There is no question that excessive consumption damages the environment, but are consumers really driving the runaway train? I offer the following as an indication that different drivers are in charge. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
On Saturday, August 14th the Keepers of the Athabasca, a network of First Nation, Metis and settler community members along the Athabasca river will host a ‘healing walk’ through the tar sands. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click...
In this country, known as Canada, which is actually the stolen native land of Turtle Island, Indigenous communities are rising up to join the tide of resistance to neocolonialism by fighting the imposition of pipelines and the tar sands in Western Canada. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in...
Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved, interviewed by Jill Hickson and Simon Cunich for Green Left Weekly and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to...
Hedge funds, bankers and other speculators are buying everything from farmland to mines across the Global South, fueling exploitation half a world away 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...
A promise to rein in population growth is useful for the right wing because it substitutes for the fundamental social and economic changes needed to really deal with these problems. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Xenophobes have launched a cynical campaign to recruit environmentalists to their cause by blaming immigrants for urban sprawl and other environmental problems. 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...
Speakers at the “National Encounter for Environmental and Social Justice” in Mexico City discussed key aspects of the global environmental crisis and its impact on the countries and peoples of the global south Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
These are the 41 countries that abstained in the July 28 UN General Assembly vote on Bolivia’s resolution to recognize access to water and sanitation as basic human rights. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
U.S. and U.K. government climate scientists agree: “the climate is unequivocally warming” 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...
