Billions of animals – in particular pigs, cows and chickens -are confined in colossal facilities which produce huge numbers of animals to be slaughtered and sold. These huge agribusinesses must be stopped because they endanger humanity worldwide by unleashing deadly pandemics.
Peter Senker, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, March,2021 ABSTRACT Modern cars are large complex machines, each designed to travel tens of thousands of miles over several years. These notes represent an attempt to evaluate the impact of cars on global warming. For such an evaluation to be realistic, it must take into account..
In 2015, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and protect our planet. For many centuries, individuals and small firms had made and distributed basic commodities such as food and clothing.They accumulated profits by keeping whatever remained after they had paid for their expenses. In the nineteenth century,..
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate Naomi Klein is concerned with anthropogenic climate change which she had denied for a long time. She is pessimistic about the future: “We know that if we continue on our current path of allowing (carbon dioxide) emissions to rise year after year, climate change will change..
A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment, Anthem Press, 2015. Fücks states that the overwhelming majority of the scientific community agrees that “Global CO2 emissions must be halved by the middle of the century in order to stabilise the earth’s climate2. He considers that, even if it is too late to limit the..
Earth Grab considers how global capitalism’s deployment of technology is liable to lead to disaster for the planet and most of those who live on it. It groups approaches to the deployment of technology into three: 1. “Geopiracy”. This relates to geo-engineering. Definitions are contested, but the following extracts from the work of reputable organisations such as the..