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- Population Control: 10 Reasons Why It’s the Wrong AnswerWe need to build stronger links and collaboration with movements for climate justice in the global South – not draw up plans to reduce their numbers---READ-->>
- Climate Change Killing 300,000 People a YearFirst ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost 500,000 per year; people affected by climate change annually expected to ...---READ-->>
- The biggest health threat: climate changeThe Executive Summary of Managing the Health effects of Climate Change, a report conducted jointly by The Lancet and University College London, UK, published May 13: Climate change could be the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Effects on health of climate change will be felt by most populations in the next decades and put the lives ...---READ-->>
- Climate change summit hijacked by biggest pollutersSix of the companies involved in the summit have been nominated for Climate Greenwash Awards because of their failure to live up to their PR spin on tackling climate change. (Guardian, May 24, 2009) A vital meeting in Copenhagen this weekend that will help shape the agenda for the most important climate change talks since ...---READ-->>
- 21st Century Warming to Be Twice the ForecastsMIT study author: “There’s no way the world can or should take these risks” The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ...---READ-->>
- The Myth of the Efficient CarWithout divine intervention – which seems to be the basis for most energy reduction schemes – there is simply no way to maintain both the atmosphere and personal transportation. The personal automobile must be abandoned, and quickly. by Alec Dubro (from The Progressive) Let’s get something straight about green industry: in its basic form it means we all ...---READ-->>
- U.S. Climate Bill: No Emission Reduction Until 2026The major climate bill now working its way through the US Senate has a fatal flaw: it doesn’t require polluters to stop polluting An article by Payal Parekh on the International Rivers website offers these comments on the Obama-supported American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill. Democratic Party leaders say the ...---READ-->>
- Utah Phillips: Who is responsible?“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Utah Phillips Please share your favorite (brief) ecosocialist quotation in the Comments section ….---READ-->>
- First Nations: Investigate Tar Sands as Cancer Cause“We want a moratorium for the life and death situation in Fort Chipewyan” Related Reading Indigenous Activists to U.S. Senator: ‘Tar Sands Are Killing Us’ The Facts About the Alberta Tar Sands Beaver Lake Cree Draw a Line in the (Tar) Sand Cree Leaders to UN: Fossil Fuel Pollution is a Human Rights Issue by Peter Zimonjic Sun Media, May 5, 2009 First ...---READ-->>
- Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and CopenhagenHow should anti-capitalists intervene in coming IPCC meetings in Copenhagen? Cynthia Kaufman says she wrote this piece for Climate and Capitalism “to incite some serious conversation among anti-capitalists.” She suspects that C&C readers “might be pretty divided on its content.” Of course we encourage reader comments … By Cynthia Kaufman Given the world-wide financial and economic ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Summit Shows the Way on Climate Change“Our peoples have been wounded many times over but we have always had our environment and our land. That is no longer so sure. Climate Change needs to be reframed as a human rights issue.” By Diana Bronson Reprinted with permission from rabble. Diana Bronson works with the ETC Group and is a member of ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Leaders Confront Barrick Gold“Indigenous leaders from Papua New Guinea and Chile traveled to Canada this week to attend the April 29 shareholders’ meeting of Barrick Gold. Here, they will confront Barrick about human rights abuses and environmental degradation on their lands.” Highly Recommended! Indigenous Leaders confront Barrick Gold Paul York writes: This is the best media to come out of the ...---READ-->>
- The Anchorage Declaration: Indigenous Meeting Demands Action on Climate CrisisText of the final declaration adopted by the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change, April 20-24, 2009, in Anchorage, Alaska The Anchorage Declaration 24 April 2009 From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Conference Sounds Climate Warning“Most Indigenous Peoples today live oppressed existences as minority groups within states. Climate change for them layers another potentially crushing pressure on top of many others” by Stephen Leahy ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Humanity’s hot carbon breath is not just melting the planet’s polar regions, it is disrupting natural systems and livelihoods around the world, indigenous people reported ...---READ-->>
- Leon Trotsky and EcologyA reply to a “green” critique of the Russian revolutionary leader’s views on progress and nature By Louis Proyect In the latest issue of What Next?, an online socialist magazine based in Great Britain, there’s an article titled The Prophet Misarmed: Trotsky, Ecology and Sustainability by Sandy Irvine. The gist of Irvine’s criticism is that Leon Trotsky ...---READ-->>
- Agriculture G8 = more hunger and povertyStrengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives Press release – Via Campesina – April 21, 2009 The first G8 on Agriculture which ended yesterday in Cison di Valmarino produced a final declaration which not only admits its own failures in the past, but previews a future full of contradictions. The G8 will never be able ...---READ-->>
- Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the WorldIn Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd government in Australia. But carbon trading cannot do the job … By Andrew Simms New Scientist, ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009. The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and Green Left Weekly. The following is Ian’s talk to ...---READ-->>
- EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten HealthAfter years of denial by the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says:”climate change is an enormous problem” EPA News Prelease, April 17, 2009: EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to Public Health, Welfare Proposed Finding Comes in Response to 2007 Supreme Court Ruling Release After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the U.S. ...---READ-->>
- Review: Climate WarsGwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada. Toronto, 2008. ISBN 9780307355836. 272 pages. C$34.95. Reviewed by Zane Alcorn Green Left Weekly, 18 April 2009 Climate Wars is a disturbing book and a valuable contribution to the ever-growing body of literature on the historic fork in the road at which the human species currently stands. This book explains the effects of climate ...---READ-->>