Category: Environment

Ottawa plastic talks end in weak compromise by Greenpeace

May 3, 2024

The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) for a Global Plastics Treaty ended on a disappointing note as the negotiation caved in to the interests of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. Graham Forbes, Greenpeace Head of Delegation to the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations and Global Plastics Campaign Lead at Greenpeace USA, said: … More Ottawa plastic talks end in weak compromise by Greenpeace

One Year After Ohio Disaster, Greenpeace USA is still calling on Biden Administration to Protect Communities from Hazardous Plastics by Greenpeace USA

March 3, 2024

President Biden will visit East Palestine, Ohio, today to mark the one-year anniversary of a hazardous train derailment incident. Greenpeace USA is calling for immediate action to protect human health and the environment from the toxic impacts of plastics, which have already harmed far too many in East Palestine and across the country. During the … More One Year After Ohio Disaster, Greenpeace USA is still calling on Biden Administration to Protect Communities from Hazardous Plastics by Greenpeace USA

US: Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ by Human Rights Watch

January 26, 2024

Dire Health Crisis From Government Failure to Rein in Fossil Fuels.The fossil fuel and petrochemical industry in the Louisiana area that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley” has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Cancer Alley refers to an approximately 85-mile stretch … More US: Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ by Human Rights Watch

Environmentalism is on a collision course with climate change activism by Murray Hunter

December 27, 2023

As climate change activism is becoming radical, many of the proposed remedies infringe upon the principles of environmentalism. Climate change activism is concerned with the long-term changes in average weather patterns, and carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Environmentalism on the other hand is concerned with the degradation of the environment, including physical, biological, topographical, and … More Environmentalism is on a collision course with climate change activism by Murray Hunter

Expanding the possibilities within climate science by Murray Hunter

August 25, 2023

Climate science is work in progress The current narratives and theatrics around climate science/global warming have us believe carbon is the culprit, and the world must head towards a net-zero carbon emission society. This is very much a singular explanation for an extremely complex phenomenon that few people truly understand the parameters and dynamics of. … More Expanding the possibilities within climate science by Murray Hunter

The Plunge Of Prometheus* by David Sparenberg

December 24, 2022

In an instant—fire! The fire surged unto eternity. Elementals perished amid flaming trees. The Keepers of Animals were consumed with the animals they could no longer protect. Insects with torched antennae and wingless butterflies stumbled, crumpled and died before tongues and mouths of voracious heat. Even angels, with fiery wings resembling butterflies and feathered doves … More The Plunge Of Prometheus* by David Sparenberg

BLESSING WAY & PRAYER of the INTERIOR FORMS of the EARTH by David Sparenberg

August 27, 2022

The Navajo (Dine) people of the American southwest practice sacred ceremonies and prayers of Hozho (Blessing) to renew the order of creation: confirm or reset the proper relationships between human communities and the other-than-human communities of our mutually inhabited biosphere. This is the Blessing Way, the way of respect, appropriate alignment, of coming into, or … More BLESSING WAY & PRAYER of the INTERIOR FORMS of the EARTH by David Sparenberg