“If the environment is polluted and the economy is sick, the virus that causes both will be found in the system of production. And that is where their cure can be found as well.”
Latest Posts
Do carbon offsets reduce emissions?
Some sincere environmentalists believe that markets in carbon offsets will slow climate change. In fact, as Chris Lang of REDD-Monitor explains, carbon offsets are at best a zero sum game.
'The greatest environmentalist of the 20th century'
Articles and quotes honoring and remembering Barry Commoner, 1917-2012
A 1970 call for mass action against polluters
From the archives: "We must build a movement which can combat pollution not only on the street and in the factories, but in solidarity with every other struggle against the ruling class."
Barry Commoner: 'Pollution begins in the boardroom, not the bedroom'
When most writers were blaming individual behaviour or overpopulation for pollution, this pioneering radical environmentalist exposed the role of capitalism and profit.
Agnotology
Counting the lies told by lying liars at News Corp.
Climate change vs food security: a bleak future for the poor
For developing countries, a future of more frequent and intense extreme weather, reducing food availability and raising prices, means a downward spiral of worsening food insecurity and deepening poverty.
Carbon trade markets collapsing
Carbon trading was supposed to save the climate, but it's all hot air
The Great White North isn't green
Canada and climate change by the numbers
A nuanced analysis of China's environmental crises
Judith Shapiro has laid out well the enormous environmental challenges facing the people of China If there is to be a sustainable future, they will have to be at the forefront of fighting for it.