Dear Friend,
Whereas CO2 drives warming slowly over a century, methane drives warming quickly – in around a decade. During this time, it is very potent. While methane is often reported as having 28 times more warming impact than CO2, this is when the two are compared over 100 years. That timeframe is now irrelevant given the challenge we face – which is to reducing warming in a decade. Over 10 years, methane is in the order of 90-115 times more dangerous than CO2. It is the nuclear weapon of climate change – a weapon of mass destruction.
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Why The Climate Emergency is now The Methane Emergency
by Paul Gilding
Whereas CO2 drives warming slowly over a century, methane drives warming quickly – in around a decade. During this time, it is very potent. While methane is often reported as having 28 times more warming impact than CO2, this is when the two are compared over 100 years. That timeframe is now irrelevant given the challenge we face – which is to reducing warming in a decade. Over 10 years, methane is in the order of 90-115 times more dangerous than CO2. It is the nuclear weapon of climate change – a weapon of mass destruction.
Restless and Relentless Minds: Thinking as a “Species out of Context”
by Robert Jensen
The stability of the Earth’s ecosystems, and hence the
future of the human species, depends on people recognizing and responding to multiple, cascading social and ecological crises that can easily overwhelm our imaginations. We need to cultivate restless and relentless minds to deal with unprecedented analytical questions and moral challenges if we are to go beyond the failed approaches of our current politics.
The Plight of Afghans and Geopolitical Games – Analysis
Press Release
Dr Usha, who is the author of A Wounded Afghanistan: Communism, Fundamentalism and Democracy said that the narratives on Afghanistan have a particular dimension entrenched in the West’s manipulation of the global public opinion. The ‘war on terror’ itself was designed as a strategy of dominating the geopolitics of Eurasia to contain countries like Russia and China.
Senseless Violence in Afghanistan
by Yanis Iqbal
On August 28, 2021, the US conducted a retaliatory drone strike. According to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, two “high profile” terrorists, described as the “planner” and the “facilitator” of the Kabul airport attack, were killed in the strike. Another terrorist was left injured. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid strongly condemned the US strike as a “clear attack on Afghan territory”
Between Vaccine and the Ventilator
by Satya Sagar
The vaccine is neither part of an evil plot nor a magic potion of some kind. It is just another layer of protection on top of your masking and social distancing measures – that can moderate a severe blow from Covid in the short run. The simple circumstantial evidence involved in the Covid story so far is enough for me to get vaccinated, as the risk involved seems insignificant when
compared to getting infected with Covid.
Tribute To KVSN Prasad Rao On His Birth Centenary
by Harsh Thakor
Earlier this year on 10th February the civil liberties movement or democratic rights movement commemorated the birth centenary of Comrade KVSN Prasad Rao,,who at the time of his death was the president of the Organization for Protection for Democratic Rights(OPDR).
