International Appeal: There are 26,740 signatories as of December 4, 2018 To the UN, WHO, EU, Council of Europe and governments of all nations We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens from (__) countries,…
Category: Environment
Afghanistan’s opium economy is a multibillion dollar operation which has a direct impact on the surge of heroin addiction in the US. Despite president Trump’s announced US troop withdrawal, the Afghan opium trade continues to…
The later part of Hersh’s career is the most distressing. He was writing for The New Yorker when Barack Obama was elected president. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, socialized with Obama and was apparently wary…
New York Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was ruthlessly attacked recently, and I feel a bit responsible. I might have accidentally tainted her Twitter feed with truth serum. But that sounds weird—so let me back up. A…
How does the West get away with its pretense of being an alliance of great democracies in which government is the servant of the people? Nowhere in the West, except possibly Hungary and Austria, does…
An ambitious project to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has hit an unexpected snag, just three months after being launched. Developed by The Ocean Cleanup, the huge floating contraption was designed to drift with…
Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change…
Have you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate. Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated…
A new US government report delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars — or, in the worst-case scenario, more than 10% of its…
We all have that one friend who uses localised weather, particularly cold snaps, as evidence climate change isn’t happening. This week, that friend was President Donald Trump. He took to Twitter to ask “whatever happened…
