Environment

The ultimate question SCOTUS must answer is this:

Is there ever a time when the health of democracy trumps judicial philosophies and precedents? If not now, when?

Now, from the war-torn border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are questioning whether sustainability can ever be achieved through the framework of nation-states. They are turning to other ways of organising society based on Indigenous worldviews and practices that respect all humans and the rest of nature.

But small as it is, Tromelin Island shows that seabirds are resilient. If people can get rid of invasive predators, island restoration can work—sometimes stunningly.

When we fight, we really do win. And what we win is the ultimate bulwark against climate grief and despair. We find each other.

An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.

Perhaps no community has undergone more versions of imperialism than the tiny island nation of Nauru, which has morphed from being “Pleasant Island” to the mined-out home of offshore banks, discarded refugees, and deep sea mining interests. Jason, Rob, and Asher take a bad trip to wrap their heads around Nauru, the topic of “psychedelic imperialism,” and imperialism’s new frontier – the clean energy transition.