A resolution adopted by the World Congress of the Fourth International, held in February in Belgium ============== Make the Cochabamba gathering a new stage in the fight for an anticapitalist response to climate change The 16th World Congress of the Fourth International Denounces the caricature of...
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Women’s Rights, Population and Climate Change: The Debate Continues
Should climate activists and feminists support campaigns to slow population growth? Laurie Mazur says that alliance will strengthen the movement. Ian Angus strongly disagrees … Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Murray Bookchin on Growth and Consumerism
Perhaps because he was an anarchist, the works of Murray Bookchin are rarely read by ecosocialists today. That’s a pity, because he was one of 20th century’s most insightful writers on environmental politics. The following are excerpts from his article “Death Of A Small Planet,” originally...
Only CO2 Emissions Can Explain Global Warming
Deniers take note: No possible natural phenomenon could have caused the huge rise in temperatures experienced in last half-century 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...
3,000 companies cause $2.2 trillion in environmental damage – every year
The cost of corporate ecocide is greater than the national economies of all but seven countries … +++++++++++++ by Juliette Jowit Guardian, Feb. 18, 2010 The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s biggest companies would wipe out more than...
Evo Donates 50% of Salary to Haiti and Chile
The president of Bolivia sets an example … 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 and Environmental Education
“Environmental educators must formulate a program of instruction which both holds the capitalist economy responsible for the global ecological crisis, while at the same time pointing out new directions in the fight against the ecosystem’s collapse” Share:Click to share on Facebook...
Open letter to Greenpeace — Don't support colonialist crimes on Diego Garcia!
Mauritian socialists appeal to Greenpeace to stop supporting the illegal British occupation and the banning of the people of Mauritius and Chagos from part of their own country Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Bullying, lies and the rise of right-wing climate denial
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is running a series by climate activist and author Clive Hamilton on the bullying, lies and funding behind right-wing climate denial … Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Growth and Consumerism: Nature or Nurture?
Is a desire to always have “more” a fundamental feature of human nature? In Mindful Economics, Joel Magnuson explains how consumerism was deliberately created to meet capitalism’s need for constant growth.