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- Would you swim in a tar sand pit?What if they pretend it’s a lake?---READ-->>
- 'For a class struggle approach to climate change and energy transition'South African Metalworkers Union: “Reducing global warming requires fundamental restructuring of the capitalist system. At the centre of such restructuring is the question of who owns the means of energy production, transmission, distribution and consumption.”---READ-->>
- Video: Sydney demo demands "Stop Coal Seam Gas"A thousand marchers form a human sign to protest fracking---READ-->>
- Invasion of Iraq causes epidemic of birth defects“You’ve thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled, Fear to bring children into the world”---READ-->>
- Ethiopia: World Bank promotes forcible 'resettlement' of indigenous peopleTo enable corporate land grabs, indigenous peoples in Ethiopia are being driven off their fertile ancestral lands and forced into new villages where there is little access to food or arable land.---READ-->>
- Corporate land grabs intensify third world hungerIn many of the countries where millions are starving, multinationals and foreign governments have taken over prime land for export crops, squeezing out small farmers---READ-->>
- Scientists: There is no such thing as "safe fracking"The latest science confirms serious health and pollution risks with shale gas. Researchers call for tight restrictions, oppose large-scale fracking operations.---READ-->>
- Walmart versus the earthWalmart spends millions claiming to be green. It lies.---READ-->>
- Duncan's First Nation: New oil spill shows Alberta pipelines are NOT in hand“The situation that is unfolding on our front door step shows the disregard that Alberta and the oil industry have for the environment and the rights of our community and other communities.”---READ-->>
- Central America: One degree rise means disaster for one million farmers“Even with our most conservative estimates, it’s clear that climate change could transform the agricultural landscape across Central America”---READ-->>
- The Citizen ScientistBarry Commoner not believe that a just society could be founded on ecological principles alone, but had to take into account issues of social justice, such as racism, sexism, war and economic inequality.---READ-->>
- First Nation challenges Shell tar sands expansionAthabasca Chipewyan First Nation says provincial government and Shell have violated their treaty rights. “We’re going to fight your projects tooth and nail.”---READ-->>
- International Coal Group: More lies told by lying liarsThe mining giant lied more than 20,000 times---READ-->>
- Arctic ice melt, psychopathic capitalism, and the corporate mediaCorporate media, which ought to be sounding the alarm, continues to deny or minimize the danger of climate catastrophe. Greens and lefts must build independent alternatives.---READ-->>
- Barry Commoner: scientist, activist, radical ecologist“If the environment is polluted and the economy is sick, the virus that causes both will be found in the system of production. And that is where their cure can be found as well.”---READ-->>
- Do carbon offsets reduce emissions?Some sincere environmentalists believe that markets in carbon offsets will slow climate change. In fact, as Chris Lang of REDD-Monitor explains, carbon offsets are at best a zero sum game.---READ-->>
- 'The greatest environmentalist of the 20th century'Articles and quotes honoring and remembering Barry Commoner, 1917-2012---READ-->>
- A 1970 call for mass action against pollutersFrom the archives: “We must build a movement which can combat pollution not only on the street and in the factories, but in solidarity with every other struggle against the ruling class.”---READ-->>
- Barry Commoner: 'Pollution begins in the boardroom, not the bedroom'When most writers were blaming individual behaviour or overpopulation for pollution, this pioneering radical environmentalist exposed the role of capitalism and profit.---READ-->>
- AgnotologyCounting the lies told by lying liars at News Corp.---READ-->>