Every year, nine million people die prematurely due to various forms of environmental pollution. This is shown by a new study published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.
The construction industry plays a crucial role in climate change. But the lawlessness in the sector risks breaking the legs of the entire climate transition work.
The water is draining in the southwestern United States. The great lake Mead has never had such low levels before, and now Los Angeles has introduced restrictions on water consumption.
Last week, more than half of all electricity used in the Netherlands came from renewable sources. This is the first time, according to figures from the website Energieopwek.nl, a partnership of Tennet, Gasunie and Netbeheer Nederland, among others.
The climate movement undeniably had some momentum until the spring of 2020. Then came the pandemic, which closed us in with a new emergency health situation. Preferably a green and prosperous planet, but first an actual vaccine, world leaders seemed to reason.
We are living longer and longer and we have to work longer as it is the key to a better pension. It is not easy to get a job if you are already at the pension age in a European Country, people in their 50s are already getting bought out from their jobs and have a hard time finding a new one.
Most people have heard about the term Fake News by now, how do we know what is real and what is fake when social media is flooded with rumours, photos and videos. Some information is important testimony from eyewitnesses, others propaganda produced to deceive and influence you.
The very rich get a free ticket from climate responsibility. In the European Commission’s proposal for new legislation, they get several different exceptions and free access. The richest percent of the world emits twice as much as the poorest half of the world’s population.
The climate is the question of the fate of this century, after 30 years of work, since Rio in 1992, this insight has spread to popular majorities around the world and at the climate summit in Glasgow, virtually all the world governments promised to do something about it.
The doomsday clock countdown, which serves as a metaphor for the global apocalypse, takes into account the likelihood of threats such as the outbreak of war and the impact of Covid, as well as advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
