Monbiot: Canada threatens the well-being of the world
“Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.”
Copenhagen and Seattle: From climate denialism to activist alliances
We need to learn the main lesson from Seattle: by walking out and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress
Ecuador: Dirty War in the Amazon
In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen?
The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy
To doubt the greenhouse effect or to doubt major anthropogenic climate change is about as sensible as doubting anthropogenic lung cancer
Is China to blame for climate change?
Western rulers are attempting to deflect responsibility by obscuring their part in pushing up China’s carbon emissions
Climate Scientists: Commonwealth Should Suspend Canada
“If the Commonwealth is serious about holding its members to account, then threatening the lives of millions of people in developing countries should lead to the suspension of Canada’s membership immediately”
Climate Change Already Ravaging Africa
The continent accounts for just four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but suffers the most from its effects.
Climate Scientists: Delay risks irreversible damage
In a new report, ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations of only a few years ago.
Ecosocialist Resources, 3
- Why we need ecosocialism
- How socialists should fight against climate change
- Eco-Malthusianism
New Ecosocialist Party in Switzerland
‘The Left’ aims to challenge Social Democrats and Greens
The Origin of The Origin
November 24, 2009: Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s masterwork, On The Origin of Species
Socialists, the Environment and Ecosocialism:
A View from South Africa
From a paper presented by Trevor Ngwane to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation conference on “The Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives,” Randburg, South Africa, November 19, 2009.
Naomi Klein on Climate Debt and Climate Rage
Why rich countries should pay reparations to poor countries for the climate crisis
The Dark History of Population Control
Book Review: Matthew Connelly: Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008
Socialism, Democracy and Movement-Building
Editor’s note: Beyond discussing the causes and implications of ecological destruction, ecosocialists need to consider what kind of movement is needed to transform society. This article, by a leading member of the British group Socialist Resistance, offers some trenchant criticisms of the “really existing left” in capitalist countries today.
World on Course for Catastrophic 6° Rise
Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true
Friedman Fantasizes about Green Capitalism
The mentality that “natural capitalism” can save the world will lead to a the “Fortress World” scenario, the rich, walled in enclaves, periodically breached by the world’s poor
Food Summit Fails Before It Starts
Despite record-high harvests, the number of hungry people continues to rise – and the world’s rulers do nothing
Carbon Trading: A Spectacular Failure
Free-market ideologues still trumpet the virtues of carbon trading, but a host of NGOs, businesspeople and even government bodies now admit that we got it badly wrong.
Most Vulnerable Nations Seek Climate Justice
Final Draft of declaration issued November 11 in the Maldives, by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, comprising the 11 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change: Maldives, Kiribati, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados and Bhutan.
Update on “The Global Fight for Climate Justice”
Canada’s leading publisher and distributor of progressive books will publish a North American edition of The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction.
Ecosocialist Resources, 2
More essential reading: A hard-hitting comic book about carbon trading, a new look at William Morris, and a permaculture expert on what we can learn from Cuba’s ecological footprint.
Climate Talks on the Road to Nowhere
The seeds of the current impasse were planted in Bali and nourished in subsequent negotiations
Denmark Aims to Criminalize Climate Protests
As the Copenhagen climate summit approaches, the Danish government is rushing through a harsh new law that allows preventive detention, increases fines and extends sentences for demonstrators
The Looming Debacle in Copenhagen
The major capitalist powers are blocking the road to a global climate treaty … and preparing to blame China for the failure