“I have been reading some of the slogans painted in the streets … One said, ‘Don’t Change the Climate, Change the System!’ – And I bring that on board for us. Let’s not change the climate. Let’s change the system!” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
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Countering critics of a cap-and-trade critique
By Patrick Bond Eight million people have viewed Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute The Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch. The film, produced by Free Range Studios, was developed in...
Venezuela: What's Happening in Copenhagen is Unacceptable
Developed nations will be judged by the world for what they are doing at the moment … we are not going to let them get away with 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 email...
Interview with Bolivia's Climate Change Ambassador
For the capitalist system everything, nature – even other humans – is considered an object that you can use to obtain a profit. What we are seeing is the consequence of this vision Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Klimaforum: A People's Declaration on Climate Change
System Change, not Climate Change! Statement issued by Klimaform09 in Copenhagen, December 10, 2009 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...
Copenhagen eyewitness: The rising tide of climate justice
A first-hand report from the largest climate protest ever 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...
Climate Catastrophe and Israel’s Denial of Palestinian Access to Water
Two aspects of contemporary barbarism … 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...
Leaked Document Shows Rich Nations Plan Climate Coup in Copenhagen
Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Climate protests, capitalism and the working class movement
The working class movement will only be rebuilt as part of a new political response to the failures of neo-liberal capitalism – a response that includes addressing climate change and ecology Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to...
Why Population Isn’t the Problem
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong." -H. L. Mencken