Carbon trading doesn’t — and won’t — lead to emissions reductions. In fact, that was never its purpose and that’s why large polluters love 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 new window)Click to...
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If Socialism Fails: The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism
Rosa Luxemburg's warning is more relevant than ever today.
China Plans Big Cuts in Energy Intensity
China aims to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent in the five years to 2015, Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday at the opening of the parliament’s annual session. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to...
In Dakar, Bolivia Worked to Build the Global Climate Justice Movement
We stopped them at COP15 in Copenhagen and we can stop them at COP17 in Durban but only if the social movements and grassroots NGOs are united, and are building a united front with governments of the Global South and all progressive forces and institutions of the world. Share:Click to share on...
Rio+20 and the rush to sell nature's invisible labor
Commodifying the natural services involved in the world's carbon cycle (climate change) is just the first stage of commodifying and privatizing nature as a whole to create a new world green economy.
Green Trade Unionist: "No Place for Malthus in the Green Party"
“I just don’t see how their bitter philosophy has any place in a party which stands for social and ecological justice …” 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...
Malthusian Rebranding
Optimum Population Trust becomes Population Matters 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 window)MoreClick to share on Pocket (Opens in new...
Climate Change Models Are 'Dangerously Optimistic'
UK climate scientist Kevin Anderson warns that computer models predicting future climate change are underestimating emissions and overestimating technology 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...
The Real Cost of Coal
Harvard Medical School: Using coal costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year in health costs, environmental destruction and climate change 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...
4 Degrees Hotter: The Adaptation Trap
“Can, and how would, we live in a world 4 degrees Celsius warmer?” is no longer an abstract question, but one that has become the subject of debate in scientific circles, and now in the community. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...