The BBC’s refusal to broadcast a charity appeal for Gaza will prevent essential aid from reaching the victims of Israel’s assault Related posts… (auto-generated) Pentagon Pollution, 2: Military waste sickens land and people From 'common...
How Climate Change Threatens Food Security
Climate change is a contributory factor to the food price crisis, and its impact on agriculture and food security in developing countries is expected to get more serious. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate...
World Social Forum, Brazil, Jan. 27-Feb. 1
The Ecosocialist International Network will meet in Belem, Brazil, on the day following the World Social Forum, which opens on Tuesday January 27. Here’s an overview of the WSF itself… Related posts… (auto-generated) Bidenfreude: Covid...
'Next Generation' Biofuels: Bursting the New 'Green' Bubble
The massive new demand for agrofuels is escalating deforestation and resulting in conversion of biodiverse and carbon-rich native forests and grasslands into biologically barren and carbon-poor industrial tree plantations and other crop monocultures...
Climate Change Threatens Food Security in Southern Africa
Erratic rainfall has already caused food shortages in southern Africa. Yields will fall in nine percent between now and 2045. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary...
Defenders of the Land Take Action Across Canada
A new organization of grassroots activists who are in the forefront of the fight for Native rights was created at the Defenders of the Land Gathering Related posts… (auto-generated) Pentagon Pollution, 5: The deadly impact of depleted uranium Idle...
Production-Side Environmentalism: Can we produce less and consume more?
Introduction: In this important contribution to the ongoing debate over “individual” versus “social” solutions to global warming and ecological destruction, the editor of Synthesis/Regeneration directly and convincingly...
Mushkegowuk Council Bans Mining on Traditional Lands
“The government needs to recognize that First Nations have the legal and constitutional right to be consulted and now we demand that consent be part of the equation.” Related posts… (auto-generated) James Bay Cree Nation enacts uranium ban Ontario:...
Obama’s Energy Plan: New Policies, New Dangers
Obama’s victory marks a real turn in the energy and climate policy of the United States, one that will be carried out at the expense of American workers and the peoples of the world Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says...
Offsets Under Kyoto: A Dirty Deal for the South
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Poznan Climate Talks: Fiddling While the Earth Burns
The UN Climate Conference failed to achieve any breakthrough towards a global climate deal — a sign not merely of bad timing, but of a flawed system that takes no account of climate justice Related posts… (auto-generated) COP27: Fiddling while the...
Belem Ecosocialist Declaration
This Declaration was prepared by a committee elected at the Paris Ecosocialist Conference of 2007 (Ian Angus, Joel Kovel, Michael Löwy), with the help of Danielle Follett. It will be distributed at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, in January...
Radical New Agenda Needed To Achieve Climate Justice
Members of Climate Justice Now! — a worldwide alliance of more than 160 organisations — have been in Poznan for the past two weeks closely following developments in the UN climate negotiations. This statement is our assessment of the Conference of...
Book Review: Psychology, Culture and Climate Change
Alastair McIntosh. HELL AND HIGH WATER: CLIMATE CHANGE, HOPE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION. Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2008. ISBN 978-1841586229 Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm:...
Canada's Role at UN Climate Talks: "Profoundly Hypocritical"
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4 out of 3: Canada Sets a New 'Fossil of the Day' Record
A year ago, in Bali, Canada’s government embarrassed itself by winning multiple “fossil of the day awards” for its efforts to block concrete action on climate change. This year, in Poznan, Canada continues its “winning” streak … Related posts…...
Climate Change: World War III by Another Name?
“Surely it should be obvious to all that the ruling elites care more about saving capitalism than they do about saving the planet” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm:...
Evo Morales on Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism!
‘Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources’ Related...
Climate refugees — the hidden cost of climate change
For the inhabitants of Pacific and Indian Ocean island nations, climate change is already a devastating reality Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a...
Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
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