Issue 437 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
November 2010
November 2010
Our natural world is being increasingly denatured. There go the animals: extinctions are now up to a thousand times the natural background rate, and between 150 and 200 species become extinct every 24 hours. Watch out, plants: a fifth of your sort, up to 100,000 species, could also soon be extinct. Some 80,000 acres of rainforest vanish off the face of the earth – each day.
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Okinawans battle to close US bases
Okinawa currently hosts 75 per cent of US military facilities in Japan
Are public service cuts justified?
Banker Dan Mobley goes head to head with tax justice campaigner John Christensen.
Margaret Atwood
The legendary Canadian author talks to Rowenna Davis about activism, women and breaking the male stronghold over ‘serious’...
A sea returns to life, a sea slowly dies
Paul Lauener’s stirring report from the Aral Sea, scene of both environmental miracle and disaster.
Why are we dancing round reality?
If the Age of Enlightenment was about proving certainties, we’re entering the time of unravelment, when everything falls apart.
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