Just two months ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report on Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. It included this warning: “In Southern Europe, climate change is projected to worsen conditions (high temperatures and drought) in a...
The Time Has Come And now for the good news about global warming . . . Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email...
Joel Kovel writes in the June issue of the quarterly journal Capitalism Nature Socialism: With this issue Capitalism Nature Socialism no longer calls itself an “international red-green journal of theory and politics,” but a “journal of ecosocialism.” We are not so foolish as to think this means...
He’s one of the most respected journalists of the left – but he is also a science-denying crank who insists that global warming is a hoax. Transcript of a Radio Ecoshock broadcast, June 18, 2007. Published by permission of the author, Alex Smith. When some right wing pseudo fascist nut...
by Steve Connor Independent, June 19, 2007 Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming. They also implicitly criticise the UN’s...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXXON PROPOSES BURNING HUMANITY FOR FUEL IF CLIMATE CALAMITY HITS Conference organizer fails to have Yes Men arrested Text of speech, photos, video: GO-EXPO statement: Press conference before this event, Friday, Calgary: Contact: mailto:fuel@theyesmen.org More links at end of...
Is “ecosocialism” an unnecessary addition to left vocabulary? by Ian Angus I remember my shock when I heard that the respected Australian socialist newspaper Direct Action was being replaced by something called Green Left Weekly.“Green Left?” I thought. “What does that mean?” Maybe the...
How Corn-Based Ethanol Can Lead to Starvation and Environmental Disaster From the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, June 12, 2007 Ethanol Fuels Are Not Necessarily the Universal Cure As the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels agenda, it has become increasingly evident that...
The following is excerpted from “The Eco-Suicidal Economics of Adam Smith,” and published here by kind permission of the author, Richard A. Smith. The full article appears in the June 2007 issue of the journal Capital Nature Socialism. by Richard A. Smith If we’re going to stop...
by John Bellamy Foster This essay was published in the 8 June 2007 issue of the Indypendent and in MRzine. It is posted here with the author’s permission. During the last year the global warming debate has reached a turning point. Due to the media hype surrounding Al Gore’s film An...
