From “Notes from the Editors” in the March 2007 Monthly Review. Our friends Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors of the Socialist Register, have recently published Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register, 2007 (Monthly Review Press, 2006), which includes contributions by a distinguished...
“Global warming” is just the beginning, and it may be the least of the problems caused by greenhouse gases. Capitalism is really fouling things up. WASHINGTON – (Associated Press, March 11, 2007) The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of...
Climate Change and Human Health … Bangladesh Already Feels the Heat … The Big Green Fuel Lie … Biofuels and the Cost of Food. Recent articles from various sources for the activists’ arsenal. A Cost of Climate Change that Can’t Be Counted in Dollars – Survival QUOTE:...
Speech by Pip Hinman, Socialist Alliance candidate for Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, to a candidates’ meeting organized by Marrickville Climate Change Now! March 6, 2007 The big question in NSW is how to tackle the coal question: there are two arguments: there’s the government and...
A leaked report says that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will grow almost as much in this decade as they did in the last one. The United States Climate Action Report, obtained by the New York Times, was supposed to be released in January 2006, under the terms of the 1992 Framework Convention on...
by Almuth Ernsting A year ago, my MEP sent me a curious statement which said that growing biofuels could not just reduce carbon emissions, but would actually cool the planet. I believed that he had been misinformed, perhaps by proponents of the biofuel industry. I was wrong. Those claims...
For political grounding and stimulating ideas for action, this small booklet is indispensable. It should be on every socialist campaign stall and bookshelf. UNITY Published by Socialist Worker, New Zealand. December 2006, NZ$5 Order from socialist-worker@pl.net reviewed by Ben Courtice “System...
By Robert Bryce The ethanol scam just keeps getting more and more absurd. In January, three U.S. senators — two Democrats, Tom Harkin of Iowa and Barack Obama of Illinois, along with Indiana Republican Richard Lugar — introduced a bill that would promote the use of ethanol. It also mandates the use...
“We are an oil producing country and that obligates us to take even more care of the environment — on an extreme level — and to avoid contamination, and to reduce contamination in all areas: earth, water and air.” – President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, February 24, 2007. By Eva...
Following closely on the the better-publicized IPCC Report, another UN-related group, the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, yersterday released Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable. It’s well worth reading, despite...
