A serious program will reject the talk of “market mechanisms” and pursue measures that directly address both carbon emissions and technological change (more…)
Archive | April, 2011
Bolivia at UN: "We cannot command nature except by obeying her"
Speech of Ambassador Pablo Solón, permanent representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations, on the occasion of the General Assembly interactive dialogue on harmony with nature, April 20, 2011 (more…)
Breaking the real population taboo
Coming soon: a new book by Ian Angus and Simon Butler that exposes the fallacies of the “too many people” explanation for the environmental crisis (more…)
Environmentalists, Health Groups and Unions Condemn Canada's Support of Deadly Asbestos Trade
The Canadian government is paying millions to remove asbestos from the Prime Minister’s home, while he supports export of the same deadly material to third world countries (more…)
Reflections On The Way From Cochabamba To Durban
Speech by Elizabeth Peredo Beltran, Director of Bolivia’s Solon Foundation, to the closing session of the Cochabamba+1 Conference in Montreal, April 17, 2011 (more…)
Rich countries don't cut emissions, they export them
More proof of Kyoto’s failure: emissions transferred to the third world outweigh claimed cuts by more than 300% ++++++++++++ by Duncan Clark Guardian, April 25, 2011 Cuts in carbon emissions by developed countries since 1990 have been cancelled out three times over by increases in imported goods from developing countries such as China, according to […]
Proposed Climate Fund Co-Chair Adds a New Quantum of Global Risk
Trevor Manuel’s long history of collaboration with Washington and London raises prospects for “default” by the industrialized North on payment of climate debt to the impoverished South (more…)
The Flooded Earth
Peter D. Ward. The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps. New York: Basic Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0465009497. 272 pages. (more…)
Communities Devastated by Mining Will Confront Barrick Gold
Once a year, the Directors of the world’s most powerful gold mining company gather in downtown Toronto. Join us and representatives from mining-impacted communities to… Confront Barrick Gold! (more…)
Toronto People’s Assembly for Climate Justice Meets
Meeting marks significant progress in the confidence and maturity of climate justice forces (more…)
James Connolly: We Only Want the Earth
[Quotes and Insights #20] A song written in 1907 by the Irish republican socialist James Connolly, who led the Easter Uprising in Dublin, 95 years ago this week. Connolly was severely injured in the fighting on Easter Weekend 1916. He probably would have died of his wounds, but the British army took him from the […]
Montreal Meeting Shows Growing Support for Climate Justice
Cochabamba+1 — “The first chance in twenty years for such a political discussion embracing forces from both Quebec and [English] Canada” (more…)
Some Reflections on the Montreal Conference
Discussions at the Cochabamba+1 meeting posed a critical question: how can we build a truly inclusive network that incorporates voices from across the climate justice spectrum? (more…)
Tanuro: To stop nuclear, we must end capitalism
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro, author of “l’impossible capitalisme vert,” speaking at a meeting organized by the New Anticapitalist Party, April 1 in Marseille. (en français) (more…)
Fukushima and Capitalist Inhumanity
The Fukushima disaster shows once again that for capitalism, the health and life of workers, neighbouring populations, and the victims of the pollution is just an adjustable variable, like wages (more…)
UK Government Promised Oil Firms Access to Iraq Oil
Secret memos show that before the war was launched, British officials promised oil executives “a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq” (more…)
Climate Activists Confront Anti-Immigrant Fake Greens
Power Shift attendees stood strong against groups like Progressives for Immigration Reform and made it clear that environmentalists stand with immigrants as we begin to face the realities of climate change
Australian Climate Summit Debates Carbon Pricing
Build a people’s power movement through community organizing, building of alliances and mass mobilization! (more…)
The Biggest Chemical Poisoning Crisis in US History
One year after the BP oil spill, experts describe the the impact of the disaster on wildlife, the environment, and human health as “catastrophic” (more…)
Renewable power isn’t just safer than nuclear, it's cheaper
Amory Lovins:“Nuclear is such a slow and costly climate solution, it actually reduces and retards climate protection” (more…)