Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all? Carol Linnitt met climate campaigner George Marshall, who thinks he is finally asking the right questions.
… past." Marshall said a lot of other climate psychology or theories of climate denial …
This day in 1945, the explosion of a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, changed the world forever, writes Daniel Cordle. A remarkable article in the New Yorker by John Hersey has shaped the way the world perceives the event, and nuclear weapons generally, by illuminating the humanity of its victims in clear, simple prose.
Hiroshima: the 'blinding flash' that changed the world forever Daniel Cordle | 6th August 2015 Reviews War Nuclear Health Society Books hiroshima_girl-cut.jpg This day in 1945, the explosion of a …
Although arguably reductive in its initial analysis, Fleeing Vesuvius is a refreshingly uncompromising critique on almost every aspect of current global trends
… community organisation, energy, architecture, psychology and all the nooks in between, it is …
The neoliberal model of 'development' is ravaging nature and pitting communities and eco-defenders against powerful corporations and colluding police and military forces. The violence must stop!
To defend the environment, we must defend human rights Friends of the Earth International | 10th June 2014 Comment Corporations Development Human Rights san-jose-del-golfo-cut.jpg The neoliberal …
So just how serious is the impact of industrial farming? Worse than you could ever imagine, writes organic farmer Julian Rose in this review of 'Farmageddon - the Real Price of Cheap Food', which lifts the lid on the industry's human and ecological devastation, and the systematic cruelty inflicted on the animals that feed us.
Farmageddon - the true cost of cheap meat Julian Rose | 5th February 2015 Reviews Food Farming Fishing Corporations farmageddon-cover.png So just how serious is the impact of industrial farming? …
Big conservation NGOs increasingly resemble the nature-destroying corporations they should be opposing, writes Margi Prideaux. This ideological capture is reflected in their vapid marketing to conservation 'consumers'; the serious abuse of indigenous communities they should be engaging as partners; and their willing sacrifice of core objectives to money and influence.
Corporate capture: Big Conservation must break out of its Stockholm syndrome Dr Margi Prideaux | 2nd September 2016 Comment Conservation Corporations Indigenous Peoples baka-cut.jpg Big conservation …
Naomi Klein finds kernels of hope amid the closely linked perils of climate change and untamed capitalism, writes Mike Berners-Lee. Ultimately it's down to us, the people, to come together and force the changes we need - but Klein's new book provides some valuable and timely inspiration.
… shortcomings. There is good focus on the psychology of denial, which is probably the …
The GMO industry has legitimised itself via a vast network of lobbyists and the assiduous capture of the politicians, regulators and scientists that should be holding it to account, writes Colin Todhunter. But as the failure of the GM revolution and its disastrous impacts become ever more evident, the industry's legitimacy is fast eroding away.
… scientists have every right to speak on psychology, politics and democracy. However, …
As the global assault on indigenous lands intensifies, the world's largest conservation group, the IUCN, has just voted at its World Conservation Congress for the sacred natural sites and territories of indigenous peoples to be recognised as 'No-Go Areas' for destructive industrial scale activities, writes Hal Rhoades - and for corporations to permanently withdraw from such areas.
World Conservation Congress votes to protect indigenous sacred lands Hal Rhoades | 13th September 2016 News Conservation Indigenous Peoples Corporations chief-cut.jpg As the global assault on …
German dairy farmer Gottfried Glöckner told F William Engdahl how the Anglo-Swiss GMO and agrochemicals giant Syngenta tried to crush him after he denounced the company's products as toxic - recruiting the resources of the German state and legal system to destroy his life.
Gottfried Glöckner - 'how Syngenta destroyed my life for telling the truth about GMOs' F William Engdahl | 2nd June 2014 Comment GMOs Corporations Germany Farming de-gottfried-cut.jpg German dairy …
In a hard-hitting new investigation, Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway report on the scientists prepared to distort the truth on the key issues of our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations
Merchants of Doubt Phil England | 10th September 2010 Reviews Science Climate Change Tobacco Reviews Science And Technology Greenpeace Corporations merchants-of-doubt-dust-cover-2010.jpg In a …
Tyrone Hayes has fought a 15-year battle with Syngenta following his discovery that its herbicide Atrazine scrambles sex in frogs, writes F William Engdahl. Now he wants to know - is Atrazine the cause of the US's 2-fold reproductive cancer excess among Blacks and Hispanics?
Atrazine: Syngenta's herbicide doesn't just poison frogs - it could give you cancer F William Engdahl | 2nd June 2014 News Health Farming Toxics Corporations Regulation USA …
Supported by state and national governments, palm oil plantations are advancing over the rainforest hills of Sabah, Malaysia, writes Sophie Chao. In their way: the indigenous Murut of Bigor, whose culture, livelihood and very lives are under threat as forests and farms fall to chainsaws and bulldozers, enriching loggers and distant investors beyond the dreams of avarice.
Malaysia: the Murut struggle against palm oil, for land and life Sophie Chao | 12th December 2016 Activism Malaysia Palm Oil Corporations Farming Indigenous Peoples Human Rights bigor …
Greenland's first female prime minister is on a modernising drive to prosperity and independence, But will the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring wealth or destruction?
Sailing full steam into treacherous waters The Ecologist | 17th March 2014 Comment Greenland Indigenous Peoples Europe Mining Corporations aleqa-hammond.png Oil drums dumped at a former US air force …
The global pesticide and bioscience giant Monsanto is a byword for evil for millions of campaigners and concerned citizens, writes JP Sottile. But that has never stopped it getting its way with the people that matter - politicians and regulators. And now the company is on the verge of biggest victory ever - winning clearance to spray biologically active RNA sequences on US crops.
While we all fixate on glyphosate, Monsanto prepares its next GM trick: RNA pesticides JP Sottile | 11th April 2016 News Corporations Farming Toxics Health Regulation USA Law Politics …