First Nations activists affected by the Alberta Tar Sands take their story to John Kerry, and picket Canada’s pro-Tar-Sands Environment Minister 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...
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Is Nuclear Power a Safe Solution to Climate Change?
It’s been claimed that the French experience proves that nuclear power can be produced safely. but recenly existing plants have developed leaks, and construction of a ‘Third Generation’ reactor had to be halted. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit...
'We are facing the worst case scenario'
“We can forget about the 2C. We are now facing the situation where we have to avoid a 5-6C rise in temperature.” 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...
Global Warming: Right Here, Right Now
Global warming is not a distant prospect that might affect our grandchildren at the end of the century. The damage has already started … 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...
Carbon Trading: the God that Failed
By Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, March 7, 2009 The free market has got us into this mess, and the free market will get us out of it. This nonsensical idea is at the heart of all carbon trading measures, the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) included. Nicholas Stern, the...
Trade Unionists Discuss Climate Change
“This is the fundamental struggle to defend the future of our class as well as the future of our planet.” 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...
The Facts About the Alberta Tar Sands
In Canada, both the governing Conservatives and the opposition Liberals are trying to shrug off National Geographic magazine’s recent photographic expose of the massive devastation caused by mining the Alberta Tar Sands. Facts just don’t matter if they might undermine profits. Share:Click to share...
Concerning the Scientific Knowledge of Canadian Politicians
Canada’s Conservative Party has the largest number of seats in Parliament, so they are the current government. The Bloc Quebecois is one of three opposition parties: it favours sovereignty for Quebec. This is a Canadian Press article, dated March 3, 2009. OTTAWA — A Bloc Quebecois proposal...
Socialist Green Coalition Launched in South Africa
“Red must be green and green must be red.” 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...
Karl Marx, Ecologist
“Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...