It’s an article of faith among capitalist economists that the best solution to “market failure” is “more markets.” Convert the problem into a commodity, and the market will magically solve it. John Bellamy Foster writes: “For orthodox economists, ecological degradation is evidence of market failure...
September 28: Come Spoil Bush’s Sham Climate Conference Sponsored by: Chesapeake Climate Action Network, U.S. Climate Emergency Council, Oil Change International, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and U.S. Climate Action Network.In a clearly manipulative move, George Bush is inviting top...
From La Soya Mata – Soy Kills ESP September 20th , Asunción – Paraguay At the end of August an encampment of landless peasants in the neighbourhood of Ka´iho (district of Yhu in Paraguayan province Caaguazu) was evicted, on the orders of the district attorney for environment, Alejandrino...
Saturday September 29, 12:30-5:30pm International Student Centre 33 St. George St, University of Toronto Organized by the U. of T. International SocialistsWorkshops: Why capitalism is destroying the planet; Climate change and revolution; Canada and the tar sands; Greening or greenwash; Climate...
From Upside Down World, September 18, 2007(IPS) – For the second time in Peru, a mining project was rejected by local communities in a popular referendum. More than 90 percent of those who came out to vote in three districts in the northern province of Piura said “no” to the...
This interview originally appeared in the UK newspaper Weekly Worker, on November 10, 2005. It was recently posted on the Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières website.John Bellamy Foster is co-editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and the author of numerous books...
These days, everyone professes concern about climate change. And with the advent of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and carbon ‘offsets’, it looks like governments and corporations are at last starting to do something about the problem.But are they? Or are these...
Previous posts on Climate and Capitalism (here and here) discussed Ecuador’s proposal to halt development of oil reserves in the Yasuni Park in the Amazon region if it received international compensation. Here’s additional background, prepared by an advisor to the Ecuadorian government. Yasuni in...
By Zoe Kenny From Green Left Weekly, September 14, 2007 Despite the media fanfare, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, held in Sydney on September 8 and 9, achieved next to nothing in combating global warming. The key outcome was the adoption of the “Sydney Declaration” — which amounts to...
Canadian Dimension magazine asked me to write an article on building the ecosocialist movement, for their November-December issue. Writing it forced me to think through many issues – in particular, what ecosocialists should be doing now to move from discussion to action. The following is the...
