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- Rich Countries' Carbon Debt: $23 trillionDeveloped countries would need to reduce their emissions by 213% by 2050, for developing countries to maintain their current per capita emission level By Martin Khor Malaysian Star, August 3, 2009 High-polluting developed countries have already used up much of the world’s “carbon space,” and should pay up their carbon debt to facilitate in fair global deal on ...---READ-->>
- Climate Wars: A not-so-hot book on global warmingDyer offers the human nature argument, that it is in our nature to keep expanding our population until we spoiled our own environment. So nobody is “to blame” because we are all to blame.---READ-->>
- G8 Inaction Makes Catastrophe More Likely“There has been no progress on the huge gap between what the science says is needed and what developed countries will commit to” by Stephen Leahy BERLIN, Jul 13 (IPS) – The G8’s failure to make meaningful commitments on climate last week pushes the world ever closer to global climate catastrophe, experts warn. Without commitments to take ...---READ-->>
- Climate and Capitalism Seminar Set for LondonIf you’re in England on September 12, don’t miss the Climate and Capitalism seminar in London, sponsored by Green Left and Socialist Resistance Confirmed speakers include Ian Angus, editor of Climate & Capitalism Terry Conway, Respect National Council Raphie de Santos, Scottish Socialist Party Ben Hart, environmental consultant Lars Henrickson, Swedish autoworker activist Andy Hewitt, Green Party candidate Grace Livingstone, journalist Liam Mac Uaid, editor of ...---READ-->>
- Infighting Kills Alberta Green PartyA provincial wing of Canada’s ecocapitalist party has imploded in a fight over whether to be somewhat moderate or very moderate. by Ian Angus The Green Party ...---READ-->>
- An Ecosocialist Program for South AfricaClimate & Capitalism previously reported that the Socialist Green Coalition was prevented from running in South Africa’s recent election by a huge election deposit and other registration problems. The ecosocialist current issued this leaflet during the campaign. Our struggle for justice and equality is ...---READ-->>
- How not to build the climate change movementThis Open Letter was sent to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition from the socialist youth organization Resistance, following the Power Shift 2009 conference in Sydney, July 11-13. We face a climate emergency. Climate tipping points are rapidly being approached, which, if passed, could mean an uninhabitable planet. Climate scientist James Hansen ...---READ-->>
- Hugo Blanco on the Massacre at BaguaOn June 5, world environment day, Peruvian president Alan Garcia turned his anti-ecological fury against the defenders of the Amazon by Hugo Blanco [Hugo Blanco was a leader of the peasant uprising in the Cuzco region of Peru in the early 1960s, a symbol of the unity and renewal of the Peruvian revolutionary left in 1978-1980, ...---READ-->>
- The 'Disappeared' in PeruDerek Wall of Another Green World reports on the victims of Peru’s war against the indigenous people of the Amazon region of Bagua. I am just reading ‘Los Companeros’ or ‘Comrades.’ ‘Los Companeros’ is about the war in Guatamala in the 1960s, ten of thousands of indigenous people ‘disappeared.’ Well it;s 2009 and indigenous people are still ...---READ-->>
- Peru's Continuing War Against Indigenous PeoplesDespite recent indigenous victories, the Peruvian government’s war continues and could possibly intensify into open battle, as happened the last time the government provoked the indigenous to protest by Kristina Aiello Kristina Aiello is a NACLA Research Associate and a human rights advocate. This article was published on NACLA.org on July 15 The recent conflict in the Peruvian ...---READ-->>
- The Global Fight for Climate Justice“At last, an absolutely indispensable guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming. ” —Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature and founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network “At last, an absolutely indispensable guide to the debate ...---READ-->>
- Obama's Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill – A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and FraudBill does nothing to address environmental issues, lets corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits, and paves the way for a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation. Polluters love it. by Stephen Lendman (Steve Lendeman Blog, July 8, 2009) On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House ...---READ-->>
- Mainstream Economists versus the EarthA new book by economist Frank Ackerman, Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World (Zed, 2009), presents an important and startling thesis: “As the climate science debate is reaching closure, the climate economics debate is heating up. The controversial issue now ...---READ-->>
- Millions Face Hunger as Seasons DisappearOxfam: Without a serious effort to reduce warming, and in the absence of international funds for adaptation, the food, water, health and livelihoods of millions of people will be at risk A new report reveals that seasons which were once distinct are shifting, destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger. This is just one of the multiple impacts ...---READ-->>
- Corporate profits = global hungerA handful of companies stand between millions of small farmers and millions of consumers in the food cycle by Simon Butler (Green Left Weekly, July 4, 2009) Three years ago, a number of news outlets reported on a troubling first-ever occurrence. The world’s obese people outnumbered the world’s starving. This wasn’t because hunger was becoming any less of a ...---READ-->>
- Canada's Climate Change Report Card: Total Failure“Nowhere else on Earth do fewer people steward more resources, yet Canada now stands dead last among the G8 Nations in protecting our shared home from the threat of dangerous climate change” Canwest News Service, July 1, 2009) Canada is doing the least of any of the world’s wealthiest countries to fight climate change, says a damning ...---READ-->>
- The Burning Season: Can carbon trading save our forests?In review: The Burning Season. Screened in 2008 by ABC (Australia), BBC (UK), and CBC (Canada). Distributed worldwide by National Geographic International. Now showing in theatres in Australia By Susan Austin Susan Austin, a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, and the Socialist Alliance, is a climate activist in Tasmania. From Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Along with ...---READ-->>
- Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty in CubaThe following is the text of a talk given by Jorge Soberon, Cuba’s Consul General in Toronto, Canada, to a meeting of food sovereignty sponsored by the Venezuela We Are With You Coalition (CVEC). As a sovereign country, Cuba is working to develop its food industry and reduce dependence on food imports. Cuba is working to ...---READ-->>
- Australian ecosocialist at climate rally: 'Yes we can!'John Rice, a member of the Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN) in South Australia and a founder of the Adelaide Ecosocialist Network, spoke at the June 13 Climate Emergency Rally in Adelaide. This article is based on his speech. from Green Left Weekly, 29 June 2009 The numbers of people who came out on a cold Adelaide ...---READ-->>
- A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the worldOf course, the oil companies will regroup and return – but this is an inspirational victory for the forces of sanity that will be hard to reverse by Johann Hari The Independent, June 24, 2009 While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more important uprising has been passing unnoticed – yet its outcome will ...---READ-->>