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What is missing in Piketty's well-intentioned aim of prosperity for all while achieving the climate goal
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (410+ words) However to be fair, let us first consider what the great professor is saying. Unlike what the title of the interview suggests, he is speaking in a global context and only incidentally he says some good things about India which…...
Women Face the Greatest Climate Risks but are Critical to Climate Action
21+ hour, 36+ min ago (570+ words) How the Climate Crisis Is Affecting Women and Girls Extreme weather disasters push many women and girls into increasingly precarious situations almost overnight. The torrential rains in Pakistan in 2022claimed1, 700 lives and affected millions of people. This "extreme weather condition," resulting…...
Earth's most important climate denier dies at 87
23+ hour, 15+ min ago (706+ words) Here's how Lee Raymond's hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, remembered him this morning. I'm going to recount the lowlights of the story here, and add one that gets very little notice in the obituaries, but that ties directly to the…...
Global Inequality, the Climate Emergency and the Global Justice Report
3+ day, 34+ min ago (337+ words) Baber, Zaheer. 2019. "Climate change and the yellow vest movement." Economic and Political Weekly 54, no. 34: 24. Baber, Zaheer. "Socialist Mayor in the Capital of Global Capitalism." Economic & Political Weekly 61, no. 1 (2026): 13. Fanon, Frantz. 1963. The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove Press. Kipfer,…...
India's Extreme Heatwave Threatens Economic Growth and Worker Productivity
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (458+ words) Extreme heat and health Issues A major Indian study analyzing about 3. 6 million deaths found that heatwave days were associated with a 14. 7% increase in daily mortality compared with the non-heatwave days. Most of the cases of deaths" are heat stroke due…...
How Rising Temperatures Threaten Women's Bodies
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (183+ words) Dr Trishna Sarkar, Faculty in the Dept. of Economics, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi by Philippe Le Billon and Pierre Wokuri07/06/2026 The first international'Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels'concluded on April 29 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Stemming from…...
Their Share of the Environment
1+ week, 1+ day ago (702+ words) June 5 comes and goes every year. I often feel that the unnecessary ritualism surrounding such a sensitive issue, along with an excessive dependence on complex scientific terminology and intimidating data, has made the subject of the environment far more distant…...
The Scorching Heat and Silent Death: India's heat crisis is killing the poor in silence
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1760+ words) There is too much heat," Tundre told a Reuters reporter that summer. If we won't work, what will we eat?" [1] Thus, Tundre summed up the predicament of millions: work in the deadly heat or go hungry. When Tundre and Lata…...
Despite Climate Policy Setbacks, a Just Transition is Still Within Reach
1+ week, 2+ day ago (582+ words) Robert Pollin: By far, the largest factor driving the global climate crisis is the burning of oil, coal, and natural gas to produce energy. This is because burning fossil fuels to produce energy generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In turn, the…...
Three Most Important Aims to Guide Policy at the World Level
1+ week, 3+ day ago (311+ words) At a time of extremely serious problems at world level getting further aggravated by highly arbitrary policy decisions, it is important to re-emphasize three most important aims which should guide policy all over the world. While two of these aims…...