Jonathan D. Ostry

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Zeeshan Nasir |Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry

They say only bad news from Balochistan makes the headlines___Pakistan’s largest and most impoverished province marred in a decades long insurgency. The local newspapers are flooded with the news of people being killed in bomb blasts,  target killings and the loss of lives in incidents of terrorism. However, amid this backdrop of turmoil, a problem that is just as terrible is subtly developing: climate change.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry |Ty Ferguson

“Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit” —BBC News. This jarring headline, published three days ago, encapsulates the absurdity of modern climate governance. To host the 2025 United Nations Climate Summit (COP30), the Brazilian government has razed approximately 500 hectares of the Amazon rainforest—a carbon sink critical to stabilizing the global climate—to construct roads, a conference complex, and luxury accommodations for delegates.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry |Ty Ferguson

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, Middle Eastern fossil fuel countries, eye-openers that many eco-minded people, still to this day, cannot stomach.