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- FI Supports Cochabamba Peoples’ Summit on ClimateA resolution adopted by the World Congress of the Fourth International, held in February in Belgium ============== Make the Cochabamba gathering a new stage in the fight for an anticapitalist response to climate change The 16th World Congress of the Fourth International Denounces the caricature of an agreement that 25 major polluting countries reached on the sidelines of the ...---READ-->>
- Women’s Rights, Population and Climate Change: The Debate ContinuesShould climate activists and feminists support campaigns to slow population growth? Laurie Mazur says that alliance will strengthen the movement. Ian Angus strongly disagrees … Introduction Climate and Capitalism recently published a debate between Betsy Hartmann and Laurie Mazur about campaigns that promote family planning and reproductive health programs as means of slowing population growth and fighting ...---READ-->>
- Murray Bookchin on Growth and ConsumerismPerhaps because he was an anarchist, the works of Murray Bookchin are rarely read by ecosocialists today. That’s a pity, because he was one of 20th century’s most insightful writers on environmental politics. The following are excerpts from his article “Death Of A Small Planet,” originally published in The Progressive in 1989. The full text of ...---READ-->>
- Only CO2 Emissions Can Explain Global WarmingDeniers take note: No possible natural phenomenon could have caused the huge rise in temperatures experienced in last half-century by Steve Connor The Independent, March 5, 2020 Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse ...---READ-->>
- 3,000 companies cause $2.2 trillion in environmental damage – every yearThe cost of corporate ecocide is greater than the national economies of all but seven countries … +++++++++++++ by Juliette Jowit Guardian, Feb. 18, 2010 The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major ...---READ-->>
- Evo Donates 50% of Salary to Haiti and ChileThe president of Bolivia sets an example … Translated from CubaDebate, March 2, 2010 Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has launched a five-day campaign, called “Chile and Haiti need you,” to raise funds for the two countries. “This is a solidarity campaign with two Latin American peoples who have suffered irreparable climate damage,” said the Bolivian president. Setting ...---READ-->>
- Climate Change and Environmental Education“Environmental educators must formulate a program of instruction which both holds the capitalist economy responsible for the global ecological crisis, while at the same time pointing out new directions in the fight against the ecosystem’s collapse” by Ivonaldo Leite Probably many of the scenarios presented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent reports on ...---READ-->>
- Open letter to Greenpeace — Don't support colonialist crimes on Diego Garcia!Mauritian socialists appeal to Greenpeace to stop supporting the illegal British occupation and the banning of the people of Mauritius and Chagos from part of their own country By Ram Seegobin Lalit de Klas, February 8, 2010 Dear leaders of Greenpeace , We understand that your organisation has taken a position in favour of the British government’s outrageous plan to ...---READ-->>
- Bullying, lies and the rise of right-wing climate denialThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation is running a series by climate activist and author Clive Hamilton on the bullying, lies and funding behind right-wing climate denial … Bullying, lies and the rise of right-wing climate denial Who is orchestrating the cyber-bullying? Think tanks, oil money and black ops Manufacturing a science scandal Who’s defending science?. (Thanks to Duroyan Fertl for alerting us ...---READ-->>
- Growth and Consumerism: Nature or Nurture?Is a desire to always have “more” a fundamental feature of human nature? In Mindful Economics, Joel Magnuson explains how consumerism was deliberately created to meet capitalism’s need for constant growth.---READ-->>
- Video: Michael Löwy on Freedom, Revolution and PowerMichael Löwy, a founder of the Ecosocialist International Network, answers three questions about freedom, revolution and power, during the Klimaforum Summit in Copenhagen Thanks to Green Left Global News & Info---READ-->>
- Say ‘No!’ to Corporate Control of Agriculture and Food!La Via Campesina Call to Action: International Day of Peasant Struggle, April 17 To commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina calls upon member organisations, allies and supporters to unite against transnational corporations (TNCs), which seek complete control over food and agriculture systems around the ...---READ-->>
- Documenting Lomborg's LiesNew book deconstructs Bjørn Lomborg’s claim that global warming is no big deal …. Howard Friel. The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming. Yale University Press. Publication date: March 1, 2010 From the publisher’s announcement: In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global ...---READ-->>
- Is it time to change the IPCC?An Australian ecosocialist argues that the framework for climate science has to change to provide faster responses that meet today’s challenges by Renfrey Clarke Green Left Weekly, 19 February 2010 The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an organisation whose time has passed. It needs to be dismantled. As verdicts go, that might seem plucked from ...---READ-->>
- Do Consumers Cause Climate Change?Readers of Climate & Capitalism debate the causes of damaging economic expansion. Do “more consumers” mean “more pollution”? by Ian Angus One of the most contentious debates among green activists concerns the responsibility of individual consumers for promoting greenhouse gas emissions and thus climate change. In addition to the obvious question of whether changing individual behavior is ...---READ-->>
- Shocking Exposé: Socialists Oppose Climate Change!Andrew Bolt, climate-change-denier-in-chief at the Melbourne Herald Sun, has a scoop… by Ben Courtice Green Left Weekly, 13 February 2010 Andrew Bolt of Melbourne’s Herald Sun published a mind-blowing scoop on his blog on February 6: there are socialists in the movement against climate change. The piece, “The Governor becomes a far-left activist”, was a fearless expose ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Activists Expose Olympic Greenwash“We want the world to know that our lands are not for sale here in BC. Our lands here are unsurrendered, unceded indigenous territories – we have never given up our land.” by Sakura Saunders Vancouver Media Co-Op The Vancouver Olympics were billed by governments, sponsors and promotors as the “greenest games ever.” But the resistance movement ...---READ-->>
- Fernwood publishes Climate JusticeThe North American edition of The Global Fight for Climate Justice is available now … “The Global Fight for Climate Justice is a polemic in the best sense of the word. It is an argument for why capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis and why socialists and others on the Left have to get a whole ...---READ-->>
- The Triple Crisis of CapitalJohn Bellamy Foster – The Crisis of Capital: Economy, Ecology and Empire The editor of Monthly Review talks about the triple crises facing the people of the United State today in the economy, the environment, and in the imperial wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond http://vimeo.com/8838868---READ-->>
- Video: Betsy Hartmann on Climate Change Politics and Overpopulation PropagandaThe Director of the Population and Development program and Professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College was interviewed on January 20 by Newsclick India Thanks to PopDev. More about Betsy Hartmann---READ-->>