It is not surprising at all that there would be a political split between big and small business over the Paris climate agreement. Whenever you hear that politicians are gathering “stakeholders” from the “business community” to find out their thoughts, know that something is afoul. The interests of large companies are not the same as the interests of free enterprise in general.
Droughts along the western United States are causing crucial wetlands to dry up, to the detriment of thousands of birds. So in 2014, the Nature Conservancy came up with a solution: pay farmers to flood their fields, creating pop-up wetlands. Thanks to markets, the farmers win and the birds win.
Sputnik – 30.05.2017 MOSCOW – Russia has destroyed nearly 99 percent of its chemical weapon stockpile over the past 20 years, the head of the Russian Ministry of Industry’s Department of Conventional Obligations Realization and Trade said on Tuesday. “As of May 29, there are 588 tonnes of poisonous substances left at a facility in […]
RT | May26, 2017 The US has underestimated the risks to its nuclear safety as a single nuclear fuel fire could lead to fallout “much greater than Fukushima,” according to a new study. Researches slammed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for ignoring the potential danger. If spent fuel at one of the dozens of US nuclear […]
90% of the globe’s fisheries are either fully fished or overexploited. Command-and-control regulations are essentially useless for protecting sensitive species, but this simple market-based strategy is reducing the negative environmental effects of overfishing.
Sputnik – 25.04.2017 After years of controversy, Japan has announced its intention to continue building a new air base to house elements of the US Air Force stationed on the island of Okinawa. Tuesday’s initiation of the construction of seawalls around the new base, a replacement for the 1945-era US Air Station Futenma on Okinawa, […]
By John Laforge | CounterPunch | April 21, 2017 Nuclear power supporters like to say, “Nuclear waste disposal is a political, not a scientific problem.” Scientists refute this slogan every day. A case in point is the Canadian Environment Minister’s second “do over” order issued to Ontario Power Generation regarding the company’s waste dump idea. […]
Sputnik – 19.04.2017 Japan has revealed that high levels of a banned pollutant have been found in groundwater underneath Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, on the island of Okinawa. Two recent surveys conducted in August 2016 and January of this year have revealed abnormally high concentrations of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and per-fluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), both […]
Brasil Wire | March 20, 2017 On March 20, David Rockefeller died at the age of 101. As the obituaries for one of the world’s richest men gush over his philanthropy, it needs to be pointed out that he was a major player in several Latin American coups, supported extremely corrupt military dictatorships, post-dictatorship neoliberal […]
By Jim Green | Nuclear Monitor | March 10, 2017 Saturday March 11 marks the sixth anniversary of the triple-disaster in north-east Japan – the earthquake, tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. And the news is not good. Scientists are wondering how on earth to stabilise and decontaminate the failed reactors awash with molten nuclear […]
