[Quotes and Insights #7] “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Utah Phillips Please share your favorite (brief) ecosocialist quotation in the Comments section …. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
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First Nations: Investigate Tar Sands as Cancer Cause
“We want a moratorium for the life and death situation in Fort Chipewyan” 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...
Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and Copenhagen
How should anti-capitalists intervene in coming IPCC meetings in Copenhagen? Cynthia Kaufman says she wrote this piece for Climate and Capitalism “to incite some serious conversation among anti-capitalists.” She suspects that C&C readers “might be pretty divided on its content...
Indigenous Summit Shows the Way on Climate Change
“Our peoples have been wounded many times over but we have always had our environment and our land. That is no longer so sure. Climate Change needs to be reframed as a human rights issue.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
Indigenous Leaders Confront Barrick Gold
“Indigenous leaders from Papua New Guinea and Chile traveled to Canada this week to attend the April 29 shareholders’ meeting of Barrick Gold. Here, they will confront Barrick about human rights abuses and environmental degradation on their lands.” Highly Recommended! Indigenous Leaders...
The Anchorage Declaration: Indigenous Meeting Demands Action on Climate Crisis
Text of the final declaration adopted by the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change, April 20-24, 2009, in Anchorage, Alaska The Anchorage Declaration 24 April 2009 From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa...
Indigenous Conference Sounds Climate Warning
“Most Indigenous Peoples today live oppressed existences as minority groups within states. Climate change for them layers another potentially crushing pressure on top of many others” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
Leon Trotsky and Ecology
A reply to a “green” critique of the Russian revolutionary leader’s views on progress and nature 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...
Agriculture G8 = more hunger and poverty
Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives 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...
Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World
In Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd government in Australia. But carbon trading cannot do...