True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands.
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Canada's tar sands: The true cost of dirty oil
Video: What does massive environmental devastation look like? In this powerful and moving presentation, photographer Garth Lenz shows the world's largest and most destructive industrial project and shares his stunning photos of the ecosystems and human communities that are under attack...
Great Lakes have lost 71% of winter ice cover
Need proof of global warming? Ice cover on the Great Lakes fell nearly three-quarters between 1973 and 2010.
Carbon Blood Money in Honduras
A bloody struggle in Central America shows how schemes supposedly designed to offset carbon emissions can destroy lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries.
Welcome to the new Climate & Capitalism
Today we launch an upgraded and completely redesigned Climate & Capitalism. I’m very excited about the transformation, which is part of the alliance with Monthly Review that was announced
Richard Levins: Capitalism, hunger and health
[Quotes and Insights #28] “The continuation of hunger in the modern world is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to feed people. Rather, agriculture in the capitalist world is directly concerned with profit and only indirectly with feeding people. “Similarly...
Paul Sweezy: Capitalism versus the environment
[Quotes and Insights #27] Since there is no way to increase the capacity of the environment to bear the burdens placed on it, it follows that the adjustment must come entirely from the other side of the equation. And since the disequilibrium has already reached dangerous proportions, it also...
Why Marx Was Right
Terry Eagleton. Why Marx Was Right. Yale University Press, 2011 reviewed by Dave Kellaway International Viewpoint “So you’re for the revolutionary Marxist overthrow of parliamentary democracy then.” This was the question flung by presenter Andrew Neil in a discussion on the BBC’s Daily Politics...
Bertolt Brecht: A song about carbon pricing
[Quotes and Insights #26] by Dave Riley Die Massnahme (The Measures Taken or The Decision) was the first of Bertolt Brecht’s “learning” plays. It is a heavily didactic perhaps — even a tres propagandistic (egads!) and shocking — but is nonetheless beautifully conceived...
Fracking: The new global water crisis
Executive Summary of Fracking: The new global water crisis, published March 9, 2012 by Food and Water Watch Within the past decade, technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” have enabled the oil and gas industry to extract large quantities of oil and...