by Phil Hearse From Marxsite For the small hard-core climate change deniers, no amount of evidence will make much difference. But there is evidence aplenty that in 2007 environmental damage has been accumulating because of global warming, and doing major damage to communities, nations and...
From Inter Press Service, Nov. 8, 2007 By David VargasASUNCIÓN, Nov 8 (IPS) – A sea of green stretches as far as the eye can see on both sides of the dirt road leading to the communities of Lima, Capiibary and Guayaibí, 250 km from the capital, in the northern Paraguayan department (province)...
Journée de Conferences Socialisme Vert ou Écologie Rouge Vers l’écosocialisme? Samedi, 10 novembre 2007 Conférence : Entrée libre et gratuite UQÀM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin 400, Rue Sainte-Catherine Est Local-A-1340Conférence avec: 9h30 : Mobilisations écologistes : Kyoto, Rabaska… Par...
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By George Monbiot Published in the Guardian 6th November 2007 Full article from www.monbiot.com It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to...
From Inter Press Service, Nov. 5, 2007 By Imelda Abano NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (IPS) – The world’s richest countries must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate climate change impacts, says the lead author of a United Nations report, due for release later this month...
By Warden Bello Walden Bello is Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Development Studies at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada ; Professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines (Diliman) ; and senior analyst and former executive director of Focus on the Global South...
By far the weakest of this year’s reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the report on Mitigation. The latest challenge comes in a letter from five leading climate scientists to the IPCC chair that identifies “serious and dangerous deficiencies” in its...
From The Guardian, Saturday November 3 2007 John Vidal, environment editor Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability...
From Socialist Worker (U.S.), November 2, 2007 Despite their nonstop coverage, nearly all of the media accounts of the wildfires in Southern California missed the deeper causes of the catastrophe–years of destructive land development driven by the thirst for profit, and the failure of...
