environment a complete list of all posts in this category. You can also try the search option in the menu.
Above Us the Waves
W Stephen Gilbert The salient point about Cassandra the mythological princess, and Dr Stockmann in Ibsen’s An Enemy of...
Demands (to Save the World)
Eddison Flame Any good movement needs a list of demands, so I resolved to come up with one. Of...
Capitalist Agriculture: Putting Soil on a Diet of Snake Oil and Doughnuts
Colin Todhunter In their rush to readily promote neoliberal dogma and corporate-inspired PR, many government officials, scientists and journalists...
The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly
Colin Todhunter As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat...
Red And Green Should Never Be Seen
David Lindsay “I also look forward to meeting with Chairman Kim who realizes so well that North Korea possesses...
GM Cotton – Reckless Gamble
Colin Todhunter The dubious performance (failure) of genetically engineered Bt cotton, officially India’s only GM crop, should serve as...
The GMO Issue Reaches Boiling Point in India
Interview with Aruna Rodrigues In a recent article published on the India-based News18 site (CNN), prominent US biologist Nina...
India’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches “Civilization Proportions”
Colin Todhunter With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the...
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working...
End of an Era: Big Agriculture and the Fall of American Dairy
J Birchfield The ongoing American dairy farmer debacle deeply bothers me, and every time I see another reference to...
India Mortgaged? Forced-Fed Illness and the Neoliberal Food Regime
Colin Todhunter Like many countries, India’s food system was essentially clean just a generation or two ago but is...
Haughty Imperialism: Genetically Modifying the Way to Food Security?
Colin Todhunter Those familiar with the debate around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be forgiven for thinking that science alone...
They say there’s no “magic money tree”…well there is! But…
Bryan Gocke In Britain, if it wasn’t for BREXIT we would be discussing (among other things) Labour’s proposed economic...
The 6th mass extinction is a product of capitalism — not population growth
by Barnaby Philips via RCG Every particular mode of production has its own special laws of population, which are...
'Inclusive Capitalism', Nancy Pelosi, and the Dying Planet
by Paul Street, July 21, 2017, via CounterPunch A recent Washington Post and ABC poll finds that just 37 percent of...
VIDEO: Monsanto Employing Troll Army To Silence Online Dissent?
Ever encountered oddly persistent commenters insisting they’ve been eating Roundup for breakfast for the last fifteen years and feel...
King Coal and the Nuclear Heartland, Hand in Hand in Cumbria
by Marianne Birkby at Radiation Free Lakeland The “nuclear heartland” is how Cumbria, home to Sellafield, the nuclear industry’s...
None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if environmental costs were fully integrated
by David Roberts, Grist, April 17, 2013 The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers...
