“The impact on the poor in developing countries who spend a high proportion of their income on food can be devastating.” OECD News Release, June 17. 2011 Higher food prices and volatility in commodity markets are here to stay, according...
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
US nuclear expert: “We are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man’s-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square...
Interview: Officials cover up the dangers at Fukushima
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Deep ecology versus ecosocialism
Part 1. Some people believe that deep ecology is not just compatible with ecosocialism, but a way to improve it. That’s a profound misconception that ignores deep ecology’s anti-human core. +++++++++++++ by Ian Angus The following was...
La Via Campesina to G20: Stop the land grabs!
The massive acquisition of agricultural land by transnational companies that has been taking place over the past years has multiplied farmer evictions and reduced the capacity of many African, Asian and Latin American countries and communities to...
Video: Bolivia explains how to close the emissions gap
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Socialist arguments for nuclear power
Climate and Capitalism has frequently published articles by greens and socialists arguing that nuclear power is innately dangerous and must be stopped. Below, two veteran socialists argue that the anti-nuke position is based on “fear and...
Canada's "rogue page" speaks at anti-Harper rally
Last week, Senate page Brigitte DePape challenged Canada’s new majority Conservative government by raising a “Stop Harper” sign on the floor of the Senate during the speech from the throne. Yesterday, she spoke a rally in Ottawa...
The World Bank's role in fueling catastrophic climate change
“The World Bank claims to provide leadership on climate change but, as shown in this report, it is a major funder of dirty fossil fuel projects, carbon trading and mega dams. These initiatives deepen poverty and push us closer to the brink of a...
Jonathan Neale: Stop Global Warming – Change the World
Video: Jonathan Neale, novelist, playwright, historian and political activist, lead-author of the Million Climate Jobs report, introducing his book, Stop Global Warming – Change the World
Carbon pricing: A smokescreen for inaction on climate change
Once again ordinary people are being told they must sacrifice while markets are used to guarantee profitability for business. The debates on carbon taxes, are yet another round of prevarication and mendacity that delay necessary change while we...
Stand up for Africa! Stand up for climate justice!
For Africa and its peoples in particular, governments meeting at this year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Durban must end years of unacceptable vacillation, and meet their moral, historical and legal obligations and...
Bolivian ambassador speaks out against water privatization
“We believe it would be suicide to follow the path of privatization and commercialization of water and public services.” Speech by Ambassador Pablo Solon, Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, at the United...
Video: The neoliberal assault on Egypt's small farmers
Pity the Nation. A documentary film by journalist and activist Philip Rizk, on the effect of neo-liberal policies on farmers and the food price crisis in Egypt, produced by the newspaper Masry al-youm. Related posts… (auto-generated) Egyptian regime...
Coal seam gas: dirtier than coal, worse than shale
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Vandana Shiva: The great land grab, India's war on farmers
“These land wars have serious consequences for our nation’s democracy, our peace and our ecology, our food security and rural livelihoods. The land wars must stop if India is to survive ecologically and democratically.” Related...
Putting a price on nature: a destructive delusion
The UK government’s assessment of the “value” of nature is pure reductionist gobbledegook, dressed up in the language of objectivity and reason. It delivers the natural world into the hands of those who would destroy it. by George...
The Socialist Alternative – two reviews
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Developing countries promise bigger emission cuts than the richest
A new study for Oxfam reveals that developing countries are pledging to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases by more than developed countries. Oxfam estimates that over 60 per cent of emissions cuts by 2020 are likely to be made by developing...
To be realistic we must be heretics
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