Environment
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Modern slave ships overfish the oceans
Hundreds of fishermen, mostly from Myanmar and Thailand, were rescued from a remote Indonesian island in 2015 after they were found to be working in slavery-like conditions for Thai fishing company Pusaka Benjina Resources. Continue reading
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European Parliament Group Finds Pesticides in Hair Samples Across Europe
148 hair samples were collected from six EU countries: Germany, Denmark, Wales, Italy, France and Belgium between the end of July and October 2018. The samples were then analysed for a selection of 30 pesticides including insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. Continue reading
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Fossil fuel production and use exploded in the 20th century. Can we stop the flow in the 21st?
Of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years In ‘Burning Up’ Simon Pirani shows why fossil fuel consumption has grown so fast, and argues that only radical social change can prevent climate disaster now Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2018
5 November 2018 — Climate & Capitalism Red & Green Reads A bumper crop! Eight new books on biofuels, nutrition fraud, imperialism, post-capitalism, indigenous sovereignty, coral reefs, moral economists, and chicken Continue reading
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Plastic Watch: Five Flaws in the EU’s Single-Use Plastics Plan By Jerri-Lynn Scofield
The European Parliament late last month overwhelmingly approved a plan to ban certain types of single-use plastic, recycle others, and make producing companies more accountable for what happens to such waste. The European Council may approve this measure as soon as this month, with the directive becoming law by the end of this year, according… Continue reading
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Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife, not ‘humanity’ By Anna Pigott
By failing to name the system responsible, the new Living Planet report undermines its own call for a collective response to the biodiversity crisis. Continue reading
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EU Polystyrene Ban: Sign Petition
The European Parliament Environment Committee just voted for a bunch of great changes to strengthen a law on plastic pollution — but they also added a dangerous loophole. We can influence this process now, and a strong EU law will reduce plastic pollution from our shores, no matter what happens with Brexit. Continue reading
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Death and Extinction of the Bees. The Role of Monsanto? By Joachim Hagopian
Perhaps the biggest foreboding danger of all facing humans is the loss of the global honeybee population. The consequence of a dying bee population impacts man at the highest levels on our food chain, posing an enormously grave threat to human survival. Since no other single animal species plays a more significant role in producing… Continue reading
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Scientific Reviews of Glyphosate’s Cancer Risk Fail to Fully Disclose Monsanto’s Role
The scientific journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology has issued a rare “Expression of Concern” and requested corrections to articles it published that failed to fully disclose Monsanto’s role in reviews of glyphosate’s cancer risks. Continue reading
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The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
The fracking industry in the US currently has no feasible way to dispose of its wastewater using environmentally safe methods … and yet it pushes on full speed ahead. Continue reading
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Glyphosate Linked to Bee Deaths By Nick Carne
There’s more bad news for glyphosate, the active ingredient of Roundup, with a recent study suggesting the widely used weed-killer might be contributing to the death of honey bees and native bees around the world. Continue reading
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A world on borrowed time Dr Andrew Glikson
Acting as the lungs of the biosphere, over tens of millions of years the atmosphere developed an oxygen-rich carbon-low composition, allowing the flourishing of mammals. The anthropogenic release to the atmosphere to date of more than 600 Gigaton of carbon (GtC) is reversing this trend, threatening to return the Earth to conditions which preceded the… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 13 September 2018
13 September 2018 — Sustainable Pulse New Gene-Editing Report Highlights Risks to Human Health and Our Environment On the heels on the European Court of Justice’s ruling requiring organisms developed using new genetic engineering techniques to undergo GMO risk assessments, and several new studies revealing “genetic havoc” as a result of gene editing, Friends of… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 6 September 2018
6 September 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Bayer Slashes Earnings Forecast over Rise in Roundup Cancer Cases Bayer has slashed its earnings forecast Wednesday due to, amongst other things, a growing global legal battle surrounding the carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup. The weaker earnings forecast adds to a number of challenges facing the German drugmaker as… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 30 August 2018: Monsanto/Bayer/Agent Orange
30 August 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Are Banned Drugs in Your Meat? Ketamine – a hallucinogenic party drug and experimental antidepressant. Phenylbutazone – an anti-inflammatory deemed too risky for human use. Chloramphenicol – a powerful antibiotic linked to potentially deadly anemia. All these drugs are prohibited in beef, poultry, and pork consumed in… Continue reading
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Yet Another Appeal for “Green” Capitalism, Annotated By Stan Cox
The Guardian recently published an opinion piece by its economics editor Larry Elliott, in which he argued that capitalism can rescue civilization from the global climate emergency. Here are excerpts, with Stan Cox interrupting. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 23 August 2018
23 August 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks General Mills Faces Class Action Lawsuit over Cheerios Glyphosate Cover Up General Mills is facing a potentially damaging class action lawsuit in the U.S. after a florida woman accused it of engaging in deceptive business practices, by not alerting the public that their Cheerios and Honey Nut… Continue reading
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Winning for the bees in 2018
SumOfUs members really are saving the bees: this year you’ve helped win historic bans on bee-killing pesticides in Europe and Canada. And you’ve convinced major retailers in North America and Australia to start ditching toxic neonicotinoid pesticides. Continue reading
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An engineer, an economist, and an ecomodernist walk into a bar and order a free lunch . . . By Stan Cox
Stan Cox says ecomodernists are far better at inventing technological fantasies than at finding ways to solve environmental crises Continue reading
The New Dark Age 