The growing wave of privatization of land in Africa has made its precarious agricultural and food system even more vulnerable 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 link to a...
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Foundations of an ecosocialist strategy
This article by a leading European ecosocialist, Daniel Tanuro, was written for the latest issue of the Montréal-based journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme (NCS), which features a number of articles on what is commonly referred to as the ecological crisis (not yet on-line). Tanuro is the author...
Canadian groups tell ambassador: 'Stop lobbying for the Keystone XL pipeline'
We can’t let the tar sands be Canada’s greatest legacy of the 21st century. The devastation already visited by tar sands development should be proof enough of what a shortsighted plan it is. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
The Great Distraction: ‘Overpopulation’ Is Back in Town
by Betsy Hartmann CommonDreams.org, August 30, 2011 What’s next to hit New York after Hurricane Irene? If you’re in the heart of Times Square during the month of September, you’ll get the chance to see a scary video about overpopulation playing every hour on a huge screen. Sponsored by the Human...
Europe's third try at emissions trading: another failure
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...
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...