TORONTO, MARCH 4, 2007: Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? and co-author of “The Ecosocialist Manifesto,” spoke in Toronto last night. A recording of Joel Kovel’s talk is posted online HERE. His talk, “A Very Inconvenient Truth: The Left...
by Richard Ingham Climate change will inflict steadily rising costs that could become astronomical if greenhouse gas emissions rise unabated and countries delay preparations for the likely impacts, UN experts will say next week. Their vast report will shed light on the costs from heightened water...
by Daniel Tanuro A speech presented at the “Ecosocialism or Barbarism” conference in London, December 2, 2006. Daniel Tanuro is the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, the newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party. Video of this talk and others at the December 2006 Ecosocialism or...
by Ian Angus The IPCC’s estimates are not the worst case scenario. Far from it. In a previous article, I noted that attempts to compare the IPCC’s forecast of rising ocean levels with those offered by Al Gore in The Inconvenient Truth involved a severe case of apples and oranges. Most...
Don’t let those IPCC charlatans fool you. Now we know what really causes global warming. (Even climate scientists celebrate April 1.) 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...
Regardless of the debate over the sustainability of biofuels, in today’s world the use of biofuels has led to horrific consequences for the people of the world and the environment From Revolution Newspaper Online, March 25, 2007. About the time when capitalism was first putting humanity on the road...
C&C promises to deliver the alchemists’ dream of saving the environment without disturbing capitalism too much. Not only do the rich get to stay rich, but world poverty is eliminated into the bargain. by Roy Wilkes From Socialist Resistance, March-April 2007 When Tony Blair said recently...
by Fidel Castro May 28 2007 More than three million people in the world condemned to premature death from hunger and thirst. That is not an exaggerated figure, but rather a cautious one. I have meditated a lot on that in the wake of President Bush’s meeting with U.S. automobile manufacturers. The...
by Ian Angus Canada’s National Post was positively gleeful. The New York Times (which the Post normally views as a hotbed of liberalism) criticized Al Gore (not only a liberal but a global warming fanatic) for fudging his numbers: [T]he New York Times (of all papers) ran a front page story...
by Andy Kilmister from Socialist Outlook, Spring 2007 Introduction Anybody politically active in the area of ecological struggles, particularly climate change, will have noticed a striking paradox. [1] On the one hand we have exceptionally radical and inspiring ideas, arising from both green and...
