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...
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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
Video: Those Hacked E-mails
The least the conspiracy nuts could do would be to actually read the documents they stole… 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...
Video: The Story of Cap and Trade
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the climate solution most favored by profiteers. 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...
Monbiot: Canada threatens the well-being of the world
“Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Copenhagen and Seattle: From climate denialism to activist alliances
We need to learn the main lesson from Seattle: by walking out and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress 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...
Ecuador: Dirty War in the Amazon
In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen? Share:Click...
The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy
To doubt the greenhouse effect or to doubt major anthropogenic climate change is about as sensible as doubting anthropogenic lung cancer 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...
Is China to blame for climate change?
Western rulers are attempting to deflect responsibility by obscuring their part in pushing up China’s carbon emissions 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...