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14/03/2020

Ladakh – An Uphill Battle for India’s Little Tibet

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By Ashish Kothari*

13 March 2020 (Wall Street International)*  — Ladakh: one of India’s most outstandingly beautiful landscapes, and a unique biocultural region. Known as ‘Little Tibet’ for the predominantly Buddhist culture a substantial part of it harbours (with equally interesting Muslim culture in the other part), Ladakh today faces possibly the most significant crossroads it has faced since being incorporated into the Indian union.
Leh valley from air © Ashish Kothari
Leh valley from air © Ashish Kothari
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14/03/2020

UN Human Rights Chief: Racism and Xenophobia Are ‘Contagious Killers’ Too

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(UN News)* — The coronavirus outbreak may have forced millions around the world already into “social distancing”, keeping a metre apart to prevent its spread, but it will not stop them from uniting to combat racism, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights declared in Geneva on Friday [13 March 2020].

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Michelle Bachelet was addressing the Human Rights Council as members met to debate progress since the launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent in 2014.

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13/03/2020

USA and France Dramatically Increase Major Arms Exports; Saudi Arabia Is Largest Arms Importer – SIPRI

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By the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)*

(Stockholm, 9 March 2020) International transfers of major arms during the five-year period 2015–19 increased by 5.5 per cent compared with 2010–14. According to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the largest exporters of arms during the past five years were the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China. The new data shows that the flow of arms to the Middle East has increased, with Saudi Arabia clearly being the world’s largest importer.

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13/03/2020

Global Light Pollution Is Affecting Ecosystems – What Can We Do?

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13 March 2020 (UN Environment)* — For hundreds of millions of years, the web of life on land has been dependent on, and determined by, day and night, light and dark. Photosynthesis, the process by which plants grow, depends on light and dark. And all animals depend on plants for their survival.

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One of the less frequently reported impacts of human activity on the environment is the presence of artificial light. Lighting disrupts photosynthesis and the activities of insects, birds and other animals.

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13/03/2020

Traditional Farming System in Brazil Added to Global Agricultural Heritage List

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Farmers known as Sempre-vivas flower gatherers from Espinhaço Mountain Range won recognition for their crucial role in enhancing biodiversity and preserving traditional knowledge

Photo: ©FAO/Fernanda_Testa_Monteiro

From April to October, the flower gatherers and their families climb up the mountain for the picking of the Sempre-Vivas flowers, staying there for weeks.

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12/03/2020

Five Things You Should Know Now about the COVID-19 Pandemic

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(UN News)* — On Wednesday 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded the status of the COVID-19 outbreak from epidemic to pandemic.

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More New Yorkers appear to be wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus.

Here are five important pieces of information on what this means for you and your community.

1) What’s the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

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12/03/2020

Stock Market Bubble No Basis for Shared Prosperity

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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram*

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 10 2020 (IPS)* – The US is currently still in a stock market bubble which, if history is any guide, is likely to end, perhaps soon due to Covid19. President Trump would, of course, like to sustain it to strengthen his November re-election prospects.

Meanwhile, US business investment has declined for many years. As shares of GDP, corporate profits or even market capitalization, such investment has been in decline for at least four decades. Clearly, ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies have failed to decades-long trend.

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Although focused on the US, William Lazonick’s seminal 2014 Harvard Business Review article, Profits without Prosperity, and Lazonick and Shin’s new book, Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the US Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be Restored offer invaluable insights into investment trends with implications for much of the world.

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12/03/2020

‘2020 Will Be Pivotal for Climate Action If the World Is to Control Ever Worsening Impacts of Climate Change Before It Is Too Late’ – State of the Climate Report

11 March 2020 (WMO)* —  The year 2020 will be pivotal for climate action if the world is to control ever worsening impacts and indicators of climate change before it is too late, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as he launched WMO’s Statement on the State of the Global Climate.
Mauna Loa CO2 concentrations

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12/03/2020

Linked Dangers

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By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Contrasting Rates of Change

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John Scales Avery

Cultural evolution depends on the non-genetic storage, transmission, diffusion and utilization of information.

The development of human speech, the invention of writing, the development of paper and printing, and finally, in modern times, computers and the Internet: all these have been crucial steps in society’s explosive accumulation of information and knowledge.

Human cultural evolution proceeds at a constantly-accelerating speed, so great in fact that it threatens to shake society to pieces.

The strong contrast between the slow rate of genetic change and the lightning-like, constantly accelerating rate of cultural change means that we face the serious problems of today with an emotional nature that has changed little since our ancestors lived in small tribes, competing for territory on the grasslands of Africa.

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12/03/2020

Five Women Activists Tell Us What Climate Justice Means to Them

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Climate change is a challenge that burdens us all, but not equally. Women and girls are among those affected disproportionately, especially those belonging to marginalized and discriminated communities in the Global South. And yet their voices are rarely heard in decision making forums.

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We want to change the climate of gender inequality.

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