This new book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why capitalism poses such an extraordinary obstacle to real progress against climate breakdown. Don't miss it. versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
āThe many problems afflicting agriculture and the food system today are fundamentally similar to those afflicting the rest of society. They are just another theater for rentier capitalism, which relies on market/state collusion, extractivism of nature, & systemic precarity for many ordinary people.ā
"What is the ānew climate denialā and how does it impact our response to climate change?" by Ankita Kulkarni for Logically Facts www.logicallyfacts.com/en/analysis/...
Logically Facts takes a deep dive into a new emerging trend among misinformation spreaders to challenge the science around climate change.
Universal Basic Income is not just an economic policy; it's a statement of our values, acknowledging the inherent worth and dignity of every individual in society.
In western Canada, the wildfire āseasonā has become the whole year, as over a hundred fires from 2023 continue to smolder, many of them underground. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Itās an excellent point and illustrates that the people panicking about birth rates really mean white birth rates.
*Florida man shakes fist at ocean* Don't make me extend my axis! The North Atlantic sea surface temperature is now up to an unbelievable 4.34 standard deviations above the recent 1991-2020 baseline climatology. Relative to that, the current anomaly is a 1-in-142,000-year event!
Every time someone tells me some variation of "we have no rights left to dismantle," I am reminded that a lot of people cannot imagine radical alterations to life as they know it or fathom things going from bad to worse. Things are BAD, but worse exists, friends. Believe me, it really does.
Not only are food producers and retailers soaking us with inflated pricing, they are also making us pay more for less. Beware of āshrink-flationā!!! I mean is it too much to ask for the person in the C-suite who made this decisionās head on a pike??? We need new food systems, comrades.
