(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sahar first told me about moral distance one May morning on a beach in Cadiz. Born in Baghdad, Sahar […]
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To Tackle Climate Change, Hold Fossil Fuel Conglomerates Accountable
By Samantha Garcia | – ( Inequality.org) – Since the Industrial Revolution, the United States has single-handedly accounted for a quarter of all CO2 emissions […]
Wealthy Americans Get Paid Leave. Shouldn’t the Rest?
By Sarah Anderson | – ( Otherwords.org) – The fight to guarantee paid sick time and family leave faces an uphill battle, but advocates aren’t […]
Top 5 Things you need to Know about the Glasgow Climate Pact
By Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin | – The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the […]
Good Climate News: US will increase Solar Power by nearly 50% in 2022, and add 29 Gigawatts of Wind
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Both at COP26 and in the U.S. Congress, a lot of attention is rightly focused on what governments are doing […]
As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions
By Isabel Sutton | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the […]
Top 5 Loopholes left by COP26 for Big Carbon that need to be Closed
By Jeremy Moss | – For the Glasgow climate summit to be judged a success, a key outcome had to be that parties agree the […]
After Unprecedented Wildfires, Turkey finally ratifies the Paris Climate Accord, sets 2053 to Eliminate Carbon Emissions
Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – More than five years after signing it, Turkey has become the final G20 member state to ratify the […]
In Irrational COVID Policy, is there any Difference between Republicans and Iran’s Ayatollahs?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – David Axe at the Daily Beast reports on what he says is very bad news for the US red states […]
Juan Cole’s “Muhammad” is one of Best Five Books on the Prophet Muhammad (Muqtedar Khan Youtube)
Muqtedar Khan is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. His doctoral dissertation at Georgetown University was on Islamic political […]