Europe’s carbon trading plan has produced windfall profits for major polluters, while undermining efforts to reduce pollution Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a...
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Ten propositions on the climate crisis
Canadian Dimension editor Cy Gonick identifies key challenges facing the climate emergency movement
Population book misdiagnoses Australia's environmental crisis
Dick Smith’s Population Crisis: The Dangers of Unsustainable Growth for Australia. Allen & Unwin, Sydney Australia, 2011. ISBN 978-1-74237-657-8 reviewed by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, August 28, 2011 Those who say today’s big social and ecological problems stem from there being too many...
Native American and Canadian First Nations join civil disobedience to stop tar sands pipeline
The Indigenous Day of Action, September 2, 2011, at the White House will express the solidarity of Native Nations, to protect Mother Earth and demand Obama respect the treaty rights and survival of Native Nations of the US and Canada Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to...
‘Capitalism cannot respond to climate change’
Noted Marxist economist and ecologist John Bellamy Foster is a feature guest speaker at the World at a Crossroads: Climate Change Social Change conference, which will take place in Melbourne Australia, September 30 to October 3. He was interviewed by Peter Boyle for Green Left Weekly...
Canadians call for civil disobedience to stop tar sands
Call urges “one of the largest acts of civil disobedience on the climate issue that Canada has ever seen” in Ottawa, September 26 Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...
Interview: Fred Magdoff on What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism
“It appears inconceivable to most of the people I spoke with that somehow there might be a future economic system that wasn’t capitalist.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
Deforestation is worse in 'protected areas' than in community-managed forests
“When done properly, the benefits of community-based management can be seen over the long term, leading to greater conservation participation, reduced poverty, increased economic productivity and the protection of many forest species” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
South African food sovereignty campaigners expand land occupations
“The land reform has failed us. The municipality has failed us. We will not fail ourselves. We are occupying this land. We will not be removed. Ever!” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in...
Anti-capitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the economic model that has led us into it. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in...