In the age of COVID-19, there is no better time to address the root cause of pandemics — the way in which human interact with the environment — and change our legacy from that of “parasite” to nature’s advocate.
Large balloon elephant labelled "racism" at protest.
The Nordic countries are well known for topping charts globally in education, equality, and happiness levels. Nordic welfare...
Until multinational corporations are held accountable for their crimes, illegal logging will continue to devastate forests, threaten indigenous people, and make overcoming the climate crisis ever more difficult.
Australian leaders are caught between competing sirens. It is in neither China’s nor the United States’ best interests to make Australia choose — and, for Australia, perhaps the best choice is neither.
In a distinctly ironic and deeply tragic parallelism, despotic regimes are instrumentalising George Floyd’s death to hold a mirror to a Janus-faced America – an America whose avowed principles of justice and liberty have fallen afoul of their victims both abroad and at home.
Despite human rights violations against indigenous and disenfranchised communities, the courts of previously imperial powers still tend to favor corporate interests, much to the disrespect and neglect of indigenous ontologies.
The COVID-19 pandemic will not be contained without international solidarity and coordination, but not all high-level cooperation is productive — in fact, the politicization of some responses has critically compromised them. A particularly high-stakes example of this trend is the distortion of the personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chain in recent months. As demand continues to outpace supply, manufacturers are primarily offering PPE to their allies, states are taking hazardous shortcuts to produce and procure it, and some governments are being forced to choose between the wishes of their allies and the safety of their constituents.
