Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved, interviewed by Jill Hickson and Simon Cunich for Green Left Weekly and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. (more…)
Archive | July, 2010
Vulture capitalists versus the Global South
Hedge funds, bankers and other speculators are buying everything from farmland to mines across the Global South, fueling exploitation half a world away (more…)
Populationism: A Weapon of Political Conservatives
A promise to rein in population growth is useful for the right wing because it substitutes for the fundamental social and economic changes needed to really deal with these problems. (more…)
How Racist Anti-Immigrant Groups are Trying to Recruit Environmentalists
Xenophobes have launched a cynical campaign to recruit environmentalists to their cause by blaming immigrants for urban sprawl and other environmental problems. (more…)
Via Campesina Meeting Debates Climate Change and Social Change
Speakers at the “National Encounter for Environmental and Social Justice” in Mexico City discussed key aspects of the global environmental crisis and its impact on the countries and peoples of the global south (more…)
41 Countries that Oppose Making Water a Human Right
These are the 41 countries that abstained in the July 28 UN General Assembly vote on Bolivia’s resolution to recognize access to water and sanitation as basic human rights. (more…)
No Room for Doubt: Global Warming is Real
U.S. and U.K. government climate scientists agree: “the climate is unequivocally warming” (more…)
UN Declares Water a Human Right
Speech by Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN, the the General Assembly on July 28. Bolivia’s resolution passed unanimously, but 41 countries abstained. (more…)
Dissecting Those 'Overpopulation' Numbers: Appendix to Part Two: Rates versus Ratios
Part Two of this series considered per capita statistics, which “conceal substantial inequalities within populations and between people.” This supplement summarizes a related argument made by Allan Schnaiberg, who addressed the same issue thirty years ago. (more…)
'Sustainable Population?' Australian PM Targets Immigrants and Refugees
Gillard (and Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott) blame population growth for the decline of living standards, because that lets government off the hook. (more…)
Worse Than Hiroshima: The Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Assault on Fallujah
“To produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened” (more…)
Australian Election: Vote Socialist and Greens, Put Abbott Last!
“Socialist Alliance members are campaigning not only for our own candidates but also for the Greens and other progressive candidates.” (more…)
Carbon Market 'Growth' Mainly Fraudulent, World Bank Report Shows
The global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation. (more…)
Green Gone Wrong
Why cash register solutions to ecological destruction fail again and again (more…)
Climate Action Now! Australian Socialists Adopt Climate Charter
“Change the system, not the climate: A safe climate is not possible unless an informed and mobilised community fights for it.” (more…)
Oil, Civil Liberties, and the G20 Summit
Statement issued by Climate Justice London (formerly Mobilization for Climate Justice-London), in London, Ontario. (more…)
Tar Sands: What Canadian Politicians are Hiding
As Climate and Capitalism previously reported, Conservatives and Liberals in Canada’s Parliament have secretly agreed to suppress a report on the Alberta Tar Sands. Here’s what they don’t want you to know … (more…)
Is a Population Policy Needed to Protect New Zealand's Environment?
We need a lot of changes to get to an egalitarian and sustainable society, but is population policy one of them? (more…)
Why Pricing Carbon Won't Solve the Climate Crisis
The idea that markets are the most efficient way to deal with environmental problems has long been a cornerstone of neoliberal economics. But no new market or tax regime has restructured an entire economy in any country. Not ever. (more…)
June Temperatures Set Global Records
The trend to a warmer world is now incontrovertible … 2010 is on course to be the warmest year since records began in 1880 (more…)