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Climate Change Could Prompt Tens of Thousands of Suicides in the US and Mexico by 2050

“A main hypothesis is that hotter temperatures have a direct effect on human emotion and impulsivity.”

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Liberal Philanthropy is Dooming the Planet to Climate Disaster

The abject failure of liberal philanthropy to address climate change points to the urgency of a broad-based people’s strategy for climate education and action.

Liberal Philanthropy is Dooming the Planet to Climate Disaster

The strategy document, published by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in January, represents

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Nafeez Ahmed

Nafeez Ahmed

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is the founding editor of INSURGE intelligence. Nafeez is a 16-year investigative journalist, formerly of The Guardian where he reported on the geopolitics of social, economic and environmental crises. Nafeez reports on ‘global system change’ for VICE’s Motherboard, and on regional geopolitics for Middle East Eye. He has bylines in The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, New York Observer, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, among other places. He has twice won the Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting; twice been featured in the Evening Standard’s top 1,000 list of most influential Londoners; and won the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award created by the President of the Republic. Nafeez is also a widely-published and cited interdisciplinary academic specializing in complex systems analysis.

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Liberal Philanthropy is Dooming the Planet to Climate Disaster, Documents Reveal

We need a people’s movement to mobilise for ecological regeneration and systemic transformation.

Liberal Philanthropy is Dooming the Planet to Climate Disaster, Documents Reveal

One of the world’s biggest philanthropic initiatives to address climate change is set-up to fail catastrophically, according to a strategy document setting out the initiative’s five-year plan.

The 

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Nafeez Ahmed

Nafeez Ahmed

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is the founding editor of INSURGE intelligence. Nafeez is a 16-year investigative journalist, formerly of The Guardian where he reported on the geopolitics of social, economic and environmental crises. Nafeez reports on ‘global system change’ for VICE’s Motherboard, and on regional geopolitics for Middle East Eye. He has bylines in The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, New York Observer, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, among other places. He has twice won the Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting; twice been featured in the Evening Standard’s top 1,000 list of most influential Londoners; and won the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award created by the President of the Republic. Nafeez is also a widely-published and cited interdisciplinary academic specializing in complex systems analysis.

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Collective Intelligence May Be Humanity’s Best Bet to Stave off an Uninhabitable Planet

Humanity needs new tools to overcome the global crisis of collective insanity

Collective Intelligence May Be Humanity’s Best Bet to Stave off an Uninhabitable Planet

The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which points to a nearly uninhabitable planet by the end of the century if business-as-usual continues, is perhaps its most apocalyptic dimension. But the ecological crisis is intimately bound up with the

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Nafeez Ahmed

Nafeez Ahmed

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is the founding editor of INSURGE intelligence. Nafeez is a 16-year investigative journalist, formerly of The Guardian where he reported on the geopolitics of social, economic and environmental crises. Nafeez reports on ‘global system change’ for VICE’s Motherboard, and on regional geopolitics for Middle East Eye. He has bylines in The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, New York Observer, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, among other places. He has twice won the Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting; twice been featured in the Evening Standard’s top 1,000 list of most influential Londoners; and won the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award created by the President of the Republic. Nafeez is also a widely-published and cited interdisciplinary academic specializing in complex systems analysis.

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Mike Pompeo Better for Big Oil Than Former Exxonmobil CEO Rex Tillerson

In Trump’s White House, the most dangerous industry on earth has a stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy.

Mike Pompeo Better for Big Oil Than Former Exxonmobil CEO Rex Tillerson

It’s said that you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. And the shady characters President Trump has surrounded himself with represent a new low even by Washington standards. One thread that ties many of these people together is their deep connection with the fossil fuel industry — and their willingness to

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Basav Sen

Basav Sen

Basav Sen cover climate policy.  He is a former strategic corporate campaign researcher at the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). He has also had experience as a campaigner on the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and global finance and trade issues. As a member of a grassroots neighborhood-based environmental group, he has been involved in local struggles on energy justice in Washington DC.

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On The Fast Track to Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?

The threat faced by humanity is not the multitude of complex social, political, economic and technological forces precipitating our rush to extinction, it is our dysfunctional individual and collective psychological state, perhaps a much more vexing problem to solve.

On The Fast Track to Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?

Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens are on the fast track to extinction, most likely sometime between 2025 and 2040. For a taste of the evidence in this regard focusing on the climate, see

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Robert J. Burrowes

Robert J. Burrowes

Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?’ His email address is flametree@riseup.net and his website is here.

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In One Year, China Will Add More Solar Capacity Than Any Other Country Has — Ever

China’s investment in solar in 2017 is yet more evidence that the country is dead serious about being the world’s clean energy leader.

In One Year, China Will Add More Solar Capacity Than Any Other Country Has — Ever

It’s no secret China has been installing solar panels at a record-breaking rate — it’s been happening for years now.

But in 2017 China took its solar drive even further, deploying more PV capacity in one year than any other country has — or at least had at end of

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