“The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.” 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...
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Monbiot: We cannot afford to surrender
It will be difficult and expensive to keep climate change to a minimum, but the alternative is unthinkable 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...
Scientists Issue Six Blunt Warnings on Climate Change
From the Final Press Release issued by the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions held in Copenhagen this week. Key Message 1: Climatic Trends Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst-case IPCC...
Indigenous Activists to U.S. Senator: ‘Tar Sands Are Killing Us’
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...
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...