Socialist Register 2007 Coming to Terms with Nature. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2006. reviewed by Sarah Parker The editors and authors of this year’s Socialist Register have produced an excellent collection whose aim is “contributing to the development of a...
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D. Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Biofuels invoke an image of renewable abundance that allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the UN, and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present fuel from corn...
A Briefing published by the World Development Movement (WDM) and the London Islamic Network for the Environment (LINE). Climate change is increasingly seen as the biggest challenge facing humanity. We will all be affected by it, but it is many of the poorest countries in the world who will be...
by Simon Korner Dispatches on Channel 4 [U.K.] on July 16 examined the trend for offsetting one’s “carbon footprint,” and questioned how accurate the science for measuring this really is.BP has claimed on its website that by buying into a scheme for trapping the emissions on a huge Mexican pig farm...
by Chris Harman In the past two years the question of climate change has moved from the margins of mainstream political debate to the centre. Hardly a week goes by without some international meeting discussing it. Politicians and corporations of all hues now declare their commitment to do...
More information on this fall’s planned international meeting of ecosocialists The response to last month’s call for an international meeting of ecosocialists has been very encouraging. As that announcement said: “This meeting is a very preliminary first step: we will get to know each other...
From Granma (newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba), July 6, 2007 By a group of authors from the Cuban Ministry of Science and Technology (CITMA) and the Council of State Before the beginning of the recent meeting of the Group of 8, President Bush announced his strategy to deal with the severe...
Ecosocialists around the world have primarily focused on exposing and analysing the capitalist threat to our planet. Australian ecosocialists are moving on the the next step, developing a program that lays out the concrete changes they propose for decarbonizing the planet.Dave Reilly (LeftClick)...
The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage, according to a new report by 11 civil society organisations from around the world. (New Release, July 3, 2007) Agrofuels – towards a reality check in nine key areas sets out considerable evidence that the spread of what are more...
by Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank From Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, both on June 29, 2007. Reprinted in Climate and Capitalism by permission of the authors The environmental movement is on life support. Some would say it is already dead. Even though climate change and Al Gore are fast...
