Gigantismo imperial y decadencia del planeta Tierra Se extendía desde el Caspio al Mar Báltico, desde el centro de Europa a las Islas Kuriles en el Pacífico, de Siberia a Asia Central. Su arsenal nuclear incluía 45.000 ojivas y sus fuerzas armadas tenían cinco millones de soldados bajo las armas. No había existido nada parecido en [...]

El movimiento que demanda que las instituciones de interés público desinviertan en combustibles fósiles está en plena actividad. La última vez que las contaron había campañas activas de desinversión en 305 campus en más de 100 ciudades estadunidenses. La demanda también llegó a Canadá, Australia, Holanda y Gran Bretaña.

Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia.  Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under arms.  There had been nothing like it in Eurasia since [...]

De cómo la escasez de recursos y el cambio climático podrían producir una explosión global Prepárense. Puede que aún no se lo digan, pero, según los expertos de todo el mundo y la comunidad de la inteligencia estadounidense, la tierra está cambiando ya bajo sus pies. Lo sepan o no, Vds. están sobre un planeta diferente, [...]

Some mainstream environmental organizations are trying to wean themselves from fossil fuel investments—but some aren’t. The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. At last count, there were active divestment campaigns on 305 campuses and in more than 100 US cities and states. The demand has [...]

How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you.  Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort [...]

On this Earth Day, those of us fighting for climate justice and an end to the world’s fossil fuel domination should take heart from the struggle against slavery. Imagine for a moment that it is 1858 and you are an abolitionist. Talk about discouragement: The previous year, in its Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

Fossil fuel companies’ bet that climate agreements won’t stop them from burning carbon puts pension funds at risk     Suppose you weren’t worried that we humans are destroying our water supply and eroding our ability to feed ourselves by burning coal and gas and oil and hence changing climate. Suppose you thought that was all liberal hooey. [...]

Hay capitalismo y luego el verdadero capitalismo existente. El término capitalismo se usa comúnmente para referirse al sistema económico de Estados Unidos con intervención sustancial del Estado, que va de subsidios para innovación creativa a la póliza de seguro gubernamental para bancos demasiado-grande-para-fracasar.

Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively — the movement to stop climate change has come together. This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people gathered by the Washington Monument and then marched past the White House, demanding that President Obama block the Keystone XL pipeline and move forward [...]