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- 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-->>
- Stabilizing Climate Requires Near-Zero EmissionsNew scientific research shows that greenhouse gas emissions cuts must be much steeper than previously thought A paper published in the Geophysical Research Letters (subscription required) says that greenhouse gases must be cut to “near-zero” as quickly as possible. If that isn’t done, future emissions “will commit the climate system to warming that is essentially irreversible.” H. ...---READ-->>
- Population Control and Climate Change, Part Two: The Socialist AlternativeThe world needs radical policies that challenge the economic power of capitalism, not repressive population control measures against the oppressed Part One of this article outlined how, after a 10-year lull, establishment figures are again raising the issue of (enforced) population control as a means of tackling the environmental crisis. Now the focus is on climate ...---READ-->>
- Fourth International Calls for Redefining Socialism as EcosocialismContinuing our series of articles and statements reflecting a wide range of Left Views on ecology, socialism, and ecosocialism. [This draft resolution was approved by a leadership committee of the Fourth International, following a five-day seminar on climate change held in the Netherlands in February. There is a report on the seminar, in French, here. [Acronyms ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Taxes: Nudging the Free Market FairyThe authors of Hot Air believe that a carbon tax will magically stop greenhouse gas emissions. Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge. by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2007. Reviewed by Ian Angus The Church of the Free Market Fairy is divided into two denominations. The fundamentalists believe that the Free ...---READ-->>