Two landmark rulings on the urgent responsibility [23] of states to address the climate crisis are issued—by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [24] in a proceeding brought by Chile and Colombia, and by the World Court [25] in a proceeding brought by the threatened [26] Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu. Meanwhile in the USA, the Trump regime withdraws [27] from the Paris Agreement [28], removes [29] greenhouse gases from EPA oversight [30], drops subsidies [31] for solar energy—and even destroys [32] NASA's climate-monitoring satellites! This as receding Arctic ice sheets [33] and sea ice [34] begin to destabilize [35] the climate-regulating [36] Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC [37]), melting [34] glaciers [38] unleash deluges from the Swiss Alps [39] to the Himalayas [40] of Nepal [41], wildfires rage from Canada [42] to California [43] to the Mediterranean [44], and ocean acidification [34] crosses a "planetary boundary [45]" that portends global biosphere collapse [46]. In Episode 290 [47] of the CounterVortex podcast [48], Bill Weinberg takes an unflinching look at the long odds [49] for humanity's future—even if we manage to avoid nuclear war.
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