Miércoles, 16 de diciembre de 2015 (Continuación)

Flash floods and landslides ravaged northern India in June 2013. Credit Manan Vatsyayana/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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The momentous climate accord reached last weekend in Paris recognizes three powerful and unyielding economic and ecological trends. These were prompted by the collision of the resource-abundant development approach of the 20th century with the increasingly dire environmental conditions of the 21st.

By far, the most important has been that Mother Earth is fuming. Hurricanes have drowned two American cities in recent years. Mammoth wildfires have raced across the American West. Toxic algae contaminate drinking water drawn from warmer and more polluted rivers and lakes all over the world. In June 2013, a flood that scientists linked to climate change killed thousands of people in Uttarakhand, India, and wrecked that Himalayan state’s hydropower sector.…  Seguir leyendo »

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“France’s fascist uprising” screamed the front-page headline of a London newspaper following the National Front’s victory in the first round of the regional elections on Dec. 6. “Trump is a fascist,” asserts the combative neocon commentator Max Boot (adding “And that’s not a term I use loosely or often”). “We are here faced by fascists,” Hilary Benn, the Labour Party’s foreign affairs spokesman, declares to the House of Commons, by way of arguing for British intervention in Syria. “And what we know about fascists,” he went on, “is that they need to be defeated.”

Anyone who puzzles over these philippics isn’t alone, and the problem is not new.…  Seguir leyendo »