Dreams of the Rich
Texas start-up Intuitive Machines has achieved the first moon landing by a private firm. It’s dumping rich people’s detritus on the lunar surface — a grim sign of how the superrich plan to plant their flag beyond our own planet. After many failed attempts by various private outfits, Intuitive Machines is the first private company
Climate
Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media. On November 14, the US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which found that the United States is already
Censorship
Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes, research shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals. The tycoons include
Corporate Greed
Please DO NOT let this happen. Elected officials in Cincinnati are considering a lucrative deal with rail executives that would sell one of the last publicly owned stretches of rail line in the US to Norfolk Southern, the company behind the disastrous train derailment in Ohio last winter. Next month, the company behind an Ohio
Environment
Having big UK meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet would be like taking 8 million cars off the road. That’s just one of the findings of new research that scientists say gives the most reliable calculation yet of how what we eat impacts our planet. The Oxford University study is the first
Capitalism
Put simply, the climate crisis is being caused by the richest class in every country. They’re the ones who are recklessly driving us over the precipice of planetary breakdown. An Oxfam analysis with the Stockholm Environment Institute found the following: The per capita emissions of someone in the top 1 percent is 100 times higher than someone