It is no coincidence that the Government’s backtracking reflects the anti-green rhetoric often involving those who pushed for Brexit
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In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers of Greenland. Such societies, having achieved great success, imploded when their governing elites failed to adopt new survival mechanisms to face radically changing climate conditions. Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations. Pueblo Bonito, a six-story structure in Chaco Canyon, contained up to 600 rooms, making it the largest building in North America until the... Read more
Buckle up “You could see this one coming a mile off,” snarked Charlie Pierce (Washington Post): A federal appeals court said Wednesday that it would restrict access to a widely used abortion medication after finding that the federal government did not follow the proper process when it loosened regulations in 2016 to make the pill more easily available. Food and Drug Administration decisions to allow the drug mifepristone to be taken later in pregnancy, be mailed directly to patients and be prescribed by a medical professional other than a doctor were not lawful, a three-judge panel of the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled. Mifepristone will remain available while the Department of Justice appeals the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. “You damn bet it will,” Pierce continued. “Right into the lap of Justice Sam Alito, who will undoubtedly find some obscure codicil in the Code of Hammurabi to justify upholding the ruling of the 5th Circuit, which is the Uruk-Hai to Alito’s Saruman anyway.
A sickness has infected American politics. This malady, it so happens, affects people of both parties, and support for apartheid Israel - which means funding it to the tune of billions of dollars each year - crosses almost every political divide.
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There is far more inflationary pressure from government spending that causes an increase in taxes than from deficit spending
The UK’s public sector is in crisis. More than a decade of chronic underinvestment is now manifesting in threadbare public services delivered by an underpaid, over-stretched workforce. What we’re witnessing is worse than post-pandemic pressures—it’s the managed decline of the public sector itself. The term ‘managed decline’ is generally used to describe the deterioration of […]
The Lever team speaks with a lead attorney on the landmark climate change victory in Montana.
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An analysis of cost-of-living increases for Social Security shows a strong direct effect on income within a state where the recipient lives but little evidence of a spillover effect in other states.
If the ninety-eight-page indictment by Fani T. Willis, district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, of Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, and seventeen other people is ever made into a movie, it should be called The Framing of Ruby Freeman. Willis gives names to, and levels charges at, some of the people who appear anonymously in Jack […]
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Harvey Daniell and Andre Moreira The latest developments in the labour market are often central to monetary policy decisions. We outline a framework for mapping labour market indicators to near-term employment and pay growth, drawing on established insights from the ‘nowcasting’ literature. The key benefits of our approach are: the ability to map a range … Continue reading Forecasting near-term trends in the labour market
The cost of groceries, rents and home loans is still climbing—but Anthony Albanese and Labor do nothing while the Commonwealth Bank made a record $10.2 billion profit in the last year.
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When Dutton chose to oppose the referendum, Labor’s response has been to chase establishment support by denying that the Voice will do anything substantial.
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Over 200 trade unionists and supporters joined a “rally and road trip” in the Pilliga in north-west NSW on 12 August, supporting Gomeroi in their fight against Santos’ Pilliga-Narrabri gas project.
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Former Judge Walter Sofronoff’s report on his Inquiry into the Lehrmann trial is a white wash of the entrenched sexism in the ACT police.
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Anthony Albanese is locking in the biggest US military build-up here since the Second World War, while establishing Australia as a major arms manufacturer.
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The Albanese government has been enraged by The Greens’ refusal to fall in behind its housing fund legislation.
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Heatwaves and wildfires have been raging across the northern hemisphere. July was the hottest month ever recorded.
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Over two months into the much vaunted Ukrainian counter-offensive there has been no serious movement of the front lines.
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The coup in Niger in west Africa is a huge blow to Western imperialism.
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