Silent Spring helped lay the basis for a radical ecological critique of capitalism. Half a century after first publication it’s a book that has never been so important.
Archive | October, 2012
Frankenstorms, infrastructure, and billionnaire condos
Sandy causes a minor housing problem for the ultra-rich
A reactionary 'skeptic' takes his best shot … and misses
Britain’s leading Conservative newspaper fires a feeble broadside at Climate & Capitalism
Frankenstorms and climate change: How the 1% created a monster
To slow the monster of runaway, fossil-fueled capitalism that is creating Frankenstorms and much more ecological and social devastation, we need a vision for a completely different social system.
Inequality by the numbers
Fewer than 1% of adults own 70% of all wealth
Stop the dash for gas! Activists shut UK power plant
“This action is in defence of the global commons, which are under sustained attack by polluting fossil fuel companies”
The very definition of oil industry madness
Northern Gateway plan: ship oil through an active earthquake zone
Tar sands come to Ontario: No Line 9!
Join me at this important day of resistance, education, and alternatives in Toronto, November 17
Video: Exposing the REDD hoax
The UN promotes a perverse and potentially genocidal forest offset scam
Feminism and the global fight for food sovereignty
Although La Via Campesina was initially formed and led by men, rural women have dramatically increased their participation in all levels and activities of the global peasant organization. A feminist perspective has emerged as a fundamental component of the fight for food and land.
Stop land grabbing for agribusiness in Mozambique
National Peasants Union: “We vehemently condemn any initiative which aims to resettle communities and expropriate the land of peasants to give way to mega farming projects for monocrop production”
Bolivia condemns UN's pro-market biodiversity policy
Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation to CBD: “Everything connected with nature is being commodified, putting at risk the livelihoods of indigenous and local people, and of the common goods.”
Ecosocialist resources, 11
Aboriginal suit challenges tarsands expansion … Global land grab primer … A debate on climate and capital … Harper abets ocean fertilization crimes … BECCS: Yet another geoengineering plan
Thousands rally against B.C. pipelines
“One thing I can say right off the bat is: we’re winning…”
Corporate giants reap billions from hunger
The world’s farms produce more than enough feed everyone well, but big business control of the food system condemns hundreds of millions to constant hunger, and starves 2.5 million children to death every year.
Spell it out: No fracking!
Illawarra, Australia: 3000 activists build a huge human sign
Editors resign from leading environment journal
Statement of collective withdrawal, protesting “a gross violation of academic freedom, scholarly standards, scientific responsibility, and business ethics.”
UK activists expose Canada's tarred reputation
Environment Minister Peter Kent gets an unexpected welcome in London
Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty
An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture.
The biggest mass poisoning in history
77 million Bangladeshis are drinking arsenic-affected water. The arsenic is naturally occurring, but the failure to stop it, and the resulting health disaster, have deep social causes.