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Study: Racism, Not Economics, Plays Bigger Role in Producing Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
A Black infant is many times more likely to die within one year of birth than a white infant is, even if that Black infant comes from a wealthy home, a new study shows. The study, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month, demonstrates that disparities in Black infant mortality rates cannot be explained by economics alone. Rather, racism within the health care industry — both overt and institutional — appears to play a significant role in such outcomes.
Power to the Peaceful
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 Resurgence was born out of the anti-war movement of the 1960s, and nonviolent resistance to the nuclear arms race. In this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist, we return to our roots, with an exploration of the role of peaceful protest today in our crisis-afflicted world. Vandana Shiva discusses the legacy of India’s ‘treehuggers’ and recent farmers’ protests, and we consider the role of ‘culture jamming’ when challenging the messages of consumer culture.
Getting the Law in Order
Issue 314 May/June 2019 Pathways Ecologist Getting the Law in Order by Oliver Tickell Cover: © Clover Robin Courtesy of The Bright Agency Issue availability Order the current issue now Issue available as PDF Reprint permissions Oliver Tickell meets barrister and activist Polly Higgins. Amongst the Moss © Ben Porter www.benporterwildlife.co.uk Polly Higgins, barrister turned environmental campaigner, is a woman with a mission, and one thing she can’t be accused of is not thinking big enough.
Making the Case for Going Green
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a man of many passions. To name but several: good food, less waste, healthier people, thriving Nature, and an end to human cruelty to animals. But there is one more that knits all three together: vegetables. Or rather, more vegetables. Or then again, many more vegetables! How so?
Mission Possible
Tony Juniper is a man with a mission “to do for the natural environment what is finally happening with climate change – to attack the global wave of extinctions with the same focus and energy that climate campaigners took to Paris in 2015!” Unlike most of us however, he is in a place where he might actually be able to bring it off. As the new campaigns director at WWF UK, he is determined to remotivate the organisation and make it a powerful fighting force to save our imperilled natural world.
Ocean Plastic Pollution Isn’t Just Immoral, It’s Illegal
The pollution of oceans with plastic litter, discarded nylon fishing nets and eco-toxic microbeads is well known as one of the great scourges of the modern age ? not just entangling and choking endangered, charismatic species like sea turtles, dolphins and even great whales, but attracting long-lived organic pollutants that end up permeating the entire marine food chain, right up to the fish on our plates. Less well known is that all this ocean plastic is illegal.
Nuclear Betrayal in the UK
It seems like a long time ago now: the Conservative party’s catastrophic 2017 election manifesto. Yes, the one that promised a new care home tax on the elderly, and an end to the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance. And that went on to turn Teresa May’s repeated mantra of ‘strong and stable’ government into hubris of the first order as she lost her overall majority in Parliament. But not everything in the manifesto was a disaster. Indeed it contained one excellent policy – on energy.
There's a Way: Now We Need the Will
Hardly a day passes without news on ocean plastic, and the news is generally bad. As I write, the latest is that minute particles of plastic in our seas build up a thin film of algae, which emit the gas dimethyl sulphide. As it happens, many small fish are acutely sensitive to the gas, and highly attracted to it, as it signals to them the presence of food. The fish eat the plastic, along with the persistent organic toxins (like PCBs) that also glue themselves onto the particles.
Small Nuclear Reactors, a 50s Nightmare Come Back to Haunt Us
It’s easy to see why Rolls Royce and other companies in the nuclear engineering business are pushing the UK government finance the development a new generation of ‘small modular reactors’ or SMRs. Whether the project succeeds or fails, there are juicy profits to be had for them at taxpayers expense. Rather harder to understand is why the government should see the slightest merit in the idea.
#FreeJackLetts
Former neighbours I had not seen for years recently came back into my life when they told me that their son Jack, who had converted to Islam as a teenager at Oxford’s Cherwell comprehensive school, was trapped in ISIS territory in Raqqa, Syria. In September 2014, aged 18, he had travelled to Syria by some circuitous route, inspired by the idea of a truly Islamic government and wanting to help.
Study Finds Fracking Is Strongly Related to Increased Infant Mortality
Judy Eckert holding water contaminated with arsenic drawn from her private well 450 feet from a fracking rig in Pennsylvania, which she believes contaminated her water supply. (Photo: Public Herald / Flickr) A new study of Pennsylvania counties published this week in the Journal of Environmental Protection shows for the first time that contamination from fracking kills babies.
We're Still Stronger Together
Like so many of us, Vivian Woodell found his mission in life by accident. At the age of 16 he joined his local retail Co-op. “I just liked the idea of it,” he explains. The year was 1979, around the time Margaret Thatcher came to power. “The whole idea of a shop owned by its customers appealed to me at a time when mainstream thinking was all about privatisation.
How the US Undermined the Copenhagen Climate Summit
Today the IPCC revealed its latest information on how human emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting planet Earth, and will continue to do so way into the future. The diagnosis, and the prognosis, both make terrifying reading. We can expect declining crop yields, increasing climate instability, more extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean acidification – and all the rest of it. But what really matters is what, if anything, we do about it.
China condemned for massive coral reef destruction
This week’s ruling by the Permanent Tribunal of Arbitration in the Netherlands strongly condemns China for the serious and permanent environmental damage it has inflicted to coral reefs and and their wildlife in the South China Sea. The case was brought by the Philippines which is infuriated at China’s ‘occupation’ of islands and waters that fall within its exclusive territorial zone, and the severe damage it has caused to coral reefs and other natural resources.
Judge rules: no right to know hazardous pesticide ingredients
A federal judge has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency is under no obligation to force pesticide makers to disclose supposedly 'inert' ingredients in their products - even where those ingredients are seriously hazardous to health or environment. A federal judge in California has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no duty under federal pesticide law to complete rulemaking on the disclosure of hazardous ingredients in pesticide products.
Did GM Mosquitos Cause the Zika Outbreak?
Did GM Mosquitos Cause the Zika Outbreak? How genetically modified mosquitoes turned Zika from an inocuous virus into the potential source of newborn deformities. Since August 2015, a large number of babies in Northeast Brazil have been born with very small heads, a condition known as microcephaly, and with other serious malformations. 4,180 suspected cases have been reported.
Sue Lloyd-Roberts a unique phenomenon at the BBC
Investigative journalist Sue Lloyd Roberts who died this week, fought for the oppressed and downtrodden. The BBC should keep her mission alive with a unit dedicated to human rights worldwide. Today I woke up to hear sad news of the radio. The BBC's most outstanding journalist, Sue Lloyd Roberts, had died after a long battle with cancer. Sad, of course, for her close friends and family.
IARC: Glyphosate 'Probably Carcinogenic'
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has labelled the world's biggest herbicide, glyphosate, as 'probably carcinogenic'. Another four widely used organophosphate insecticides may also pose a cancer risk. A monograph published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - of which a summary ispublished in the scientific journal The Lancet Oncology - has branded the herbicide glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans".
Grabbing Africa's Seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation Back Agribusiness Seed Takeover
A battle is currently being waged over Africa's seed systems. After decades of neglect and weak investment in African agriculture, there is renewed interest in funding African agriculture. These new investments take the form of philanthropic and international development aid as well as private investment funds. They are based on the potentially huge profitability of African agriculture - and seed systems are a key target.
How Gates the Foundation and Western Countries Are Plotting to Take Control of Africa's Agriculture
How Gates the Foundation and Western Countries Are Plotting to Take Control of Africa's Agriculture A battle is currently being waged over Africa's seed systems. After decades of neglect and weak investment in African agriculture, there is renewed interest in funding African agriculture. These new investments take the form of philanthropic and international development aid as well as private investment funds.
Gates Foundation, GMO banana face renewed attacks
Among the controversial projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the development and testing of a biofortified GMO banana developed to boost its iron, Vitamin E and proVitamin A content. To this end the Foundation, via its Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, has so far given $15 million to Queensland University of Technology for the program run by Professor Dr James Dale, with a latest tranche of $10 million handed over this year.
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