The Aukus deal is a crime against the world’s climate future. It didn’t have to be like this | Jeff Sparrow
Under the terms of the government’s nuclear submarine purchase, the first Australian-built Aukus class vessels come into service in the early 2040s. What else might be happening then? According to the IPCC, at current rates, the planet will have warmed…
Weathering the storm: How Japan is factoring climate change into defense policy – The Japan Times
Storm surges, flooding, more powerful typhoons and scorching temperatures — climate change will bring more of all to Japan, endangering military sites, personnel and gear, but also putting Tokyo and the Indo-Pacific at greater risk of geopolitical shocks. The intensifying…
ABC staff to walk off job next week – as it happened
From 7h ago The move comes after union members rejected a revised offer from management. The Community and Public Sector Union and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance held meetings on Wednesday and resolved that the sticking point is inadequate…
My Cyclone Diary: after the flood, the dread that replaces panic
It is difficult to record historical events that will in time determine policy decisions and economic outcomes, and the lives of those affected, while events are still unfolding. There are the quick impressions – men wrestling escaped bees on a…
Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti, Now Climate Change Compounds It – Truthout
As the planet faces more climate-driven disasters, we must prioritize the safety and wellbeing of populations most vulnerable to their effects. Extreme heat, droughts, floods and storms are becoming more frequent and intense worldwide while human industry, resource extraction, consumption…
Biden’s Crackdown On Fossil Fuels Is Courting A National Security Disaster
The capacity of a modern economy to produce food and products for its citizens, and weapons and fuels for its military to project power, are the undeniable twin pillars of global power. Both depend on reasonably priced and readily available…
Biden Envoy John Kerry: US-China Tensions Impeding Climate Talks
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry says tensions between the United States and China are hurting the talks he was having on the climate. Kerry, who holds a cabinet-level position in the Biden administration — that did require a Senate confirmation…
Climate change poses ‘long-term’ threat to Canada’s security, spy agency warns – Global News
Canada’s spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels. A newly released analysis by the…
‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters, from the 2008 crash to Covid
‘Thinking I could have stopped it is something I have to deal with’ Ali Soufan on 9/11 In October 2000, Ali Soufan, a 29-year-old Lebanese-American FBI agent, was driving across Brooklyn Bridge when his pager beeped. More than 7,000 miles…
Solar geoengineering is the climate solution that could trigger war – The Washington Post
It sounds like something out of science fiction: A country suffering from heat, flooding or crop failures decides on its own to send out a fleet of aircraft to spray a fine, sun-blocking mist into the earth’s atmosphere, reducing temperatures…
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