Carbon Sequestration Is Not A Solution To The Climate Crisis

 Carbon Sequestration Is Not A Solution To The Climate Crisis

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Carbon Sequestration Is Not A Solution To The Climate Crisis
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc140415.htm

Carbon Sequestration has been mooted as one geoengineering approach to ameliorating climate change. To be effective, trapping the gas in geological deposits would be for the very long term, thousands of years. Now, a team in Brazil, writing in the International Journal of Global Warming has reviewed the risk assessments for this technology and suggests a lack of knowledge means we should be cautious of turning to this method rather than finding sustainable ways to reduce emissions at their source


Calling For Divestment In Fossil Fuel, Harvard Protesters Blockade Massachusetts Hall
By Mariel A. Klein & Theodore R. Delwiche

http://www.countercurrents.org/delwiche140415.htm

Members and supporters of the activist group Divest Harvard began a planned blockade of three entrances to Massachusetts Hall on Sunday and were still rallying outside the building in protest of Harvard's investment in fossil fuel companies late that evening


The Rise Of Biocultural Rights
By David Bollier

http://www.countercurrents.org/bollier140415.htm

The idea of bioocultural rights provides a powerful legal framework for reclaiming land, culture, traditional knowledge and self-governance. These things should not be driven by markets, but by a deeper set of values, including ecological imperatives. It will take a great deal of bottom-up political and legal action to win recognition for biocultural rights. But I think it holds great promise for giving commons-based governance a new foundation in law


Joy Oh Joy ! Hillary Is Running
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman140415.htm

In the end, the person America elects as President makes no appreciable difference to what America does in the world or how its wealthy rulers treat their own people, a presidential election being little more than the most costly theater performance in the world, "a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing."


The 2015 British General Election: Capitalism's One-Horse Race
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter140415.htm

No matter who wins on 7 May, the public is destined for more of the same. The real outcome of the election has already been decided by the interlocking directorate of think tanks, big business and its lobby groups and the higher echelons of the civil service. The election will be akin to rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship


The United States Of Israel
By Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal140415.htm

On a one-day conference in Washington on the power and the influence of the Israel Lobby organized by the "Institute for Research/Middle East Policy" and the "Washington Report for Middle East Affairs" Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy delivered an impassioned speech at the National Press Club blaming the Zionist lobby for the dominant role Israel plays in U. S. politics


Military Missions Reach Record Levels After U.S. Inks Deal
To Remain in Africa For Decades
By Nick Turse

http://www.countercurrents.org/turse140415.htm

As Turse writes today of AFRICOM's growth, bad news from the African front after the U.S. military moved onto the continent in a big way only led to a further "swelling of bases, personnel, and funding" -- and, of course, no blowback at all when it comes to the officials directing all of this. For them, as Turse's reporting makes clear, it's a blowforward world all the way


A Rain Coat For A Cuban woman
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury140415.htm

It's not logical to make a comparison between an island-country, Cuba, going through decades of economic blockade and a continent-sized country commanding unimaginable amount of natural and human resources, the US. It's not logical to compare a country trying to establish its own way of democracy with a country having its system of governance that serves a minority part of society. The first one is making the endeavor for a few decades while the other one is having the system for more than two centuries. Shall it be logical to assess the first one with an eye and viewpoint of the second one? Definitions will be different; meanings will differ; explanations will vary, and so, the conclusions shall err


The Myth Of Violence
By Harsh Mander

http://www.countercurrents.org/mander140415.htm

This is an excerpt from Harsh Mander's new book "Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India" published by Speaking Tiger


Why Is Next Ambedkar Needed?: A Time For Reflection
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava140415.htm

We need a new Ambedkar, who goes inside the real life of the dalits; Who lives like them, who makes them aware, who is not a vote catcher but a strength giver so that no new Dhirendra Kumar Maurya is born. Micro level work is must to remove these great issues of deprivation to dalit