How clean is it? It’s Clean Coal clean!
A video response to coal industry greenwash.
Agenda Announced for ‘World at a Crossroads’ Conference
One of the most important annual events for the left in the Pacific and Asia region. Climate change and ecosocialism is a key focus of this year’s conference.
New Data Shows IPCC Understated Warming
New data shows greenhouse emissions are far greater than the worst-case scenario in the UN body’s 2007 report
Film: Tipping Points Ahead
Presenting Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip, a short film about climate change and capitalism, by British animator Leo Murray.
Australia’s Bush Fires and Climate Change
What are the ecological and climate consequences of the bush fires that have devastated the state of Victoria?
Harper & Obama:
Clean Energy Dialogue or Carbon Capture Shellgame?
The Obama-Harper plan to invest in Carbon Capture and Storage technology is a very expensive fraud. Both governments are desperate to avoid effective action against dirty oil and dirty coal.
‘Liberal’ College Purges Ecosocialist Activist
Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature and a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network, has been teaching at Bard College for 21 years. Now the college is firing him for his public opposition to Zionism
Trailer: The Age of Stupid
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, which will have its world premiere in London on March 15 and then be released in UK cinemas on March 20, followed by other countries.
Environmental Crises Threaten 25% Cut in World Food Production
UN report: Unless more intelligent and creative management is brought to the world’s agricultural systems, the 2008 food crisis may foreshadow an even bigger crisis in the years to come
Climate Emergency: A Crisis of Democracy
The government, which is more interested in commerce than humanity, is protecting big polluters instead of people.
Hugo Blanco on ‘ecosocialism’ and indigenous struggles
At the recent Ecosocialist International Network meeting in Brazil, there was considerable discussion about whether the word “ecosocialism” should be used in Latin America. Concerned that translation difficulties may have contributed to some misunderstandings, the Peruvian indigenous peasant leader Hugo Blanco sent this message to clarify his views.
Ecosocialist International Network Meets in Belem
Second meeting is larger, with strong representation from the global south
Socialist Views on Australia’s Bushfire Crisis
The dramatic and shocking scenes of the Australian bushfires could not fail to have moved anyone watching them on the news. Here are two commentaries by Australian socialists
Australia: Climate Summit unites new environment movement
Led by a new generation of young people whose politics have not been shaped by the old movement, the new movement represents a return to radical activism. They are determined, angry, savvy and brave.
Climate change means ‘unprecedented hardship’ for 33 fish-dependent nations
People in the tropics and subtropics will suffer most, because fish are so important in their diets and because they have limited capacity to develop other sources of income and food
Darwin Day: What to Read on February 12 (and after)
“It is not too great an exaggeration to claim that On the Origin of Species was, along with Das Kapital, one of the two most significant works in the intellectual history of the nineteenth century.” – Robert M. Young
WSF: We won’t pay for the crisis. The rich must pay!
Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements at the World Social Forum 2009, Belem, Brazil.
A Canadian Ecosocialist at the World Social Forum
Cy Gonick, publisher and co-ordinating editor of Canada’s longest-running left-wing magazine, Canadian Dimension, was in Belem, Brazil, last week, for the World Social Forum. The following are excerpts from his emails from Belem.
World at a Crossroads: Sydney in April
Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, will be a featured speaker at the World at a Crossroads conference in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009