Tag: humanity
Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs...
True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.
Humanity’s shrinking window: Reversing the Amazon’s slide toward the tipping point
A closer look at the Amazon’s declining health and its global implications.
Not as simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity has a surprisingly...
Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers.
The growing movement to bring back community grief and ritual
A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.
A promising new project to organize humanity’s universal heritage
An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological knowledge—and changing our understanding of humans’ prehistoric heritage.
By 2030, poor nations will need $2.4 trillion per year to...
"Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish. It is either a climate solidarity pact—or a collective suicide pact."
An obituary for our world
Yes, my obituary is a given, but humanity’s should be so much less so.
Increasing disasters are ‘setting humanity on a spiral of self-destruction,’ UN...
“The financial system really needs to get ahead of this curve, because otherwise there’s a lot of built-up risk that isn’t being priced into how we make decisions.”
Societies can prevent wars from starting—and the future of humanity requires...
Experts in peace and conflict studies explain the scientific evidence that societies can choose peace, and that warfare is also a choice, not a necessity.
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House progressives demand answers over alleged abuse in US-Ecuador military operation
Lawmakers are demanding the Pentagon explain the legal basis for joint US-Ecuador operations after reports alleged civilian sites were bombed and detainees were tortured.
From ICE to Iran, veterans are challenging US militarism
Antiwar veterans are leveraging their unique credibility to oppose the war in Iran, stop ICE and support active duty resisters.
Amazon deforestation falls to eight-year low as scientists warn gains remain fragile
Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.
The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.