“Climate Justice” Reviewed
Socialist Voice has reviewed The Global Fight for Climate Justice under the very appropriate headline “Red is the New Green.” Reviewer Jeff White writes:
A Call to Climate Action
The following call to climate action was developed last Fall during a meeting of nearly 100 activists from organizations around the world who came together in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss a mobilization on climate change to coincide with the 2009 UN climate conference that begins in Copenhagen on November 30, 2009.
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Climate Negotiations Understate Adaptation Costs
Copenhagen negotiations “could end up with a false deal that fails to cover the costs of adaptation to climate change.”
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Climate & Capitalism Seminar, London, Sept 12
C&C editor Ian Angus is the keynote speaker at a one day seminar in London, England on September 12. Register in advance and save 33% ….
Cree Condemn Tar Sands at British Climate Camp
First Nations denounce UK companies for supporting “devastating effects on our environment and communities”
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Plantations as sinks: CDM fraud at its worst
Creating tree plantations is no way to cut emissions
The False Promise of Energy Efficiency
The popular concept of energy efficiency, as an uncoordinated amalgam of individualistic life style choices, will only worsen the crises of energy exhaustion and global warming.
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Nile Delta: “The rising sea will conquer our lands.”
Even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
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Countdown to Copenhagen
UN leader: “If we continue at this rate we’re not going to make it”
C&C’s All-time Top 10 Posts
These are the ten most-read posts on Climate and Capitalism since we switched to the WordPress platform in January 2007.
‘Green’ B.C. Liberals Subsidize Gas and Oil Expansion
The “environmentalist” establishment hailed British Columbia’s Liberal government as the greenest in North America when it implemented a minuscule carbon tax. What do they say now?
Carbon Offsets: A Dangerous Distraction
Friends of the Earth explain why offsetting is a dangerous distraction from the urgent business of decarbonizing the world’s economies. CDM and related offset plans can’t be reformed: they must be scrapped.
London Meeting Aug. 27: Massacre in the Amazon
“The Amazon struggle must continue, demanding respect for the rain forest”
Peterloo: Ye are many – they are few
Today is the 190th anniversary of the day when English cavalry attacked a peaceful crowd of 60,000 in Manchester, gathered to call for democratic rights. The event is remembered as the Peterloo, a word that combines the location of the attack, St. Peters Field, with an ironic reference to the recent British military victory at Waterloo.
Australian Emissions Trading Plan Rejected
Some environmentalists view the rejection of the Australian Labor government’s emissions trading plan as a defeat for green politics. Socialists disagree.
Audio: Waste and Water in Alberta’s Tar Sands
The Alberta Tar Sands is the world’s greatest environmental crime. In addition to wrecking the landscape and generating huge quantities of greenhouse gases, the industry generates a staggering amount of toxic waste that threatens catastrophic destruction to rivers and ground water.
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Greens
Another case of the inevitable fate that follows when Green parties adopt the creed of “neither Left nor Right, but Green”
Peru plans more Amazon oil auctions
Despite protests by indigenous people, the head of government energy agency says that this fall they will auction still more blocks traditional indigenous lands to oil and gas companies
Ecology and Socialism: Inseparable Revolutions
Book Review. The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, by John Bellamy Foster. Monthly Review Press, 2009.
Green Left to Honour Peterloo Martyrs
This month the English Green Left will meet in Manchester. The meeting is timed to coincide with the 190th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, one of the most significant events in British radical history.
A Song for Reds and Greens
Robb Johnson kindly allowed me to include the lyrics of his song ‘Red and Green’ in my new book, The Global Fight for Climate Justice.
Capitalism or a habitable planet – you can’t have both
We somehow missed this article when it was published over two years ago, but what it says remains absolutely true: the existing system is unsustainable by its very nature. It can’t be fixed.
Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health
Book Review: Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health. by Hans Baer & Merrill Singer. Left Coast Press, 2009.
Rich Countries’ Carbon Debt: $23 trillion
Developed countries would need to reduce their emissions by 213% by 2050, for developing countries to maintain their current per capita emission level
A not-so-hot book on global warming
Book Review. Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada (2009)