A number of books have on climate change hit the shelves over the past year, but perhaps the most important of the recent titles on this subject is George Monbiot’s Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (Random House, 2006). Monbiot, a widely read columnist with the UK Guardian, delivers a...
Politicians and oil companies are jumping on the green bandwagon, but they have no solutions to a crisis that is rooted in capitalism By Ian Angus This month, we’ve been treated to the bizarre spectacle of George Bush and Stephen Harper each declaring their deep concern about “the serious...
by Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada & Graham Erion With climate change posing as one of the gravest threats to capital accumulation – not to mention humankind and our environment – in coming decades, it is little wonder that economists such as Sir Nick Stern, establishment politicians like...
