18 May 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
New Study
If emissions continue at current rates, the world will soon be committed to irreversible and catastrophic sea level rise
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by Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton
The Conversation, May 17, 2021
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 and the future survival of their coastlines and coastal cities, from New York to Shanghai.
That reckoning may come much sooner than people realize.
Building housing the offices of Associated Press and other media collapses after Israeli airstrike, Gaza City, May 15, 2021.
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Palestinians in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, stage a protest in solidarity with Palestinian residents of the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 10, 2021 [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]![Book Launch of Ramzy's Baroud latest book - The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story on 27 March, 2018 [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A1259.jpg?resize=180%2C168&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The New Dark Age 