From Jenna Orkin

Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’

It was interesting to see that Smil got smuggled into that Netflix documentary on Bill Gates, who reads virtually everything Smil produces.  Not a word about growth in the doc but still, maybe a few people will become motivated to investigate.  Not enough to make a difference, of course, or else the reference would have wound up on the cutting room floor.

Deconstructing the Greta Thunberg Phenomenon

Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides

Ambassadors’ conference – Speech by M. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic

Three Mile Island’s last day as a working reactor will be Friday

Oil Set To Spike After Report Saudi Repairs At Abqaiq May Take "Up To Eight Months"

Hong Kong Protesters Ratchet Up Violence; Mall Captured, Subway Stations Attacked

Roughly 600,000 travelers are stranded around the world after British travel provider Thomas Cook declares bankruptcy

130 banks worth $47 trillion adopt new UN-backed climate policies to shift their loan books away from fossil fuels

Netanyahu's grip on power slips after Arab parties endorse his rival for Israeli prime minister

'Köpskam', a new Swedish 'shame of buying' trend, could spread to threaten the world's fashion market

Nike unveiled a big new sustainability initiative as millions around the world prepared to strike for action on climate change

130 Americans die each day from opioid overdoses. Experts are asking why a lifesaving treatment isn't widely available without a prescription.

What HBO's 'Chernobyl' gets right (and wrong) about the world's worst nuclear power plant accident