Climate Justice Book Launch: Ottawa, March 23
Join us at the Ottawa launch of The Global Fight for Climate Justice edited by Ian Angus.
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Climate Festival: Lisbon, March 26-27
Join us at IS THE CLIMATE SICK OF US?, a conference and festival in Lisbon, March 26-27, organized by Portugal’s Left Bloc and the parties of the European Left
‘I=PAT’ means nothing, proves nothing
Quoting a mathematical formula might look smart, but algebra is only meaningful when it is given a meaningful content.
Earth Hour, Corporate Sponsors and Burning Planets
Climate activists have to channel popular concern about climate change into rebellion, not tokenism
Canadian Government Muzzles Climate Scientists
Top climate experts must get approval before speaking to the press
New Film Exposes Dirty Canadian Oil
This is the trailer for Dirty Oil, a film about the Alberta Tar Sands that premiers this week in 25 theatres across the UK. It’s narrated by Canadian actress Neve Campbell.
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Ecosocialist Resources, 10
- What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
- The Wrong Kind of Green
- Four Nuclear Myths
- The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
- Sanitation Crisis in Haiti
Study exposes massive outsourcing of emissions by rich countries
New study reveals scale of “outsourced emissions” Around a third of industrialised countries carbon emissions are exported to developing nations
Fidel: The Dangers That Threaten Us
“The most astounding aspect of our era is the contradiction between imperialist bourgeois ideology and the survival of the species…. While the horizon of knowledge is extending to limits never imagined, the closer the abyss into which humanity is being led is approaching.”
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Activists Push to Save Greenpeace
Putting a Canadian Liberal in charge of its international climate change program could put one of the world most successful environmental organizations on the fast track to corporate collaboration
FI Supports Cochabamba Peoples’ Summit on Climate
A resolution adopted by the World Congress of the Fourth International, held in February in Belgium
Women’s Rights, Population and Climate Change:
The Debate Continues
Should climate activists and feminists support campaigns to slow population growth? Laurie Mazur says that alliance will strengthen the movement. Ian Angus strongly disagrees …
Murray Bookchin on Growth and Consumerism
Perhaps because he was an anarchist, the works of Murray Bookchin are rarely read by ecosocialists today. That’s a pity, because he was one of 20th century’s most insightful writers on environmental politics.
Only CO2 Emissions Can Explain Global Warming
Deniers take note: No possible natural phenomenon could have caused the huge rise in temperatures experienced in last half-century
3,000 Companies Cause $2.2 Trillion in Environmental Damage – Every Year
The cost of corporate ecocide is greater than the national economies of all but seven countries …