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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Lubna Masarwa |Gideon Polya |Brett Wilkins |Richard Heinberg
India Palestine Solidarity Forum unequivocally condemns US President Trump’s statements calling for the ‘clean out’, ‘take over’, & ‘we’ll own it’, calling for US ownership of Gaza – which is ultimately meant to lead to the ethnic cleansing of the Gazan Palestinian population. President Trump had earlier shocked the world when he used the phrase – ‘just clean out’ Gaza, by transferring the Palestinian population to Jordan & Egypt (25.01.2025).
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Richard Heinberg |Zoya Teirstein |Fedaa al-Qedra
I have not heard much about Pakistani activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai since she graduated from Oxford University in 2020. At 24, she got married in 2021 to a Pakistani man. She announcedthe news on Twitter, sharing photos of the Islamic marriage ceremony known as the nikkah.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Otto Scharmer |Miho Soon |Richard Heinberg |Bharat Dogra
Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s NextIn 2024, over 2 billion of us voted in national elections. So what have we learned so far this year, in general and from the US election in particular? In the seven observations & reflections below I offer some of my own initial sensemaking as part of a broader conversation happening now.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Miho Soon |Richard Heinberg |Bhabani Nayak |Bharat Dogra
Rethinking abundance, wellbeing, and security in a post-growth world. To offer a meaningful alternative economic system, I believe it is essential that we engage with what we dream of as ‘good lives ‘— the diverging stories, in their own framing and in their own language, of what this looks like to different people all around the world.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Edgar Kaiser |Vikas Meshram |Richard Heinberg |Jeffrey D. Sachs
A Short History:The estate of Manjolai region is a beautiful landscape located in the Western Ghats in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. In 1929, Singampatti Zamindar, who controlled the land, leased 8374 acres to Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (BBTC), a private company owned by Nusliwadia of present Wadia Group, Maharashtra, for a period of 99-year lease.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Richard Heinberg |Bharat Dogra |John Feffer |Tom Murphy
Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the UK government, recently wrote that, “On our present path, civilization as we know it will disappear.” More than a century’s worth of sustainability research has documented how humanity is undermining its own future by polluting the environment, depleting resources, and damaging the natural systems that support complex life on our planet. Sadly, most people fail to understand the seriousness of our predicament.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Richard Heinberg
Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the UK government, recently wrote that, “On our present path, civilization as we know it will disappear.” More than a century’s worth of sustainability research has documented how humanity is undermining its own future by polluting the environment, depleting resources, and damaging the natural systems that support complex life on our planet. Sadly, most people fail to understand the seriousness of our predicament.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Dave Darby |Richard Heinberg |Hiren Gohain |Michael Albert
It’s essential that we stabilise the global economy. More people understand this every year, but corporations and governments don’t, and so we continue to destroy nature for profit. They’ve built up a bank of myths around the necessity of perpetual growth. Here are 12 common ones, and how to respond to them. Myth 1: A service economy can grow forever.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
dailyguardian.com.ph | Richard Heinberg
By Richard HeinbergThe transition from relying overwhelmingly on fossil fuels to using alternative low-carbon energy sources could be “unstoppable and exponential,” according to some experts. A boosterish attitude by many renewable energy advocates is understandable; overcoming people’s climate despair and sowing confidence could help muster the groundswell of motivation needed to end our collective fossil fuel dependency. But occasionally, a reality check is required.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
rozenbergquarterly.com | Richard Heinberg
by: Richard Heinberg
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10-07-2024 ~ The seven steps that could help build a social movement and ensure a sustainable future. The transition from relying overwhelmingly on fossil fuels to using alternative low-carbon energy sources could be “unstoppable and exponential,” according to some experts.
