There have been two major blocks hindering action to deal with looming climate upheaval. One is political and the other is theoretical. The political good news is that it is reported that the US and China, whose combined greenhouse gas emissions nearly match the rest of the world’s, are now engaged on talks at a […]
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After Haiyan, why can’t the world act against the biggest threat facing mankind?
Nov 19th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.As the death toll heads towards 5,000, perhaps many thousands more, and amid pictures of horrendous and unprecedented destruction, the question on the lips of humanity still lies cold: when will the world take climate change seriously? It is almost unbelievable that in the immediate aftermath of the Tacloban hell on earth, Japan chose to […]
Can anything or anybody stop climate chaos?
May 27th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.It says a great deal about current human values, the grip of the economic elite over society, and the scarcely challenged dominance of free market capitalism that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere passed 400 parts per million for the first time in 4.5 million years, yet it scarcely merited a mention […]