Massive removal of carbon from the atmosphere—also known as negative emissions, carbon drawdown, or regeneration—could be a cornerstone of either dystopian or radically utopian futures. Some of the dystopian ones are well known: vast...
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A short fuse is burning. At the present rate of global emissions, the world is projected to reach the trillionth metric ton of cumulative carbon emissions, breaking the global carbon budget, in less than two decades. This would usher in a...
Commoner was not simply a biologist who happened to call for social change. He was a skilled organizer, committed to thoroughgoing change in social and economic conditions because he saw change in these arenas as the way to create an...
Though we will often seek thoughtful expertise, we see the spirit of radical science in the worker-intellectual who takes ideas seriously enough to embrace the full world as her jurisdiction rather than some narrow sliver of it.
Nain is the most northern Inuit community in Nunatsiavut, Canada. It was one of the first places in Newfoundland and Labrador to ban plastic grocery bags in 2009 after villagers saw hundreds of plastic bags snagged on rocks underwater when...
Although the cost already borne by the people of Indochina in terms of human deaths and injuries is staggering, still more suffering awaits them as a consequence of the lingering effects of the new use of an old weapon — environmental...
Weather is often used as a catch-all explanation by government and business to explain rising food prices. For example, last spring it was said that meat prices rose because of monsoons, floods, droughts, hurricanes ... not a word about...
The SFVN report says: "Weather modification could be used to achieve longer-range military, economic, or political effects than we generally think of in conventional warfare. For instance, strategic rain-making could be used to slow...
In the first sessions changes in standard teaching methods were relatively superficial: "pelvic models" were each paid $25 for each teaching session. In each teaching session, four or five medical students did a bimanual pelvic...
A feminist perspective would not hail new technological developments as "liberating" because it would realize that the oppression of women is not the result of biology but of the social constructs around it. In this respect, it is...