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Edition 45 |
Monday, 05 August, 2024 |
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Our Voice
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Lula is right: We need a global tax on the super rich
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Amid growing signs of climate breakdown and declining trust in carbon credits, the world’s best hope is to soak the billionaires and super-polluters who got us into this mess
Jonathan Watts
Altamira, Xingu River, Amazon
The only way to cure the worst planetary fever in more than 100,000 years is with cooling planetary politics. That means the people of the world must seek together, work together and pay together for emergency treatment. First though, we must defeat the nationalist, capitalist forces that seek to divide, weaken and distract us.
This reality has become more apparent and urgent in the past month, amid ever more alarming signs of climate breakdown – from the Amazon to Antarctica – and ever more extreme delaying tactics by those who are most responsible.
Positive new ideas are emerging, including most recently a suggestion from Lula’s government in Brazil for a global tax on billionaires. But most of the world’s power holders would prefer to rely on failed market “solutions,” such as carbon credits, despite growing doubts about their effectiveness. Meanwhile time is running out. |
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Howler
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Episode 47
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...as he explores his forest home and tries to understand the humans who threaten it |
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