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Climate Change IPCC

'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...

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Climate Change

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...

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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...

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Greenhouse Gas Tar Sands

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...

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Marxist Ecology

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...

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