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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• Inequality by the numbers
  Fewer than 1% of adults own 70% of all wealth
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• Stop the dash for gas! Activists shut UK power plant
  “This action is in defence of the global commons, which are under sustained attack by polluting fossil fuel companies”
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• The very definition of oil industry madness
  Northern Gateway plan: ship oil through an active earthquake zone
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• Tar sands come to Ontario: No Line 9!
  Join me at this important day of resistance, education, and alternatives in Toronto, November 17
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• Video: Exposing the REDD hoax
  The UN promotes a perverse and potentially genocidal forest offset scam
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• Feminism and the global fight for food sovereignty
  Although La Via Campesina was initially formed and led by men, rural women have dramatically increased their participation in all levels and activities of the global peasant organization. A feminist perspective has emerged as a fundamental component of the fight for food and land.
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• Stop land grabbing for agribusiness in Mozambique
  National Peasants Union: “We vehemently condemn any initiative which aims to resettle communities and expropriate the land of peasants to give way to mega farming projects for monocrop production”
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• Bolivia condemns UN's pro-market biodiversity policy
  Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation to CBD: “Everything connected with nature is being commodified, putting at risk the livelihoods of indigenous and local people, and of the common goods.”
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• Thousands rally against B.C. pipelines
  “One thing I can say right off the bat is: we’re winning…”
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• Corporate giants reap billions from hunger
  The world’s farms produce more than enough feed everyone well, but big business control of the food system condemns hundreds of millions to constant hunger, and starves 2.5 million children to death every year.
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• Spell it out: No fracking!
  Illawarra, Australia: 3000 activists build a huge human sign
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• Editors resign from leading environment journal
  Statement of collective withdrawal, protesting “a gross violation of academic freedom, scholarly standards, scientific responsibility, and business ethics.”
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• UK activists expose Canada's tarred reputation
  Environment Minister Peter Kent gets an unexpected welcome in London
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• Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty
  An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture.
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• The biggest mass poisoning in history
  77 million Bangladeshis are drinking arsenic-affected water. The arsenic is naturally occurring, but the failure to stop it, and the resulting health disaster, have deep social causes.
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• Would you swim in a tar sand pit?
  What if they pretend it’s a lake?
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• '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.”
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• Video: Sydney demo demands "Stop Coal Seam Gas"
  A thousand marchers form a human sign to protest fracking
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• 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”
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• Ethiopia: World Bank promotes forcible 'resettlement' of indigenous people
  To 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.
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