How can Obama suggest that the test for approving the XL pipeline is whether it accelerates our ride to climate hell, death, and disaster?
Archive | February, 2014
How the U.S. exports global warming
While Obama talks of a clean, green future, America’s oil and coal corporations are racing to position the country as the planet’s top dirty-energy dealer.
The contradictions and limits of localism
Can co-ops and transition towns transform the world? The author of No Local explains why local counter-institutions won’t lead to revolutionary change.
Green must be more than organic food and driving a Prius
Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph says that if we don’t connect it to race and class, then environmentalism will never win a hearing from people who face racism and poverty every day.
Reinvent transport for reduced emissions and more jobs
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions will throw millions of people out of work! That claim has made many working people reluctant to support action to slow climate change. But is it true?
Ecosocialist resources, 49
Articles and talks on challenges facing the left today — Why I’m an ecosocialist; From occupy to climate justice; Genes and genius; Ecosocialist brakes; Environmental unionism; Relaunching Ecosocialism Canada
Ecosocialism Canada: A new activist resource
Ecosocialism Canada has a new editor, a new design, a new web address, and a renewed focus on campaigning against capitalist ecocide in Canada. You can help make it an essential movement resource.
Corporation polluters make ‘sustainable’ a dirty word
A list of the world’s 100 ‘most sustainable companies’ is packed with firms that profit from trashing the planet and are driving us toward climate disaster.
Ecosocialist Resources, 48
Ending the world; Fossil fuel subsidies; Monarch butterflies; Methane and climate change
A new stage for ecosocialist unity and action
System Change Not Climate Change adopts plans to reach out to other groups, strengthen environmental activism, and work with capitalism’s victims
Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
“The more the capitalist has accumulated, the more is he able to accumulate.”