While millions of Kenyans go hungry, giant plantations use valuable farmland and declining water supplies to grow flowers for European markets Related posts… (auto-generated) Conservation as genocide: REDD versus Indigenous rights in Kenya Kenya...
What is Ecosocialism?
Radio Adelaide (Australia) interviews Climate & Capitalism editor Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World Unions and the climate justice...
Report: Get forests out of carbon trading; Stop REDD
Including forests in cap-and-trade plans undermine indigenous peoples’ rights, while doing nothing to cut emissions Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Kenya evicts Indigenous people for...
Too Many People? Interview on commercial radio
Ian Angus interviewed on Magic 107.5 in Cleveland, Ohio Related posts… (auto-generated) Radio Interview: Is Capitalism Killing Our Climate? In Ohio, don’t drink the water! CBC radio gives a platform to populationism George Monbiot Interview:...
In UK, Canada poses as 'Friendly Green Oil Giant'
Canada’s Natural Resources Minister named “Greenwash Propagandist of the Year” for promoting Tar Sands at London School of Economics Related posts… (auto-generated) Tar Sands: Is Canada a 'resource colony'? Doctors warn:...
Climate change will trap hundreds of millions in danger zones
New study shows that migration away from danger areas is only part of the problem; many more will likely move into areas that are highly vulnerable to catastrophic change Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate...
Australia: Grassroots campaign slams coal seam gas fracking
“The stop CSG campaign here is the broadest, deepest and most democratic campaign the Illawarra has seen for many years. Related posts… (auto-generated) Australia: Country and city unite against fracking Activist exposes the lies of...
Scientists understate climate change impacts
New scientific findings are more than 20 times likely to show that global climate disruption is “worse than previously expected” rather than “not as bad as previously expected” Related posts… (auto-generated) Scientists issue...
Doctors warn: 'Climate change poses an immediate, growing and grave threat to health'
“It will often not be possible to adapt meaningfully to these changes, and the economic cost will be enormous. As in medicine, prevention is the best solution.” Related posts… (auto-generated) ‘Climate change is the single biggest...
How the leading U.S. climate change deniers are poisoning people
Is a Koch Industries factory getting away with murder? While the brothers finance climate change denial and wage war against safety precautions, their factory is dumping millions of gallons of wastewater into streams that flow near a small rural...
Carbon trading: speculation by design
A new report shows why the European Union’s effort to impose rules against fraud in carbon is doomed to fail … again Related posts… (auto-generated) Carbon trading has failed: scrap the ETS now Fraud and scams in Europe's Emissions...
We are the 99.9998%!
Canadian Business magazine has published its annual list of the 100 richest people in Canada. Jim Stanford describes the 0.0002% of Canadians who hold personal wealth over one billion dollars Progressive Economics Forum, October 14, 2011 There are...
Wiebo's War: Documentary opens across Canada
David York’s acclaimed feature film explores one man’s controversial battle against gas development Related posts… (auto-generated) Video: Canadian youth activist opens People's Plenary in Rio Part One – Population Where...
Review: What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism
Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster. What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism: A citizen’s guide to capitalism and the environment. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011 Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says...
International conference focuses on social causes of climate change
Ecosocialists, unionists and activists gather in Melbourne, Australia, to share ideas and experiences on the struggle to save the world from capitalism Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land...
Enough is never enough (for those who have too much)
Socialism can only be built on the basis of abundance, but abundance should not be confused with the infinite growth of commodities. Working people need a real alternative economic strategy, one that recognizes when enough is enough. Related posts…...
New film examines Venezuela’s food revolution
This film premiered at the Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne, Australia, last week. Highly recommended. Growing Change: A Journey into Venezuela’s Food Revolution follows filmmaker Simon Cunich‘s journey to understand...
What is to be done?
How to make an ecosocialist revolution
Edited text of keynote presentation by Ian Angus to the Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne, Australia, October 2, 2011
Just transition, elections, and the rights of Mother Earth
Video clips from the question period following Ian Angus’s Keynote talk at the Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne, Australia, October 1, 2011. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change...
Ottawa tar-sands protest: reports and impressions
Civil disobedience action was a step forward for the movement, but labor and the climate movement need a clear program and action strategy Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Unions and the...