Cuba prepares for rising sea levels and extreme weather

Island nations face major threats from rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather events. Cuba is moving to protect hundreds of shoreline and inland communities, and is offering to help other Caribbean countries to prepare for and adapt to...

If growth is the problem, why hasn't it been stopped?

Why, in the face of massive evidence that the constant expansion of production and resource-extraction is killing us, do governments and corporations keep shoveling coal for the runaway growth train? Ian Angus introduces Gareth Dale's critique of...

Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessment

Whatever the slipperiness of its meaning, usage, or connotation over time, liberalism is and has always been, at bottom, a defence of capitalism. If we are serious about addressing climate change, it is long past time to move forward beyond...

"We are the one percent!" Cops evict 'polluters'

Video: On March 24, mock corporate representatives erected an illegal occupation -- and the NYPD forces that usually defend the interests of the 1% had to evict the "corporate polluters" from UN grounds

Riots and role models

A UK government report blames last year's riots on the participants' "materialism and consumerism." They couldn't possibly have learned such anti-social values from Britain's ruling class. Could they?

Occupy climate change!

Occupy Wall Street is calling for a month of action leading up to Earth Day on April 22, to draw the Occupy movements further into the struggle to protect the climate, and to show the connections between the power of the 1% and the destruction of...