Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticide and a Public Health Crisis

19 February, 2020 — Counter Currents

In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, produced a report that called for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming and move towards sustainable agricultural practices.

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Climate change, dust bowls, fishery collapse: metabolic rifts of capitalism and the need for socialism

4 July 2019 — MROnline – Originally published: Medium by Kale Cable (February 14, 2019)

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Humankind and the environment are hurtling toward unprecedented ecological crises. Global warming, sea level rise, and weather extremes due to carbon emissions are catastrophic enough, but they will mix and combine with ocean acidification, air and chemical pollution, water shortages, deforestation, fishery collapse, soil erosion, and mass extinction, throwing both nature and society off a cliff into the unknown.

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