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Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere

Overexploitation and habitat loss pose extinction threats for migratory fish, birds and others, worldwide

Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half – $3.3 trillion – went towards fossil fuel expansion. In 2023, banks financed $705 billion in fossil fuel financing with $347 billion going to fossil fuel expansion alone.

Without a phase out of fossil fuels, by 2100, 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide will be at high risk of total or partial shutdown from extreme weather events — a total of 16,245 hospitals. Without a phase out of fossil fuels, all of these 16,245 hospitals will require adaptation, where suitable. Even with this enormous investment, for many, relocation will be the only option.

The effect of increasing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on global average surface air temperature might be expected to be constant, but this is not the case. A study published in the journal Science shows that carbon dioxide becomes a more potent greenhouse gas as more is released into the atmosphere.

To prevent catastrophe, these countries must stop new extraction projects n: Just 20 countries, led overwhelmingly by the United States, Canada and Russia, are responsible for nearly 90 percent of new greenhouse gas emissions threatened by new oil and gas fields and fracking wells planned between now and 2050. If these extraction projects are allowed to proceed, they will lock in climate chaos and an unlivable future.

Lancet study finds 'green growth' policies fall far short of what's needed to prevent dangerous change…

More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research published in Environmental Research Letters. This would mean cattle farming would face potentially lethal heat stress in much of the world, including Central America, tropical South America, Equatorial Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.

The rapid decline of Earth’s most numerous animals is a major threat to the biosphere

Résumé fr - Alain Vézina - Au cours des 11 700 dernières années, pendant lesquelles la civilisation humaine s'est développée, la Terre a vécu dans ce que les géologues appellent l'époque holocène. Aujourd'hui, la science nous dit que l'époque de l'Holocène s'est achevée sur l'échelle des temps géologiques et qu'elle a été remplacée par une nouvelle époque, plus dangereuse, l'Anthropocène, qui a débuté vers 1950. L'époque de l'Anthropocène se caractérise par une "faille anthropique" dans les cycles biologiques du système terrestre, marquant un changement de réalité dans lequel les activités humaines sont désormais la principale force géologique ayant un impact sur la terre dans son ensemble, générant en même temps une crise existentielle pour la population mondiale. Qu'est-ce qui a provoqué ce changement massif dans l'histoire de la Terre ? Dans cette étude exhaustive, John Bellamy Foster nous apprend qu'un système mondialisé d'accumulation du capital a incité l'humanité à faire son propre ni

Climate-changing pollution reaches record levels, driving unprecedented heating

Corporations and politicians edited the Policy Summary to omit the scientists’ most powerful conclusions

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.

The Anthropocene Working Group has taken a major step towards identifying a “golden spike” location to be used in the formal definition of the Anthropocene. In public meetings held this week, during the Unearthing the Present conference in Berlin, the AWG introduced their Anthropocene short-list — 12 possible candidates for a unique reference location that clearly indicates the beginning of the new epoch.

Capitalism isn’t what it used to be. Since 2008, critics of the world’s dominant economic system have been lamenting its imperviousness to change. And for good reason. In earlier epochs, financial crises and pandemics wrought economic transformation. In our own, they seem to have yielded more of the same. Before the 2008 crash, global capitalism was characterized by organized labor’s weakness, rising inequality within nations, and a growth model that offset mediocre wage gains with asset-price appreciation. All of these have remained features of the world’s economic order.

Al Gore shares examples of extreme climate events (think: fires, floods and atmospheric tsunamis), identifies the man-made systems holding us back from progress and invites us all to join the movement for climate justice: "the biggest emergent social movement in all of history," as he puts it. An unmissable tour de force on the current state of the crisis -- and the transformations that will make it possible to find a way out of it.

George Monbiot. George delves deep into the invisible ideologies trashing our planet. In this video George talks in depth about capitalism, consumerism and neo-liberalism.

There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such as winter, they invest great resources into avoiding or withstanding it: migrating or hibernating, for example. Humans are a different matter.