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- Australia: Aboriginal Communities Will Be Most Hurt By Climate ChangeBy Rosslyn Beeby From The Canberra Times, November 26, 2007 Australia’s northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with increases in water-borne diseases and loss of traditional food sources, an international report says. In the Torres Strait Islands, at least 8000 people will lose their homes if sea levels rise by 1m. Community leaders have ...---READ-->>
- Rich Nations Renege on Promised Climate Change AidBy David AdamFrom The Guardian, November 24, 2007A group of rich countries including Britain has broken a promise to pay more than a billion dollars to help the developing world cope with the effects of climate change. The group agreed in 2001 to pay $1.2bn (£600m) to help poor and vulnerable countries predict and plan ...---READ-->>
- Indonesia: Biofuel Threatens Indigenous Farmers and Tropical ForestsFrom The Australian, November 24, 2007 Elderly ethnic Dayak farmer Hussin sits on the raised timber floor of his home, a shack on 6ha of mixed forest, itself nestled in thousands of hectares of oil palm plantation.Hussin (“I’m probably 65 or 70, I’d say”) and his wife, Barnian, are holdouts against the relentless march of Indonesia’s ...---READ-->>
- The Public Route to Sustainable HomesGlyn Robbins is a member of Unite, the largest manufacturing union in Britain, and a supporter of Defend Council Housing. This article is a contribution to the discussion at the coming Trade Union Conference on Climate Change, to be held at the University of London on February 9, 2008. For more information on the Conference, phone ...---READ-->>
- How Can an Effective Climate Change Movement be Built?From Green Left Weekly, Nov. 16 2007 by Kamala Emanuel (Kamala Emanuel is a Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in New South Wales, in this week’s election in Australia) November 11’s national Walk Against Warming was an important initiative for the climate change movement. It was smaller than the 100,000 people organizers had hoped for, but ...---READ-->>
- Droughts, floods, hunger, malnutrition, disease, extinctions, fires, storms ….The IPCC Synthesis Report, published November 17, describes these as “some examples of projected regional impacts.” Bear in mind that IPCC reports are consistently conservative. Quoting pages 10 and 11 … Africa • By 2020, between 75 and 250 million of people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change; • By 2020, ...---READ-->>
- Conference Report: "From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice"By John Riddell John Riddell is co-editor of Socialist Voice NOVEMBER 17 — Today the Toronto Climate Campaign organized a teach-in called “From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice,” a building action for the December 8 global day of environmental action. About 100 attended — mostly young, and a high proportion engaged in some wing of the environmental ...---READ-->>
- IPCC: "Abrupt or Irreversible Climate Changes and Impacts"From Agence France Presse The UN’s Nobel-winning panel on climate change on Friday completed a draft report that said the consequences of global warming could be far-reaching and irreversible. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) encapsulates a massive review of the global-warming issue, with the goal of guiding policymakers for the next five ...---READ-->>
- "Climate Sceptics" Whine About Bias — But Where is the Evidence?By Richard Black From BBC News Of all the accusations made by the vociferous community of climate sceptics, surely the most damaging is that science itself is biased against them. That was a view I put forward nearly a year ago now in another article for the BBC News website, and nothing has changed my mind since. The year ...---READ-->>
- Australians Walk Against WarmingNovember 11, 2007. http://youtu.be/rgIMml7ySfs The article below is from news.com.au THOUSANDS of people have marched through Australia’s streets today for the second annual Walk Against Warming, calling for greater action on climate change and renewable energy targets. In Sydney, organisers said crowd marshals counted more than 28,000 people in the city’s Domain and on a round-trip walk through the ...---READ-->>
- 2007 – Year of Climate Catastropheby Phil Hearse From Marxsite For the small hard-core climate change deniers, no amount of evidence will make much difference. But there is evidence aplenty that in 2007 environmental damage has been accumulating because of global warming, and doing major damage to communities, nations and continents. As ever, it has been the poor who have been the ...---READ-->>
- Paraguay: The Dark Side of the Soy BoomFrom Inter Press Service, Nov. 8, 2007 By David VargasASUNCIÓN, Nov 8 (IPS) – A sea of green stretches as far as the eye can see on both sides of the dirt road leading to the communities of Lima, Capiibary and Guayaibí, 250 km from the capital, in the northern Paraguayan department (province) of San Pedro, ...---READ-->>
- Nov. 10: Conference on Ecosocialism in MontrealJournée de Conferences Socialisme Vert ou Écologie Rouge Vers l’écosocialisme? Samedi, 10 novembre 2007 Conférence : Entrée libre et gratuite UQÀM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin 400, Rue Sainte-Catherine Est Local-A-1340Conférence avec: 9h30 : Mobilisations écologistes : Kyoto, Rabaska… Par Daniel Breton et André Bélisle 11h00 : Développement durable et écosocialisme Par Jean-Claude Balu et Roger Rashi 12h30 : Dîner 13h30 : À la racine des choses Par Louise-Caroline Bergeron 14h30 : ...---READ-->>
- Green Party of Ontario: from Bottom-Up to Top-DownIntroduction: During my recent trip to Europe, several green left activists asked me about the Green Party in Canada. I replied that although it was once seen as a force for radical change, it is now an electoralist party with an ecocapitalist program. I quoted the Green Party of Ontario leader’s frequent assertion that the ...---READ-->>
- Biofuel: An Agricultural Crime Against HumanityBy George Monbiot Published in the Guardian 6th November 2007 Full article from www.monbiot.com It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its ...---READ-->>
- Richest Countries Must Cut Emissions Fast and DeepFrom Inter Press Service, Nov. 5, 2007 By Imelda Abano NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (IPS) – The world’s richest countries must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate climate change impacts, says the lead author of a United Nations report, due for release later this month, that focuses on impacts of global warming on the developing ...---READ-->>
- The Environmental Movement in the Global South : The Pivotal Agent in the Fight against Global WarmingBy Warden Bello Walden Bello is Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Development Studies at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada ; Professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines (Diliman) ; and senior analyst and former executive director of Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, Thailand. The developing world’s stance towards the question of the environment has ...---READ-->>
- 'Serious and Dangerous Deficiencies' in IPCC Biofuel RecommendationsBy far the weakest of this year’s reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the report on Mitigation. The latest challenge comes in a letter from five leading climate scientists to the IPCC chair that identifies “serious and dangerous deficiencies” in its discussion of biofuels, and asks that parts of it be withdrawn.The ...---READ-->>
- Global Food Crisis LoomsFrom The Guardian, Saturday November 3 2007 John Vidal, environment editor Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to artificially control the cost ...---READ-->>
- California Wildfires: The Collision of Capitalism and NatureFrom Socialist Worker (U.S.), November 2, 2007 Despite their nonstop coverage, nearly all of the media accounts of the wildfires in Southern California missed the deeper causes of the catastrophe–years of destructive land development driven by the thirst for profit, and the failure of politicians to do anything to protect the environment or residents’ safety.Mike ...---READ-->>