Hear Ian Angus in Montreal & New York
January 26 and January 28: The co-author of ‘Too Many People?” speaks on the overpopulation myth
Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction
Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger. Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic
A warning for Africa: Carbon trading is a Ponzi scheme
The north’s climate debt to Africa should be paid not through such gambling but in genuine income transfers that reach ordinary people, who are taking the brunt of worsening climate chaos
The only thing green in biodiesel is money
It will take 200 years of continuous biodiesel production to pay off the carbon debt of the Indonesian palm plantations produce it …
Worth Framing: In 1860, John Ruskin defined ‘the real science of political economy’
Why do pale green NGOs support Obama?
The Sierra Club’s advertising campaign and its praise for Obama reveal how little it takes to appease mainstream, corporate-minded environmentalists.
Greedy Lying Bastards
Best movie title of 2012! A new documentary film exposes the environmental destruction, illness and death caused by the fossil fuel industry
A darker shade of green:
REDD and the future of forests
Video: Why REDD programs are false solutions to climate change, and an attack on the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous people
Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from poor people
Since we can’t stop poor people from breeding, let’s build fences to keep them out. And let’s ask the world’s biggest polluters to pay for the fences.
So far, the 21st century has had nine of the ten hottest years on record
So much for the claim that global warming is over …
UN food agencies: in bed with agribusiness
Giant food producers are buying influence, often through supposedly “charitable” foundations, to ensure that the UN shares their market-driven approaches
Worth Framing: Future World Bank president explains why Africa is ‘vastly underpolluted’
Obama’s nominee believes that “the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable”
The largest oil spills in history, 1901 to present
This interactive map shows the largest oil spills from tanker accidents and drilling operations, as well as a number of other notable spills
“Towards Ecosocialism” proposes major shift for New Zealand socialist group
“We must be activists, but not as part of a separate organisation. Rather, our activism should occur as part of existing red and green groups, anywhere there is sufficient overlap in practice to allow us to raise our ecosocialist ideas.”
Michael Parenti: Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth
Video: social critic and noted author Michael Parenti on the reality of capitalism in corporate America.
First Nations: Harper attack means ‘the fix is in’ for tar sands pipeline review
“To imply that our decision against Enbridge has been manipulated is deeply disrespectful of First Nations people, and our many neighbours who have joined our cause and support our decision to refuse this pipeline.”
Haitian peasant leader: Peasant farming can cool the planet; Food sovereignty can solve the climate crisis
La Via Campesina fights industrial food production, which is responsible for more than 50 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions
Worth Framing: Barry Commoner on pollution and production
“If the environment is polluted and the economy is sick, the virus that causes both will be found in the system of production.”
Ecosocialists debate ‘Too Many People?’
Veteran British socialist Alan Thornett has published a highly critical review of the new book Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis. Here is his critique, followed by a reply from the book’s authors, Ian Angus and Simon Butler.
Ecosocialist Notebook 32: How to (re)build the left
Our latest round-up of essential reading for green lefts and left greens features 10 recent articles on how to build an effective socialist movement today