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- Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?“Climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to bring about the long postponed social and economic reforms that had been derailed or sabotaged in previous era” By Walden Bello There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, ...---READ-->>
- Corporations and Climate Change: From Denial to GreenwashGlobal warming, General Motors’ vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is “a total crock of shit” By Renfrey Clarke Green Left Weekly, March 29, 2008 Global warming, General Motors’ vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is “a total ...---READ-->>
- The True Cost of BiofuelsA major study published by The Nature Conservancy and University of Minnesota concludes that land clearing releases 17 to 420 times as much carbon dioxide as is replaced by using the biofuel produced from that cleared land. What is “carbon debt”? The lead author of “Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt,” Joe Fargione, explains in ...---READ-->>
- Indian Social Scientists Call for Equal Rights to the Global CommonsA call for climate justice, adopted by the congress of the Indian Academy of the Social Sciences Thanks to Delhi Platform for drawing this resolution to our attention. It was presented as a draft at the Indian Social Science Congress in Mumbai on 30 December 2007, and finalized after discussion among and feedback from the audience ...---READ-->>
- Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British ColumbiaProtests stop a private hydro-electric megaproject and win a moratorium on salmon farming This report was submitted by Roger Annis, a Vancouver-based trade unionist who is co-editor of Socialist Voice. The environmental movement in British Columbia scored two important victories this past week. Pitt River hydro development stopped On March 26, the BC government announced that it would ...---READ-->>
- The Qollasuyo Declaration: Indigenous Peoples Demand Full Participation in Climate Talks and DecisionsThe statement below was issued on March 19, at the conclusion of a conference held in the Qollasuyo district of the province of La Paz, Bolivia, on “The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the Protection of Bio-Cultural Diversity: The Effect of Deforestation and Gas Emissions on Climate Change.” According to a report in the Chilean newspaper ...---READ-->>
- 79% of Canadians Want an Immediate Hard Cap on EmissionsConservative and Liberal governments are out of touch with the majority From a Canwest News Services report dated March 25, citing a survey conducted by McAllister Opinion Research. The figures are considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Overall, 79% of Canadians and 81% of Albertans said that greenhouse gas emissions from ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Trading: An Ecosocialist CritiqueDespite its popularity among advocates of market solutions to global warming, carbon trading cannot produce the quantitative and qualitative changes that the world needs Daniel Tanuro is the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party. This is the text of his talk at the Conference on the future of Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...---READ-->>
- Kitchenuhmaykoosib People Continue the Fight for Their LandIn response to the imprisonment of indigenous leaders who protested illegal mining, the KI Council bans federal and provincial politicians, and all mining companies, from their Homelands See also: Ontario Jails Aboriginal Leaders for Peacefully Opposing Mining on Native Land PRESS RELEASE, March 20, 2008 Kitchenuhmaykoosib, Ontario – We are saddened today that our leaders have been jailed ...---READ-->>
- Global Warming and the Iraq WarIn 2006. the US spent more on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy. On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, an advance edition of a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War (pdf) quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War ...---READ-->>
- Ontario Jails Aboriginal Leaders for Peacefully Opposing Mining on Native LandSupport wrongly imprisoned aboriginal leaders. Oppose industrial mining in Ontario. Update, March 20: See Kitchenuhmaykoosib People Continue the Fight for Their Land The following are excerpts from an email from Paul York of University of Toronto Students Against Climate Change. Paul would like to hear from people in the Toronto area who are interested in forming an anti-mining/pro-native ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Trading Comes to CanadaNew excitement from the wonderful folks who gave us the subprime mortgage disaster … As we all know, markets are the very best way to make this a better world. That’s especially true of markets that don’t trade actual goods, but symbols of goods, and abstractions of symbols, and derivatives of abstractions of symbols … The ...---READ-->>
- Corporate vs. Popular Solutions to the Climate CrisisA presentation by Anne Petermann, Co-Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project at the Left Forum, New York City, March 15 Global warming is humanity’s greatest challenge. As such, we must tackle this issue on several fronts. We must build opposition to the corporate-controlled false solutions to climate change that dominates the media, in order to open space ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Trading, IllustratedHere’s how it really works …---READ-->>
- The Photosynthetic Ceiling: Don’t Duck Your Head Just YetIs humanity is about to bump its collective head against a physical limit to growth? Will we soon be using all of the available resources?---READ-->>
- Video: Patrick Bond on the Global Fight for Climate JusticeVideo of Patrick Bond’s talk in Toronto on March 4 Socialist Project has posted video of Patrick Bond’s talk at: http://www.socialistproject.ca/environment/patrick_bond.html Many thanks to Pance Stojkovski for the video and the SP website.---READ-->>
- Carbon Storage: A Silver Bullet for Emissions?Canada’s federal government says Carbon Capture and Storage is the key to cutting greenhouse gases by Ian Angus This week, Canada’s federal government revealed new details about its supposed plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Last year in Canadian Dimension, I described the plan as “a complete and total fraud” and “a recipe for inaction and delay.” The ...---READ-->>
- Minority and Indigenous Peoples Hardest Hit by Climate ChangeA new report shows that minorities and indigenous groups are disproportionately suffering — both from climate change itself and from “solutions” like biofuels A study of several recent environmental disasters across the world shows that it is minority and indigenous groups that have been worst affected by changing weather patterns but in most cases when a disaster ...---READ-->>
- Video: Urban Farming in CubaThe BBC program “Around the World in 80 Gardens” (2008) shows some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRz34Dee7XY A tip of the hat to Dave Riley, host of Left Click, for bringing this video to our attention. Related reading: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil---READ-->>
- Tar Sands: Environmental Justice, Treaty Rights and Indigenous Peoples“The exploitation of the tar sands is a human-rights issue, an environmental-justice issue and an indigenous treaty-rights issue” Clayton Thomas-Muller, writing in the March-April issue of Canadian Dimension: For the most part, however, the public in Canada and the U.S. has not been made sufficiently aware of what is going on in northern Alberta. The public still ...---READ-->>