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Global interest spiked this week in an Act of the New Zealand parliament granting personhood to the Te Urewera National Park. The actual wording of the act is that “Te Urewera is a legal entity and has the same legal rights, powers, duties and responsibilities as a person.” This means that legal action can be Continue Reading →
Pope Francis this week named pollution as ‘sinful’ and fighting Climate Change a ‘sacred duty’. He called urgently for people to actively work to save the environment, proposing that the Catholic Church add such a duty to the list of “seven mercies,” which includes feeding the hungry and visiting the sick, which Catholics are required Continue Reading →
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Sea levels will rise at least two metres and as much as six metres by the end of the century, scientists confirmed today. Climate science pioneer, James Hansen, flagged the results nine months ago breaking scientific convention by publishing the results prior to a rigorous review by his peers. As a result the results have Continue Reading →
Drug lords and government forces in Colombia have been negotiating for over four years to find agreeable terms to settle the South American nation’s fifty year long civil war. The negotiations, held in Cuba between government and left-wing rebels, have settled on six key areas including land ownership, democratic rights and amnesty for left wing Continue Reading →
Many Swedish retailers stopped accepting cash this month as the next step in the nation’s move to become a cashless society. Writing in CounterCurrents this week, Brett Scott reports that European nations are backing the banks in a call to accelerate the elimination of cash. Scott quotes various politicians and bank executives as evidence that the Continue Reading →