For A Worse Tomorrow
Journalist Dahr Jamail stresses the severity of the climate crisis—and asks everyone to start acting like it.
Cover by Ranime Fouda
Journalist Dahr Jamail stresses the severity of the climate crisis—and asks everyone to start acting like it.
Across the Arab World and the Middle East, young people are mobilizing to raise climate change awareness.
Should climate change continue unaddressed, it is estimated that of the additional 30–170 million people who are likely to suffer from malnutrition or under-nutrition globally in the coming years, three-quarters will be in Africa.
Developing countries see the call for equal actions with their richer counterparts as serving the interests of the latter.
Inefficient water management exacerbates water insecurity in the MENA region, already the area most vulnerable to the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis. Building adaptive capacity is critical to ensure national and individual water security.
In the simplest terms, the answer is: it depends on who perceives it as a threat, and what “anxiety” means to them.
With militaries’ locked-in fossil fuel systems and looming climate chaos, the arms industry continues to take advantage of nefarious profit opportunities.
The African continent will be the most severely affected by climate change. Within Africa, the least developed and politically unstable nations like South Sudan are likely to be the hardest hit. What can be done, and who should be at the forefront of these changes?
A warming planet places the heaviest burden on the countries and people least responsible for climate destruction. Survival necessitates justice, redress, and structural change.
As vaccines offer hope for a world after Covid, experts warn that in many ways, the fight is only beginning.
To make clean water and sanitation truly accessible to local communities across the continent, African institutions must take the lead in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities they face.
A Global Green New Deal would equitably prevent dangerous levels of warming, but it must be implemented soon.