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- Australian Election: Vote Socialist and Greens, Put Abbott Last!“Socialist Alliance members are campaigning not only for our own candidates but also for the Greens and other progressive candidates.” The Socialist Alliance, which is running in 22 seats in the current Australian General Election, is urging voters to give their preferential votes to socialist candidates followed by candidates of the Green Party. Interviewed for a ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Market 'Growth' Mainly Fraudulent, World Bank Report ShowsThe global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation. by Oscar Reyes Carbon Trade Watch, July 20 2010 “Global Carbon Market Grows to $144 billion Despite Financial and Economic Turmoil” was the ...---READ-->>
- Green Gone WrongWhy cash register solutions to ecological destruction fail again and again Heather Rogers. Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution. Scribner, 2010, 256 pages reviewed by Amy Muldoon Socialist Worker (US) July 21, 2010 The beauty of capitalism lies in its seductive ability to manufacture needs and fulfill them just long enough until a ...---READ-->>
- Climate Action Now! Australian Socialists Adopt Climate Charter“Change the system, not the climate: A safe climate is not possible unless an informed and mobilised community fights for it.” 2010 Climate Charter adopted by Australia’s Socialist Alliance and supported by SA candidates in the country’s current General Election. July 2010 — For years, climate scientists have warned us that we need to act on ...---READ-->>
- Oil, Civil Liberties, and the G20 SummitStatement issued by Climate Justice London (formerly Mobilization for Climate Justice-London), in London, Ontario. (Thanks to Steve D’Arcy for forwarding this.) Members of our group took to the streets around the G20 Summit in Toronto with concerns about climate change, the Alberta tar sands, assaults on native sovereignty, and other environmental injustices. The Summit police in Toronto ...---READ-->>
- Tar Sands: What Canadian Politicians are HidingAs Climate and Capitalism previously reported, Conservatives and Liberals in Canada’s Parliament have secretly agreed to suppress a report on the Alberta Tar Sands. Here’s what they don’t want you to know … (This important article was published in The Tyee on July 15. It was written by Andrew Nikiforuk, author of the award-winning book Tar ...---READ-->>
- Is a Population Policy Needed to Protect New Zealand's Environment?We need a lot of changes to get to an egalitarian and sustainable society, but is population policy one of them? by Byron Clark Byron Clark is a long time activist in the Workers Party of New Zealand. This is the text of a talk he gave at a conference sponsored by the Workers Party in Wellington, ...---READ-->>
- Why Pricing Carbon Won't Solve the Climate CrisisThe idea that markets are the most efficient way to deal with environmental problems has long been a cornerstone of neoliberal economics. But no new market or tax regime has restructured an entire economy in any country. Not ever. by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, July 18, 2010 The pressure is for the movement to accept, ...---READ-->>
- June Temperatures Set Global RecordsThe trend to a warmer world is now incontrovertible … 2010 is on course to be the warmest year since records began in 1880 by John Vidal Guardian, July 16, 2010 Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been ...---READ-->>
- Hoodwinked in the Hothouse – 2nd edition available nowRising Tide North America and Carbon Trade Watch announce the 2nd edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: False Solutions to Climate Change. Download today … This 28-page booklet provides a close-to-comprehensive overview of false solutions to climate change. Fifteen concise articles—complete with photos and illustrations—cover more than 20 false solutions to climate change, from Clean Coal ...---READ-->>
- Comparison of the People’s Agreement and the Copenhagen AccordThe Copenhagen Accord represents a step backward with relation to the Kyoto Protocol by proposing a methodology of voluntary commitments for the industrialized countries that are principally responsible for climate change. From World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth The debate about climate change is divided between the “Copenhagen Accord” that failed ...---READ-->>
- Canadian Politicians Suppress Tar Sands ReportConservatives and Liberals in Canada’s Parliament have agreed to suppress a report on water pollution caused by mining the Alberta Tar Sands. And the government has exempted a major Tar Sands toxin from regulation. UPDATED, July 10, July 19 The Ottawa Citizen reports today that government and opposition MPs, in a closed door meeting held June 17, ...---READ-->>
- BC's Carbon Tax Gets Even More RegressiveWhen it was implemented the BC government claimed its carbon tax wouldn’t hurt the poor. We disagreed – and we were right. by Ian Angus Last December, to their eternal discredit, ten Canadian environmental groups gave an “Acts of Climate Leadership” award to British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell, for his government’s introduction of a carbon tax. As ...---READ-->>
- Joel Kovel: Organizing the Ecosocialist International NetworkSince its formation in 2007, Joel Kovel has been a leading figure in the Ecosocialist International Network. In this letter, Joel discusses where the EIN is going, including plans for forming chapters in the United States and Canada. Joel’s comments were posted on July 5 in the EIN’s egroup. We encourage readers to join in the ...---READ-->>
- From Water Wars to the Fight for Climate Justice: Pablo Solón on the Lessons of CochabambaA Speech by Pablo Solón, Bolivia’s UN ambassador, to the Shout Out for Global Justice, attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto. Video of the event, which was sponsored by the Council of Canadians, can be viewed at rabbletv. First of all, I think you have made a mistake. ...---READ-->>
- Double Standard: BP and BhopalIf we continue to value some lives more than others, and to allow corporations to spoil some areas with impunity, our world will not last. by Bill Quigley and Alex Tuscano from Bill Quigley’s Blog on The Smirking Chimp, July 2, 2010 When President Barak Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion dollar fund be set up ...---READ-->>
- Put BP on Trial for Crimes Against the EarthThe demands of the movement against BP are clear: the oil company should be put on trial for the environmental devastation it has caused and forced to pay for the entire clean-up operation. by Mark Bergfeld Socialist Review, July/August 2010 British Petroleum chief executive John Browne surprised many environmentalists in 1995 when he withdrew BP from ...---READ-->>
- BP and Obama: A Disaster ForetoldU.S. regulators allowed BP to operate with lower safety standards than is required in the North Sea, and about the same kind of regulatory regime as is asked for by the government of Nigeria in its Delta. by Vijay Prashad Frontline, India’s National Magazine The oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. It began to ...---READ-->>
- Big Oil: From Nigeria to the Gulf of MexicoWe’re in a death spiral of industrial calamities that are all for the sake of producing petroleum products that will, in turn, create another set of appalling calamities called man made climate change. by Michael Collins Dissident Voice, June 18, 2010 The big oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not the first to threaten a ...---READ-->>
- Declaration of the US Ecojustice People’s Movement Assembly“We support the conclusion that only by “living well,” in harmony with each other and with Mother Earth, rather than “living better,” based on an economic system of unlimited growth, dominance and exploitation, will the people of this planet not only survive but thrive.” Declaration adopted by the Ecojustice People’s Movement Assembly at the US Social ...---READ-->>