by Derrick O’Keefe By now, a number of respected activists have ably rebutted the spurious and provocative writings of Alexander Cockburn on the topic of human-induced global warming (George Monbiot by questioning his sources, and my Seven Oaks colleague Charles Demers by questioning his motives)...
From Food Outlook, June 1 2007, published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Based on FAO’s latest analysis, global expenditures on imported foodstuffs look set to surpass US$ 400 billion in 2007, almost 5 percent above the record of the previous year. The bulk of the increase can be...
By Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young From Mute magazine – Culture and politics after the net According to Tony Blair, the climate change debate is ‘finally over.’ Who can dismiss the economic arguments of the Stern Report on Climate Change? Only a Channel 4 controversialist or two, perhaps, and a few...
by Nick Davies additional research by Natasha Gilbert From The Guardian, Saturday June 2, 2007 In autumn 2005, three journalists working for the environmental group the Centre for Science and Environment decided to investigate some of the Indian projects which were trying to break into the...
by Ian Angus The Pembina Institute’s Analysis of the Government of Canada’s April 2007 Greenhouse Gas Policy Announcement, written by Dr. Matthew Bramley, mostly uses diplomatic language, but it doesn’t shrink from calling Environment Minster Baird’s claims “misleading,” and even “highly misleading...
This Spring, Fidel Castro has written a remarkable series of articles on global warming and biofuels and their effects on third world countries. Socialist Voice has collected them in a PDF pamphlet, with an Introduction by James Haywood. Readers are encouraged to distribute it as widely as possible...
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies May 27, 2007 NEW YORK — NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth’s climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet. From a...
Alliance adopts radical greenhouse gas emissions reduction target May 26, 2007: The Socialist Alliance has adopted radical greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets—95% of stationary power emissions and 60% of overall emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2020, and 90% of overall emissions by 2030...
A Paraguayan campesino organization that opposes Agro-fuel monoculture is in a state of alert and requires international solidarity. A camp of landless youths from Pariri is being threatened with eviction, and there is an attempt to frame and criminalize the organization’s national leader, Jorge...
Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps Asunción, Paraguay, 24 April 2007 – Paraguay has set a short term goal of exporting agro-fuels. The plan is to export at least 50 million dollars worth of agro-fuels in the next four years and in the same...
