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- Beaver Lake Cree Draw a Line in the (Tar) SandA news release issued by the Beaver Lake Cree Nation Lac La Biche, Alberta, May 14, 2008 – Beaver Lake Cree Nation, a small Cree band from north eastern Alberta, has watched with growing anger and frustration as their traditional hunting, trapping and fishing lands have been rapidly destroyed by the oil and gas industry. They have ...---READ-->>
- Cuban VP: “Sustainable development requires a revolution in our values”Address by José Ramón Machado Ventura, First Vice-President of Cuba’s Council of State, at a session on “Sustainable Development: the Environment, Climate Change and Energy,” during the 5th EU/LAC (European Union / Latin America and Caribbean) summit meeting in Lima, Peru, May 16-17. Your Excellency: At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio ...---READ-->>
- Cree Leaders to UN: Fossil Fuel Pollution is a Human Rights IssueA presentation by the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations to the to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Intervention on Agenda Item 5: Human rights: dialogue with the Special Rapportuer on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and other special rapporteurs. Thank ...---READ-->>
- Cuba Publishes Environmental IndicatorsNew report provides comprehensive data on population, atmosphere, water, soils, biodiversity, energy, wastes and more On May 16, as part of activities leading up to World Environment Day on June 5, Cuba’s National Statistics Office published Cuba’s Environmental Panorama 2007. The 71-page book includes data related to population, atmosphere, water, soils, biodiversity, energy, wastes and other topics ...---READ-->>
- Brazil's Environment Minister Gives Up the FightMarina Silva says the power of agribusiness makes it impossible to protect the rainforest. By Daniel Howden From The Independent, May 15, 2008 Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister fuelled fresh fears over the fate of the forest. The departure of ...---READ-->>
- How the Oil Industry Sabotages Emission ReductionsFriends of the Earth exposes the lies of the oil giants’ attack on European emission reduction plans Oil companies have the potential to achieve more than 10 per cent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without using agrofuels, reveals a report launched today by Friends of the Earth Europe. Released on the day Shell ...---READ-->>
- Can We Feed the World?Aid, however necessary, is only a stopgap. To truly address world hunger, we must understand and then change the system that causes it FOOD CRISIS Part Two: Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative by Ian Angus Part Two of this two part article appears in Socialist Voice, May 12, 2008. Part One was published on April 28, 2008---READ-->>
- It's Not Just About 500 Dead DucksThe fate of the 500 ducks is symbolic of much deeper problems when it comes to the environmental consequences of Canada’s largest industrial project by Gillian Steward Toronto Star, May 11, 2008 Who could have known that a flock of ducks on its way home for the summer was fated to become a powerful symbol of ...---READ-->>
- Cyclone Nargis and Climate Change: The Deadly Legacy of Oil“Nargis is a sign of things to come. The victims of these cyclones are climate change victims and their plight should remind the rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gas emissions.” by Mitch Anderson From DeSmogBlog, May 9, 2008 In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma , the world’s attention ...---READ-->>
- Bush Says Starving India Eats Too MuchTruly, imperialist hypocrisy knows no bounds Kavita Krishnan writes .. Karl Marx, born on 5 May, 1818, nearly two centuries ago, had in 1867 laid bare the “intimate connection between the pangs of hunger of the most industrious layers of the working class, and the extravagant consumption, coarse or refined, of the rich, for which capitalist accumulation ...---READ-->>
- Proving the Link Between Biofuel and Food PricesMany politicians deny or minimize the link between ethanol production and global food prices. The evidence proves them wrong. To anyone with any insight at all, there is an obvious connection between food prices and what Fidel Castro has justly called “the sinister idea of converting food into fuel.” That hasn’t stopped politicians in the United ...---READ-->>
- Agrofuel Expansion on Stolen Lands Threatens Colombian Peasant CommunitiesProduction of biofuels is expanding on land stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities, endangering Colombia’s rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climate From Rainforest Portal, May 6, 2008 Plantation expansion for agrofuels remains a major threat to the lives, livelihoods and the environment of Afro-Colombian and other peasant communities in Chocó, Colombia. This is one of the ...---READ-->>
- Global Warming Intensifies Grain Crisis in IndiaNot a socialist analysis, but an insightful perspective from India, where water stress, declining soil health and global warming have made wheat production unsteady for six or seven years Related Reading on Climate and Capitalism: What’s Causing the Food Crisis? Them Belly Full But We Hungry Slideshow: The Global Food Crisis By G. Chandrashekhar From Business Line, a daily published by ...---READ-->>
- Them Belly Full But We HungryBob Marley in 1976 — an anthem for 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4DltFF-dQ&feature=related Lyrics: Them belly full but we hungry. A hungry mob is a angry mob. A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough; A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough. You’re gonna dance to JAH music, dance. We’re gonna dance to JAH music, dance. Forget your troubles and dance. Forget your sorrow and dance. Forget your ...---READ-->>
- B.C.’s Carbon Tax: A Regressive HoaxThe editorial in the current issue of Canadian Dimension magazine (May/June 2008) H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” British Columbia’s recently announced carbon tax is a case in point. It won’t reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and it will have no impact on global ...---READ-->>
- Slideshow: The Global Food CrisisPrepared by Peter Boyle of the Australian Socialist Alliance---READ-->>
- Australian Ecosocialists Launch New BlogAn “intersection set” of the various left and green movements Climate and Capitalism previously published an interview with John Rice, one of the initiators of the Ecosocialist Network, in Adelaide, Australia. Rice was a speaker at recent very successful Climate Change | Social Change conference organized by Green Left Weekly — an audio recording of his ...---READ-->>
- Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness, and the Food Sovereignty Alternative (Part Two)by Ian Angus editor of Climate and Capitalism “Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.” —Fidel Castro, 1998 When food riots broke out in Haiti last month, the first country ...---READ-->>
- Imprisoned Algonquin activist writes to Citizens' Inquiry on Uranium MiningRobert Lovelace: “I have no doubt that more people will have to go to prison before Ontario becomes nuclear free and we embrace a society that undertakes real sustainability” Robert submitted this handwritten presentation to the Inquiry via surface mail. Acting Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Co-Chief, Mireille LaPointe, read the presentation at the Ottawa Inquiry on ...---READ-->>
- Building a Red-Green AllianceDave Riley writes: While it may be urgent that we create a red green alliance to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change, our collective problem is: how are we going to do that? The Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney Australia during April tried to tackle that challenge.This was a bold attempt ...---READ-->>