We’re Taking the Whole Damn Planet With Us.
Is Monsanto “evil”? Just pop that question into Google and you’ll find out quickly why Monsanto ranks near the top of every “most hated company” list. And ask any news editor … the name “Monsanto” is guaranteed clickbait that reels in readers by the bushel. It’s probably why you are reading this right now. Perhaps…
JP Sottile appeared on “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann” to talk about his latest story on Truthout: Mother Nature’s Invisible Hand Strikes Back Against the Carbon Economy. JP explains why the invisible hand of Mother Nature is just now beginning to settle accounts with one of the most inefficient, most subsidized and least enlightened…
Is the hydrocarbon economy too big to fail? If the woefully inadequate outcome of the Paris climate conference is any indication, the answer is still a resounding “Yes!” That’s because the overly optimistic agreement conspicuously ignored the core issue driving up the earth’s temperature and warping the world’s already misshaped markets. The problem is Big Oil. Simply…
Secretary of State John Kerry declared climate change “a threat to national security” and likened it to a “weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” His declaration during a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia came on the heels of President Obama’s visit to drought-stricken California to deliver both aid and…
GMOs are not popular and Big Ag knows it. That’s why the industry opened its wallet to defeat attempts to pass mandatory labeling of food containing genetically modified components in California ($46m) and in Washington ($22m). It is also why the Grocery Manufacturers Association recently launched a “pre-emptive strike” against labeling at the Federal level….