What’s Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
There is something problematic with advocating a 30-hour work week at the beginning of the 21st century: a 30 hour week is not short enough!
In U.S., Warming Will Hit Poor and Minorities Hardest
In the heartland of capitalism, the impact of global warming will be particularly devastating if you are poor, or black, or Latino
Population Control: 10 Reasons Why It’s the Wrong Answer
We need to build stronger links and collaboration with movements for climate justice in the global South – not draw up plans to reduce their numbers
Climate Change Killing 300,000 People a Year
First ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year
The biggest health threat: climate change
The Executive Summary of Managing the Health effects of Climate Change, a report conducted jointly by The Lancet and University College London, UK, published May 13:
Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters
Six of the companies involved in the summit have been nominated for Climate Greenwash Awards because of their failure to live up to their PR spin on tackling climate change.
21st Century Warming to Be Twice the Forecasts
MIT study author: “There’s no way the world can or should take these risks”
The Myth of the Efficient Car
Without divine intervention – which seems to be the basis for most energy reduction schemes – there is simply no way to maintain both the atmosphere and personal transportation. The personal automobile must be abandoned, and quickly.
U.S. Climate Bill: No Emission Reduction Until 2026
The major climate bill now working its way through the US Senate has a fatal flaw: it doesn’t require polluters to stop polluting
Ian Angus Speaks and Writes on Darwin
Articles and speeches by Climate and Capitalism’s editor …
Quotable
From the signature line of an ecosocialist friend:
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” -Utah Phillips.
Please share your favorite (brief) ecosocialist quotation in the Comments section ….
First Nations: Investigate Tar Sands as Cancer Cause
“We want a moratorium for the life and death situation in Fort Chipewyan”
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Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and Copenhagen
How should anti-capitalists intervene in coming IPCC meetings in Copenhagen? Cynthia Kaufman says she wrote this piece for Climate and Capitalism “to incite some serious conversation among anti-capitalists.” She suspects that C&C readers “might be pretty divided on its content.” Of course we encourage reader comments …
Indigenous Summit Shows the Way on Climate Change
“Our peoples have been wounded many times over but we have always had our environment and our land. That is no longer so sure. Climate Change needs to be reframed as a human rights issue.”
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