Ecosocialist Resources

The Ecosocialist Resources column is published at irregular intervals. It features links to new articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to Climate & Capitalism’s mission and goals.

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  • Why New Labour Supports Expansion of Nuclear Power
    by Phil Ward From Socialist Resistance, October 2007 October 10 sees the end of a public “consultation” to “help the government take a decision on the future of nuclear power in the UK”. The exercise is completely cynical. In February the government was found in court to have prejudged the issue, having held a previous consultation, described ...
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  • A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples
    Declaration of the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World” Translated from America Latina en Movimiento for Bolivia Rising by Richard Fidler. Footnotes added by the translator. A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 12, 2007 From the heart of South America, ...
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  • December 8: International Day of Climate Change Protests
    This call was published by the Global Climate Campaign. Their website includes links to information on protests planned in many countries. Global Climate Campaign http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/ Building a global movement to confront the ultimate global crisis International Demonstrations on Climate Change DECEMBER 8th, 2007 on the Saturday midway through the UN Climate Talks In Bali, Indonesia On December 3rd 2005 during ...
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  • Climate Change will Devastate River Basins Where One Billion Live
    Abstract of an article in the Online Journal of the Ecological Society of America. Subscription required to read entire article. Major rivers worldwide have experienced dramatic changes in flow, reducing their natural ability to adjust to and absorb disturbances. Given expected changes in global climate and water needs, this may create serious problems, including loss of ...
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  • Interview with an Ecosocialist
    Ian Angus was interviewed this month by the Greek socialist newspaper Kokkino (Red). Let’s begin with a large question — what is ecosocialism? ANGUS: Ecosocialism has grown out of two parallel political trends — the spread of Marxist ideas in the green movement and the spread of ecological ideas in the Marxist left. The result is a ...
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  • Ecosocialist International Network (News Release)
    This is the official announcement issued following the international meeting of ecosocialists in Paris, October 7-8  FIRST INTERNATIONAL ECOSOCIALIST MEETING On October 7th and 8th 2007, a group of ecological activists from thirteen countries met in Paris to inaugurate the Ecosocialist International Network. The International Ecosocialist Manifesto, written some years ago by Joel Kovel and Michael Löwy, ...
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  • Ecosocialists Launch International Network
    I’m still exhausted after two days of meetings in Paris, but here is a hastily-written basic outline of the results of the first international meeting of ecosocialists. The Ecosocialist International Network. launched in Paris, France on October 7-8, aims to improve global communication and coordination among activists who are organizing against capitalist ecocide. Participants in the founding ...
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  • The Red and the Green: Part Two – What kind of development?
    Continued from The Red and the Green Part One By William Bowles The word development implies ‘progress’ but by whose definition and anyway, what is progress, and where exactly, are we progressing to? Are the rainforest peoples’ of the Amazon for example, ‘given’ progress when they are forcibly resettled and their forests chopped down (for their ...
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  • World Bank Razed Congo Forests
    by John Vidal, Environment Editor The Guardian Thursday October 4 2007 The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world’s second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. The report by the independent inspection panel, seen by ...
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  • Soil Building: A Better Way to Capture Carbon
    by Michael Perelman Originally published as “Quick Thoughts on Carbon Sequestration” in Unsettling Economics and MRzine. Posted with the author’s permission. Carbon sequestration is an excessively expensive and probably technically impossible method of capturing significant amounts of carbon. Planting trees is another popular suggestion for sequestering carbon, but a more traditional method has not been mentioned to ...
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  • Why Algonquin First Nations Are Blocking Uranium Exploration in Ontario
    A Letter from the the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. August 14, 2007 The Honourable Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Dear Premier McGuinty: We are writing to seek your intervention in the impasse that currently exists with respect to uranium exploration in Algonquin territory. We, ...
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  • Evo Morales: "Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity"
    The following is Bolivian President Evo Morales’ speech to the United Nations meeting on Climate Change, on September 24, 2007. It should be read injunction with Morales’ letter to the UN, posted here previously.  Translation by Climate and Capitalism Thank you. I would like greet the panel, and on behalf of the Bolivian peoples, I want ...
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  • Brazil's Sugar Cane Cutters Pay the Cost of Ethanol
    From 2002 to 2005, 312 workers in the sugar cane and ethanol industries died on the job, and 82,995 suffered accidents while working in cane fields and ethanol plants By Carlos Caminada and Michael Smith (Bloomberg News) International Herald Tribune, October 1, 2007 SÃO PAULO: Manuel Rodrigues da Silva stooped over, wielding a machete to slice through bamboolike ...
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  • Left Victory in Ecuador: Nation's Institutions to be Transformed
    By Roger Burbach From Counterpunch, October 1, 2007 “We have won an historic victory,” proclaimed President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. On Sunday the political coalition he heads won an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Constituent Assembly that is tasked with “refounding” the nation’s institutions. Taking office early this year in a land slide victory, Correa has ...
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  • The Red and The Green, Part One
    (William Bowles has been host of the excellent Investigating New Imperialism (INI) site since 2003. He is now leaving that site as an archive, and has launched Creative-I, which, he hopes will be easier to manage because it uses “all the new publishing tools available.” It is published using WordPress 2.3, a platform that Climate ...
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  • Canadian Mining Company May Be Kicked Out of Ecuador
    by Cyril Mychalejko From Upside Down World, September 27, 2007 The Ecuadorian government ordered Canada’s Ascendant Copper to suspend all activities at its controversial Junin project on Tuesday for violating the country’s mining laws. “We will see how the facts evolve, but eventually this could lead to a revocation,” said Minister of Oil and Mines Galo Chiriboga at ...
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  • Ecuador President Rafael Correa to UN: We Offer to Forsake Oil Revenue, for the Sake of Humanity
    Speech by Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, to the United Nations High Level meeting on Climate Change September 24th, 2007 Madam, Co-Chairs, Ladies and Gentlemen:Please, allow me to express, on behalf of the people of Ecuador and of my Government, how pleased we are that this high-level Dialogue on Climate Change has been convened, and to ...
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  • Cuban Foreign Minister to UN: “A Real Energy Revolution Must Take Place”
    Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, spoke at the UN high-level event on climate change in New York on Monday, September 24 Mr. President: We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. It was a historic moment. There, we took on ...
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  • Evo Morales to U.N.: “Let Us Respect Our Mother Earth"
    Letter from Bolivian President Evo Morales to the members of the United Nations on the issue of the environment. Sister and brother Presidents and Heads of States of the United Nations: The world is suffering from a fever due to climate change, and the disease is the capitalist development model. Whilst over 10,000 years the variation in ...
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  • Ecosocialism for the 21st Century
    Over 100 people attended the public meeting on “Ecosocialism for the 21st Century” in Vancouver, B.C. on Friday September 21, 2007. The speakers were: Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World and editor of the journal Capitalism, Nature Socialism Hugo Blanco, the principal leader of the ...
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