Stay updated with breaking news from Patrick Bigger. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The global military is under pressure to rapidly reduce its own outsized carbon 'bootprint' to help limit global heating — and future climate conflict.
While Bitcoin Energy Concerns Grow, Nobody Discusses the Carbon and Military Violence Backing US Dollars This week a great number of bitcoin supporters and skeptics have been arguing over whether or not bitcoin mining is harmful to the global environment. However, crypto supporters have been saying that concerns over the Bitcoin network’s energy supply are absurd, in contrast to the carbon used and the military violence that backs a number of fiat currencies including the U.S. dollar. One could even go as far as to say that the American dollar alone has left boot prints o...
E-Mail IMAGE: Conservation efforts in Kenya, and around the world, have been hindered by structural economic processes such as debt and austerity, further contributing to the decline of species such as rhinos view more Credit: Patrick Bigger, Lancaster University New research examining the major causes of the world's biodiversity loss calls for an urgent and profound re-organisation of the global post-pandemic economy to prevent further planetary harm. Existing trade rules, economic policies, debt loads, subsidies, and tax loopholes, as well as a long-standing failure by rich coun...
Conservation efforts in Kenya, and around the world, have been hindered by structural economic processes such as debt and austerity, further contributing to the decline of species such as rhinosNew research examining the major causes of the world’s b
● Road transport, aircraft and ship traffic and production of means of transport, ● industrial agriculture, ● Storage and distribution of data. Any real green transformation of society to stop greenhouse gas emissions must therefore start by looking critically at these sectors and cutting back on production, transport, and waste. But on the contrary, the EU Commission writes in their presentation of the "Green Deal: "Energy-intensive industries such as steel, chemicals and cement are indispensable to Europe’s economy because they supply several key value chains.” Quote from Ursula...