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- 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-->>
- Let Them Eat JunkA new book explores the economics of our food system … Arbeiter Ring Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity by Robert Albritton Why are half the people in the world malnourished, while so many in the West are over-fed? Capitalism may promise cheap, nutritious food for all, ...---READ-->>
- UK gov't advisors call for a new society“The market was not undone by rogue individuals or the turning of a blind eye by incompetent regulators. It was undone by growth itself.” From the Sunday Herald By Rob Edwards The economic system is broken, and attempts by governments to fix it by kick-starting growth and consumerism are “delusional” and “pathological”, the Westminster and Holyrood governments will be warned ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist International Network: What's Next?The Ecosocialist International Network meeting in Belem was a success – what do we do next? This article by Joel Kovel aims to initiate an international discussion on that question. (Also available in PDF format: click here to download) The E.I.N.: Chapter Two: What Is To Be Done? By Joel Kovel (Mostly, this is going into the June issue ...---READ-->>
- Hansen: Coal-fired power plants are factories of deathCoal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Coal is the dirtiest fuel. The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. By James Hansen Dr. Hansen, one of the world’s best-known climate scientists, is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia ...---READ-->>
- Some criticisms of the Belem Ecosocialist DeclarationDaniel Tanuro, a certified agriculturalist and eco-socialist environmentalist, writes for “La gauche”, (the monthly of the LCR-SAP, Belgian section of the Fourth International), and Inprecor. This article was submitted to the discussion of the Belem Declaration, which the Ecosocialist International Network distributed at the World social Forum in Brazil in January. His comments were published ...---READ-->>
- The Age of StupidDerek Wall reviews a film that delivers ‘a powerful warning of the stupidity of ignoring climate change’ From Morning Star and Another Green World The Age Of Stupid is a film that every one of you should watch – it’s powerful stuff. It is set in 2055 with Peter Postlethwaite ...---READ-->>
- A guide to false climate change solutionsHoodwinked in the Hothouse” – a short yet comprehensive survey of climate change non-solutions Only a few years ago, some companies were saying climate change wasn’t a problem. Now, as its impacts become apparent, many of the same corporations are suddenly scrambling to claim leadership on the issue. Desperate to avoid regulation that may hit their ...---READ-->>
- Hansen: Protests and direct action needed to stop emissions“The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.” By David Adam Guardian, March 18, 2009 Protest and direct action could be the only way to tackle soaring carbon emissions, a leading climate scientist has said. James Hansen, a climate modeller with Nasa, told the Guardian ...---READ-->>
- Monbiot: We cannot afford to surrenderIt will be difficult and expensive to keep climate change to a minimum, but the alternative is unthinkable By George Monbiot From the Guardian, March 16, 2009 Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented ...---READ-->>
- Scientists Issue Six Blunt Warnings on Climate ChangeFrom the Final Press Release issued by the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions held in Copenhagen this week. Key Message 1: Climatic Trends Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realised. For many key parameters, the climate system is already ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Activists to U.S. Senator: ‘Tar Sands Are Killing Us’First Nations activists affected by the Alberta Tar Sands take their story to John Kerry, and picket Canada’s pro-Tar-Sands Environment Minister By Kate Harries Indian Country Today, March 11, 2009 TORONTO – Dene, Cree and Metis activists from First Nations affected by Alberta tar sands development made themselves heard in Washington as Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice was making ...---READ-->>
- Is Nuclear Power a Safe Solution to Climate Change?It’s been claimed that the French experience proves that nuclear power can be produced safely. but recenly existing plants have developed leaks, and construction of a ‘Third Generation’ reactor had to be halted. From the United Nations Environment Program 2009 Yearbook Since the mid 1970s, France has pursued a strong policy of nuclear power use and by ...---READ-->>
- 'We are facing the worst case scenario'“We can forget about the 2C. We are now facing the situation where we have to avoid a 5-6C rise in temperature.” by Jonathan Leake and Tricia Holly Davis Times (UK) March 10 2009 Surging global greenhouse gas emissions mean the world now faces likely temperature rises of up to 5-6C this century, according to the scientist leading the ...---READ-->>
- Global Warming: Right Here, Right NowGlobal warming is not a distant prospect that might affect our grandchildren at the end of the century. The damage has already started … Anyone who opens a newspaper has read about the devastating heat wave and fires in Australia. And you’ve probably seen news of several studies that conclude that global warming and CO2 emissions ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Trading: the God that FailedBy Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, March 7, 2009 The free market has got us into this mess, and the free market will get us out of it. This nonsensical idea is at the heart of all carbon trading measures, the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) included. Nicholas Stern, the economist asked by the Blair government ...---READ-->>