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- If wealth was height, how tall would rich people be?Video: Barry Healy of Socialist Alliance makes some instructive comparisons…. From Socialist Alliance Western Australia---READ-->>
- Barry Commoner: Capitalism versus the environmentIn the last thirty years many thousands of production decisions have been made in the United States. They have determined that automobiles shall be large and sufficiently powerful to travel at a rate of 100 mph; that electricity shall be produced by nuclear power plants; that we shall wear synthetic materials instead ...---READ-->>
- Bill Maher: Global warming is not a debateThere is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote. Video, June 8, 2010---READ-->>
- Suppressed report confirms international violations by Canadian mining companiesCanadian mining companies are involved in more than four times as many violations as the next two highest offenders, Australia and India A report obtained by MiningWatch Canada reveals that Canadian mining companies are implicated in four times as many violations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as mining companies from other countries. The report was commissioned ...---READ-->>
- The Ant, The Grasshopper, and a Big Steaming Pile of Manure(From OldBaldLiberal’s Blog on The Smirking Chimp. C&C doesn’t normally publish articles by self-described liberals, but this deserves to be widely read.) The Ant and the Grasshopper – a Fable from Aesop The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant ...---READ-->>
- British Green leader to union conference: 'We need to forge an alliance '“Our current economic system only works by cheating future generations out of their birthright and by exploiting the vulnerable here and abroad” Speech by Caroline Lucas, Member of Parliament and leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, to Alliances for Green Growth, a conference organized by the Trades Union Congress, October 11. Thank you for ...---READ-->>
- Global inequality by the numbersA graphic exposure of the “consumer democracy” hoax From Climate and Capitalism. August 15, 2010: “Consumer democracy” is rendered meaningless by the fact that a few consumers have most of the votes, because they have most of the money…. The rich don’t just have more money than us as individuals, they have more than us collectively. From today’s edition ...---READ-->>
- Richest nations aim to wreck climate talksThe existing framework will not allow for the urgent action required by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, October 17, 2010 A strong agreement at Copenhagen was scuttled by the rich nations’ refusal to commit to deep emissions cuts. No legally-binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions will be made at this year’s big United Nations climate conference ...---READ-->>
- UN Convention meets to decide how to enhance corporate profits by marketing biodiversityProfit-making and protection of biodiversity are directly opposed and can never be reconciled ++++++++ by Anne Petermann Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project and North American Focal Point of Global Forest Coalition Climate Connections October 17, 2010 Governments from all over the world are gathering in Nagoya, Japan for the next two weeks to discuss the creation of a new 10 ...---READ-->>
- The new climate-change denialism: Who promotes it, how to answer itThe planet killers are at it again, and some scientific organizations are bending to their intimidation. We need to fight back with hard science and a clear vision about what needs to be done. By Renfrey Clarke Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, October 15, 2010 You remember the scandal provoked by the errors and exaggerations in ...---READ-->>
- Electric Evasion: The Great Green Car ConGreenwashing 101: Why electric cars can make things worse +++++++++ by Michael Dawson Counterpunch For any product that gets produced, green-ness involves four questions: Material Intake: How much and what types of material does making the product extract from the environment? Material Output: How does the product end up putting materials back into the environment, in the form of manufacturing, product ...---READ-->>
- A Tale of Two Oil SpillsExxon got off easy … don’t let BP do the same! by Antonia Juhasz Dollars and Sense, July 2010 On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, in what was until recently the largest oil spill in U.S. history. More than 26,600 gallons of ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist solutions for their multiple crisesAn ecosocialist transitional program for the multiple crises of 21st century capitalism, from Socialist Resistance Özlem Onaran argues that “the social democratic utopia of growing our way out of debt is not consistent with the ecological crisis. “ Britain has experienced the deepest crisis among the advanced capitalist countries and it is far from over. The recovery in ...---READ-->>
- Scientists: Climate change caused Pakistan floodsMonsoon rains have shifted 40-60 miles northwest in the past three decades by Rob Crilly The Scotsman, October 14 2010 (Islamabad) Man-made climate change was a major cause of devastating floods in Pakistan this year, shifting monsoon rains away from flood defences and into areas of the country incapable of dealing with the deluge, according to Pakistani scientists. ...---READ-->>
- Is climate change good for Canada?A new report by the business-dominated National Roundtable offers an embarrassing and misleading “don’t worry, be happy” vision by Stephen Leahy (IPS) The first comprehensive look at the expected impacts of climate change on Canada offers an embarrassing and misleading “don’t worry, be happy” vision, citing more golf days and better access to northern deposits of oil ...---READ-->>
- Bring Cochabamba to Cancun!A call from Canadian based NGO’s, community groups and individuals to join the growing global movement for climate justice in Cancun Nov 27- Dec 10th. We the undersigned representatives of Social Movements and NGO’s, Meeting at a side event with President Morales of Bolivia during the Millennium Development Goals Summit, New York City, September 23, 2010, Affirm the ...---READ-->>
- Grassy Narrows people draw a line in the forestIgnoring the rotten deal that Canada’s pale green NGOs signed with the forest killers, the Grassy Narrows people are calling for boycott and divestment of Weyerhauser for destroying their lands Posted by Ahni on Interconttinental Cry Less than five months ago, several large environmental groups and logging companies declared a truce to the “war in the woods”, ...---READ-->>
- NYC Oct 24: John Bellamy Foster and Chris WilliamsSave the date: Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis Monthly Review Press and Haymarket Books present a discussion with John Bellamy Foster launching his new book, The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (co-authored with Brett Clark and Richard York) and Chris Williams author of Ecology and Socialism Sunday, Oct. 24, 4 pm New York University – Kimmel Center Rm. 802 60 Washington Square South New York ...---READ-->>
- Hungary's red mud: natural or man-made disaster?For years, environmentalists in Hungary and elsewhere have warned of the dangers of this by-product of aluminum production and especially the way it is stored ++++++++ (In Defense of Marxism, October 12, 2010) Overnight the world has woken up to intimate knowledge of the process of extracting aluminium from bauxite and its by-product the red mud, which devastated ...---READ-->>
- Video: How can we win an ecological revolution?Roy Wilkes speaking at the Climate & Capitalism seminar in London, January 23, 2010 Roy Wilkes is a member of the British organization Socialist Resistance and of the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group. The seminar was sponsored by the Green Left and Socialist Resistance.---READ-->>