Climate Change

By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | – – I’m not sure what Donald Trump thinks the job of president consists of. One task is to swing into action when 3.4 million Americans are living without electricity, 40% of them without potable water, and hundreds of thousands without shelter. When some 80% of its agricultural […]

Climate Change

How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes

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By Levi Gahman and Gabrielle Thongs | (The Conversation) | – – Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on […]

Climate Change

Tweeting while the Planet Burns: Dystopia 2025

Juan Cole

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – It’s January 2025, and within days of entering the Oval Office, a new president already faces his first full-scale crisis abroad. Twenty-four years after it began, the war on terror, from the Philippines to Nigeria, rages on. In 2024 alone, the U.S. launched repeated air […]

Caribbean

Much of U.S.’s Puerto Rico “Destroyed” by 138 mi/hr Storm, Pleads with Trump for Aid

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By TeleSUR | – – Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to declare the island a “disaster” area. Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in almost 90 years, leaving at least nine people dead and causing widespread flooding. The Puerto Rican […]

Denialism

Those 90 Companies that Caused Climate Crisis? They Should Pay for It

Juan Cole

By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | – – The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are on fire. Several blazes are out of control, threatening rural towns, jumping rivers and highways, and covering Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and other cities […]

Climate Change

A Sustainable future depends on Women’s Equality

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H. Patricia Hynes | ( Truthdig ) | – – I am looking at the faces of 10-year-old girls from across the world—faces brimming with expectancy. The U.N. report, “The State of World Population 2016,” opens with their photos, and these words are part of the introduction to Chapter 4, “The Face of the Future”: […]

Climate Change

The Pentagon’s Next War: Extreme Hurricanes & other Climate attacks on US Borders

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hurriedly dispatched to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to face Irma, the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic […]

Climate Change

How solar power can protect US military from threats to the grid

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By Joshua M. Pearce | The Conversation | – – As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at home grows. Many drone flights are piloted by soldiers located in the U.S., even when the drones are flying over Yemen or Iraq […]

Climate Change

AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels

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By Todd Larsen | Otherwords.org | – – One text at a time, America’s largest telecommunications companies are fueling climate change. Smartphones are a huge part of our lives. We use them constantly for texts, social media, calls, directions, and finding information online. Even when we’re sleeping, they’re still active, receiving data all night. But […]