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The COP27 Climate Change Conference is underway in Egypt but failure born of neoliberal greed is already apparent. COP27 is ignoring the fundamental realities of Carbon Price, Carbon Debt, and the need for the social and environmental cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution to be fully borne by the polluters. This failure condemns the climate change-impacted global South to horrendous Climate Genocide.
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COP27 Ignores Carbon Price, Climate Costs, Carbon Debt, Full Reparations & Global South
by Dr Gideon Polya
The COP27 Climate Change Conference is underway in Egypt but failure born of neoliberal greed is already apparent. COP27 is ignoring the fundamental realities of Carbon Price, Carbon Debt, and the need for the social and environmental cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution to be fully borne by the polluters. This failure condemns the climate change-impacted global South to horrendous Climate Genocide.
Climate Change Discourse—the Meaning of Changing Economy and Society
by Bharat Dogra
In the discourse on climate change, as the inadequacy of incremental change is increasingly realized, we are now beginning to hear those much needed words more frequently—that much wider changes in economy and society are needed to check climate
change effectively. What exactly does this mean?
Covid Protections- Not War!
by Karyn Pomerantz
This is a Presentation at the People’s Public Health Conference, November 4, 2022. This talk will define imperialism and apply it to Russia and the US, identify the material and political causes of the war, depict the health and economic costs of this war, and recommend urgent strategies to end it.
Challenges on ‘World Day of the Poor’!
by Cedric Prakash
On 17 October 2022, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), released its annual Global Multidimensional Poverty Index(GMPI) report ‘Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty’. The GMPI 2022 compares acute multidimensional poverty for 111 countries in developing regions. These
countries are home to 6.1 billion people, three-quarters of the world’s population. Of these people, 1.2 billion (19.1%) are identified by the 2022 GMPI as multidimensionally poor.
November 11: The Command of the Donkeys Continues
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
It’s a grotesque, ceremonial observance, marked by a degree of unpardonable acceptance. The First World War, which killed millions, extirpated classes in Europe, and destroyed monarchies, established a mawkish ritual that serves to continue, rather than prevent war. The more one grieves for the slaughtered and the brain frozen folly, the more one hopes for the next round of bloodletting, criminal stupidity.
India to be “a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25”- Winners and Losers
by E A S Sarma
A USD 5-trillion
sized economy by 2024-25 i.e. in a couple of years from now, implies a tenfold increase in the GDP, as it stands today, which no doubt implies both speed and scale, though it is doubtful whether it is achievable. Of course, the government will explain away the slippage by citing the Covid excuse. Nevertheless, in an economy growing at such a breakneck speed, who is going to corner the largest slice of the cake?
Airport in Azamgarh – Development or Destruction?
by Rajeev Yadav, Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey
There is a proposal to expand the Azamgarh airstrip to an international airport. This will displace about ten thousand people over 670 acres land covering eight villages – Hasanpur, Kadipur Harikesh, Jamua Hariram, Jamua Jolha, Gadanpur Chindan Patti, Manduri, Jigina Karampur and Jehra Pipri. This land is very fertile. Firstly, people are asking when there are international
airports in Varanasi, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya and now even Lucknow, distance to which has been reduced to 2.5 hours by newly constructed Purvanchal Expressway, in the vicinity of Azamgarh then what is the need of an airport here?
Moving towards an unfree internet: The amended IT Rules, 2021
by Arjun Banerjee
The amended IT Rules, 2021 were notified in end-October this year by MeitY, the electronics and IT ministry of the Indian government. They were withdrawn in June this year after pushback during stakeholder consultations, but even its amended version has not made much of a difference to how it is received.
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