JARED O. BELL – Abraham Lincoln’s warning has never felt more urgent, a house divided against itself cannot stand. And America will not stand if we split into two realities, one grounded in evidence, the other built on delusions. Without shared truth, there can be no shared purpose, no shared future. Division doesn’t just weaken the house, it rots the foundation. Anti-intellectualism and demagoguery are the rot.
Nuremberg Law Should Apply to Nuclear Weapons Before They’re Used Again
JOHN LAFORGE – With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before they are used again.
Investors see value in US clean power despite Trump cutbacks
NEIL FORD – Investment funds are seeking out clean power and grid projects that can meet booming U.S. power demand and the need for diversified electricity supplies.
The “House of Dynamite” sequel you didn’t know you needed
PATRICIA JAWOREK and ISABELLE WILLIAMS – Decision makers and the public must be reminded of what is at stake should scenarios like A House of Dynamite ever occur. Developing a modern, evidence-based understanding of nuclear risks in today’s world can paint a nuanced picture of the negative cascading effects of nuclear use—an especially important development at a time when the world is again inching closer to the brink and younger leaders and citizens are further removed from the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“The ‘Othered’ genocide: Sudan’s suffering and the world’s indifference
JARED O. BELL – Humanitarian action should never depend on the strategic interests of great powers, yet history shows that it often does. We should have learned this lesson from the Holocaust, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and countless other crises the world ignored because they did not fit political agendas. Silence is complicity, and we have seen where that leads again and again. Sudan is becoming the next horror we will one day mourn, even as it unfolds before our eyes and the world turns away.
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
MICHAEL MANN – Maybe—just maybe—we’ve learned an important lesson here: The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist. The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press.