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Jun 14, 2024 | 
nationofchange.org | Erika Schelby
This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Erika Schelby is the author of Looking for Humboldt and Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond (Lava Gate Press, 2017) and Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future? (Lava Gate Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for the International Essay Prize Contest by the Berlin-based cultural magazine Lettre International. Schelby lives in New Mexico.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Stan Cox |Erika Schelby |Bharat Dogra |Sonali Kolhatkar
The odds are that the entire continental United States will swelter through a hotter-than-normal summer this year. And no surprise there. It seems as if that’s been the forecast every spring for years now. But this summer promises to eclipse even the summer of 2023, which, in the Northern Hemisphere, was the hottest since at least the year 1 AD, according to tree-ring analysis.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Erika Schelby |Bharat Dogra |Sonali Kolhatkar |Tom Engelhardt
Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it. 2023 stands out as a year in which climate records were set. It also showed us that we have put the cart before the horse regarding renewable energy. Firstly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported in January 2024 that in the year prior, the planet experienced its highest temperatures ever recorded since global temperature records began in 1850, surpassing all previous records by a significant margin.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Erika Schelby
Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it. 2023 stands out as a year in which climate records were set. It also showed us that we have put the cart before the horse regarding renewable energy. Firstly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported in January 2024 that in the year prior, the planet experienced its highest temperatures ever recorded since global temperature records began in 1850, surpassing all previous records by a significant margin.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Robert Hunziker |Andrew Glikson |Erika Schelby
With increasing realization that the earth’s basic life-nurturing conditions are threatened by man-made factors, the world has responded in a number of ways ranging from climate change commitments to treaties to reduce weapons of mass destruction. While each and every sincere effort should be welcomed and appreciated, there is clearly need for a frank evaluation of where we have reached so far despite the undoubted value of each and every sincere effort, no matter how small, that has been made.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Bharat Dogra |Andrew Glikson |Erika Schelby
UN climate conferences since 1992 have failed to follow thru with results, as CO2 emissions continue higher and higher with every passing year. In fact, post climate conference impact of adopted proposals has become something 0f an inside joke. The most recent conference, COP28, embraced nuclear power as a godsend challenging climate change. “Triple Nuclear Power” still echoes throughout the halls of COP28.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Andrew Glikson |Erika Schelby |Juan Cole
Economic and social inequalities have historically been a very important aspect of injustice, but in addition these have also resulted in some other important distortions which are not so well recognized. At a certain level of utilization of resources, these resulted in the privileged people grabbing a big share to create a life of excess comfort, luxury and property for themselves which unfortunately became a source of attraction for others.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrew Glikson |Erika Schelby |Juan Cole |Tina Casey
“Without major action to reduce emissions, global temperature is on track to rise by 2.5°C to 4.5°C by 2100”.(NASA 2023)“We Will Not Sign Our Own Death Warrant” (a delegate at COP28). Whether , global warming and its consequences for the habitability of planet Earth remains an open question, for which neither climate science nor the media dominated by politicians and economists, oblivious to the basic laws of physics, have a definitive answer.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Erika Schelby |Juan Cole |Tina Casey |Countercurrents Collective
The planet is facing multiple severe challenges that require our immediate attention. Putting an end to the dirty and suffocating fossil fuel emissions may be the most significant global priority, but limiting the misuse of water and restoring degraded land are also essential projects. These two actions could help put the brakes on extreme weather events and slow down mounting losses in biodiversity, biocapacity, and the economy.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
socialistproject.ca | Erika Schelby
Environment • October 4, 2023 • When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the US Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation’s first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres around the headwaters of the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, he did not anticipate that this priceless pristine land would be invaded by cattle.
