“I just don’t see how their bitter philosophy has any place in a party which stands for social and ecological justice …” (more…)
Archive | February, 2011
Malthusian Rebranding
Optimum Population Trust becomes Population Matters (more…)
Climate Change Models Are 'Dangerously Optimistic'
UK climate scientist Kevin Anderson warns that computer models predicting future climate change are underestimating emissions and overestimating technology (more…)
The Real Cost of Coal
Harvard Medical School: Using coal costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year in health costs, environmental destruction and climate change (more…)
4 Degrees Hotter: The Adaptation Trap
“Can, and how would, we live in a world 4 degrees Celsius warmer?” is no longer an abstract question, but one that has become the subject of debate in scientific circles, and now in the community. (more…)
Mohawk Communities Condemn Nuclear Waste Shipments
The Mohawk Councils of Kahnawà:ke, Tyendinaga and Akwesasne have issued a jointed statement rejecting the planned shipment of nuclear waste through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway system. (more…)
Ecuador Court Rules Against Chevron, Issues $8 Billion Fine
A court in Ecuador has ruled in favor of the residents of Ecuador’s Amazon region who have spent the last 18 years seeking damages for crude oil pollution. (more…)
Video: Climate Justice Declaration from World Social Forum 2011
For Days of Action October 12, 2011 (more…)
Canada's Drive to Kill U.S. and European Clean Energy Policies
Canada isn’t just exporting dirty oil; it’s exporting dirty policies. This report details the campaign to open markets everywhere to the tar sands’ dirty oil. (more…)
This is what plutonomy looks like, 2
Net worth, measured as assets less liabilities—is skewed heavily, not only to the rich, but to the richest of the rich. (more…)
Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements, WSF/Dakar
The World Social Forum met in Dakar, Senegal, February 7-11. This declaration was adopted by the Assembly of Social Movements. (more…)
Lester Thurow: Why good capitalist decisions mean ecological suicide
[Quotes and Insights #17] This quote is particularly telling because the author is trying save capitalism from itself. Nowhere is capitalism’s time horizon problem more acute than in the area of global environmentalism … What should a capitalistic society do about longrun environmental problems such as global warming or ozone depletion? … Using capitalist decision […]
The Global Fight for Climate Justice
This review appears in the current issue of the journal Socialist Studies, and is republished here with the author’s permission. (more…)
This is what plutonomy looks like
The disproportionate share of income taken by the very rich in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada led analysts at Citigroup to define those countries as plutonomies — economies “where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few.” (more…)
Who's Blocking U.S. Action on Climate Change?
Rolling Stone names the top 12 most powerful opponents of restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions … (more…)
Biology’s Bomb: Graphing 'Explosive' Population Growth in Cold War Textbooks
How supposedly objective textbooks made the “population bomb” as real and scary to school children in the 1960s as the H-bombs that drove them under their desks. (more…)