Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining - The New York Times
The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope.
Swiss women win landmark climate case in European human rights court | AP News
Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese students aimed at forcing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Life in a 'degrowth' economy, and why you might actually enjoy it
What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy…