Environment
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The stories we trust: Regulating genome edited organisms
EXCERPT: In repeating industry narratives, decision-makers (and the media) pave the ground for a handful of corporations to advance false solutions that serve their encroachment of food systems. To help clarify valid claims from technological bluff, we recommend institutions, regulators and funders to carry out a ‘hype test’ by asking: What makes gene editing superior… Continue reading
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Biotech: EU Commission spreading misinformation
The EU Commission has rejected criticism of its report on plants and New GE (New Genetic Engineering, genome editing). In a letter to Testbiotech, the Commission stated that there were no new risks associated with plants derived from genetically engineered plants compared to conventionally bred plants, as long as no transgenes were inserted. The Commission… Continue reading
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Our Rulers Have All The Power And None Of The Responsibility
As the world burns, as ecosystems die off, as the insects vanish, as the forests disappear, as soil becomes rapidly less fertile, as extinction takes over, as the oceans gasp for air and become lifeless deserts while continents of plastic form in their waters, it is interesting how often you hear the sentiment that this is the result of some flaw in humanity for which we all share… Continue reading
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Toxic Corporations Are Destroying the Planet’s Soil
A newly published analysis in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science argues that a toxic soup of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides is causing havoc beneath fields covered in corn, soybeans, wheat and other monoculture crops. The research is the most comprehensive review ever conducted on how pesticides affect soil health. Continue reading
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10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear
In a recent Guardian article, Jacobin magazine’s founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara declared that “If we want to fight the climate crisis, we must embrace nuclear power.” He praised nuclear as a clean and reliable and suggested that opponents of nuclear power are either gripped by “paranoia … rooted in cold war associations” or are relying… Continue reading
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On Paul Kingsnorth and Unruly Nature
7 May 2021 — MROnline by Anthony Galluzzo In a 2010 essay entitled “Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist,” the English émigré environmental writer Paul Kingsnorth recounts his journey into and out of the environmental movement. The essay appeared in the inaugural issue of Dark Mountain, the journal attached to the Dark Mountain group—inaugurated by Kingsnorth… Continue reading
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Resisting Water Privatization in Europe: Key Reasons for Success
In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010. Continue reading
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New trade deal could affect our health and the environment
The latest report in our Toxic Trade series is out!!! It reveals that the UK could be opening the door to 119 pesticides banned for health and environmental reasons as we attempt to join a huge trade deal currently agreed between 11 countries around the Pacific Rim. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 21 May 2021
21 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Herbicides Significantly Associated with Preterm Births – University of Michigan Study Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study published Wednesday. The study, published in Environmental… Continue reading
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21 May 2021: Costing the earth
21 May 2021 — DeSmogUK Honestly, we’d really rather not be writing about the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group on a windswept Friday afternoon (or, indeed, any afternoon, tbh). But in what feels like an alarming pattern of recent weeks, yet another high profile figure has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a thinktank… Continue reading
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Antarctic melt: tipping point by 2060
While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this week in Iceland, an even greater threat looms on the other side of the planet. New research shows it is Antarctica that may force a reckoning between the choices countries make today about greenhouse gas emissions… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2021
Seven new books about capitalist environmental destruction and the fight to save the earth Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 14 May 2021
14 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Raises Malaria Risk through Damage to Insect Immune Systems – New Study The chemical compound glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, can weaken the immune systems of insects, suggests a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Glyphosate is the… Continue reading
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Regenerative organic farming, not GM, is the solution to the climate crisis
On March 22, 2021, The Del Mar Garden Club of Southern California held an informational session called “Fighting climate change with plants”. As a person who is extremely concerned about the looming apocalyptic events due to climate chaos, but not extremely well informed about what we can do to prevent them, I signed up. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
7 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Soil Biodiversity Under Grave Threat from Pesticides – Most Comprehensive Review Ever A new study published Tuesday by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are critical to healthy soil, biodiversity and soil carbon… Continue reading
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Proven: Glyphosate herbicides change gene function and cause DNA damage
BOMBSHELL FINDING COULD END EU AUTHORIZATION OF GLYPHOSATE. REPORT: CLAIRE ROBINSON Glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup activate mechanisms involved in cancer development, including DNA damage – and these effects occur at doses assumed by regulators to have no adverse effects, a new study shows. The DNA damage was caused by oxidative stress, a destructive imbalance… Continue reading
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Water – Free ebook download
This book discusses various aspects of the relationship of water with human society, and with all life on planet earth. Because of climate change, some regions are increasingly threatened by drought, while others experience catastrophic floods. Continue reading
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The Destructive Human Health and Environmental Impacts of Glyphosate Based Herbicide
On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA). She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumble bees (glyphosate-formulated herbicides are the most widely… Continue reading
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Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
A report released today by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the National Toxics Network (NTN) says that rising levels of chemical and plastic pollution are major contributors to declines in the world’s fish populations and other aquatic organisms. Continue reading
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DESMOGUK 23 April 2021: The Greenwashing Files – ‘A great deception’
23 April 2021 — DESMOGUK Crashing waves, sun-bathed wind turbines, bright green algae farms. Also: women running up a steep hill, a newborn’s feet, a smiling scientist, a child in their father’s arms. Emotive imagery of nature and family life are central to adverts made by some of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters, all… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 