Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán (Bolivia) Translated by: Mark Cramer (Paris) These days I am immersed in rage, pain and despair. The Amazon is in flames, the Chiquitanía is gravely wounded and beneath the fires, many of our hopes●●●
We know who’s responsible for the climate crisis: rich people. Nowhere is this clearer than in aviation, with billionaires’ private jets ravaging the planet. We need to ban them now.
Rethinking Climate Politics in the Vernacular, by Ariel Salleh
Categorised in: The Water Paradigm and a new way forward Published: 8 Jun 2019 Given the impasse in climate politics, maybe it is time to reframe the problem and start again. One way of doing this is …
Nearly half a century after the Clean Air Act instituted the world’s most stringent emissions controls, the problem of air pollution is far from being solved in the US or anywhere else. Pollution has proved much more persistent, and exposure to it much more damaging, than anyone expected. Today, 91 percent of people worldwide live in areas where air pollution levels exceed the World Health Organization’s recommended limits. The result is a global health emergency, as three new books reveal in sobering detail.