Most heads of state aren’t even bothering to show up in Cancún. Ordinary people must step onto the stage of history to organize to force the change that we want to see and that is so urgently needed. (more…)
Archive | November, 2010
Cancun Eyewitness #1: Checkpoints and Exhibits
Climate and Capitalism will publish regular reports from the climate change meetings in Cancun, Mexico (more…)
Capitalism is a doomsday machine
Video: Derek Wall of the Green Left speaking at the Coalition of Resistance conference in London, November 27 ——————
Eyewitness Report: Tar sands tailings are poisoning muskeg and First Nations community
“Here we were, standing on traplines and hunting trails that remain in use by members of the Fort McKay First Nation, as the toxic waste covered many hectares with an oily ooze.” (more…)
How the Alberta tar sands work
It takes 185 gallons of water, 2 tons of soil, 700-1200 cubic feet of natural gas and 170 pounds of greenhouse gases to make one barrel of crude … (more…)
Climate scientists: One billion people will lose their homes
If drastic action to cut emissions isn’t taken soon, a billion people will lose their homes and three billion will lose access to clean water (more…)
Video: The Rights of Pachamama
An emotional and inspiring video that was created as a joint project between five indigenous communities in Peru with the message: ‘We wish from out hearts that these rights we are proposing will be added to and that people across the world recover their harmony with our Mother Earth.’ (more…)
UN: Emission Promises Won't Stop Dangerous Climate Change
Even if all the promises are kept — and that’s unlikely— global warming will pass the danger threshhold in this century (more…)
European Assembly for Climate Justice, Nov. 26-29
Program details, practical information, and venues are now available. Join us in Brussels for 4 days of debate, discussion, planning, films, cultural events, and action. (more…)
Most Canadians Support Climate Justice Now
Poll finds strong support across Canada for the Cochabamba Agenda … but the government is ignoring public opinion and supporting environmental destruction. Only mass action for climate justice can win the changes that are urgently needed now (more…)
Cancun: The Battle Lines are Drawn
Success at Cancun will depend on how loudly the voices for climate justice are heard and the contribution that makes to arousing wider resistance (more…)
G20 pushes business as usual, Small farmers demand system change
Failed institutions that have impoverished people the world over are being promoted as the solution to the current crisis (more…)
UN warns: Food prices soar in 2010, higher in 2011
International food import bills could pass the one trillion dollar mark in 2010 with prices of most commodities up sharply (more…)
Canadian group scapegoats immigrants for environmental degradation
New anti-immigration “center” has strong ties to the ruling Conservative Party (more…)
Toronto Teach-In Discusses Cochabamba Agenda for Climate Justice
Actvists discuss concepts far removed from the usual media babble about cap-and-trade and carbon offsets – ideas that are unfamiliar to many on the left (more…)
Evo Morales: A letter to the indigenous peoples of the world
While we assert that capitalism is the cause of global warming and the destruction of forests, rainforests and Mother Earth, they seek to expand capitalism to the commoditization of nature with the word “green economy” (more…)
ALBA nations declare: Nature has no price!
Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela declare: “Nature is our home and is the system of which we form a part, and therefore it has infinite value, but it does not have a price and is not for sale.” (more…)
Responding to the Cochabamba challenge
Some 125 people took part in the teach-in Lessons from Bolivia: Building a Global Movement for Climate Justice in Toronto on Saturday November 13. The meeting was sponsored by nearly 40 organizations, including unions, solidarity campaigns and environmental groups. The following is the text (lightly edited) of the talk given by Climate and Capitalism editor […]
The World Food Crisis: Causes and Solutions
Video: Peter Rosset presents the Food Sovereignty vision defended by La Via Campesina (more…)
Malthus With a Computer, 2010
An important new study concludes that reducing population growth will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is less here than meets the eye (more…)