newspaper. Recreational users of the Mother City’s most famous landmark have demanded answers to questions about a deluge of surplus revenue that has left the reserve, apparently buckling under a mountain of problems. Proclaimed in 1998 to conserve the iconic fynbos biome, and run by government entity SANParks (South African National Parks), Table Mountain National Park in 2018/19 earned about R308-million. Key expense items – says environment minister Barbara Creecy’s November 2019 reply to a parliamentary question by the Democratic Alliance – were only R123-million, in...
The Covid-19 pandemic — in little more than a year — has transformed the world in ways perhaps once imagined only by sci-fi writers, exposing thorny issues of climate injustices between continents at odds with each other for centuries. Even as US president Joe Biden’s recent election has refreshed hopes of achieving a liveable world into the long-term future, the uneven global vaccine roll-out has thrown into the spotlight the inequalities arising out of natural disasters in the Anthropocene. In an Our Burning Planet webinar on Thursday, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, A...
As we face the realities of the climate crisis, the effects of which increase daily, the future looks bleak. Youth from all over the world are uncertain, we are scared of what our futures hold. Even scarier is the not-so-ridiculous possibility that we won’t have a future at all. However, the greatest horror is how world leaders have reacted to the climate crisis. The science is clear and the facts are available in abundance. Their ignorance and apathy is deliberate. In January 2020, my matric year, I began to boycott school every Friday, demanding that the South African government and the D...