Given the hostile tone of his sweeping attacks on the government and its supporters, one would expect a thorough and detailed analysis. Instead we get a litany of errors and misleading statements. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
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Why GMOs won’t feed the world (despite what you read in the New York Times)
We need proven sustainable intensification agriculture that creates resilient communities, not the hollow promises of GMO promoters 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...
Marxism has an ecological heart
In the past two decades several scholars have gone back to the writings of Marx and other early socialists. They have found that humanity’s relation to the planet’s ecology was a key element to a Marxist analysis of political economy. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to...
Population debate heats up on C&C
The article “Seven questions for a populationist” has prompted some interesting comments and debate. Now one of the big guns of populationism, Simon Ross, CEO of the UK-based Optimum Population Trust, has posted his answers. He accuses socialists of dividing the environmental movement...
David Harvey on the English riots: Feral capitalism hits the streets
A political economy of mass dispossession, of predatory practices to the point of daylight robbery, particularly of the poor and the vulnerable, the unsophisticated and the legally unprotected, has become the order of the day Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Building an ecosocialist network in New Zealand
The time is right to encourage further cooperation among people who identify as ecosocialists 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 friend (Opens in new...
Jonathon Porrit vs George Monbiot on nuclear power
Two posh britishmen discussing nuclear power. Not exactly my cup of tea, I really don’t like the arrogant tone both regularly use, but interesting to follow. 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...
Rioters on Wall Street!
As I write these words, out-of-control hordes are swarming throughout downtown Manhattan. Their disregard for human decency, for the sanctity of people’s homes, jobs, property and health is beyond anything seen since the Dark Ages. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to...
England: an explosion of bitterness and rage
The anarchy of the market is far more devastating than the supposed anarchy on the streets. The bankers and businessmen have enriched themselves more effectively than any looter. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
How biofuels are destroying Indigenous communities in Malaysia
Logging and then palm oil plantations have cost the Batek and the Penan much of their rainforest homelands. 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 friend (Opens in...