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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• Corporate land grabs intensify third world hunger
  In many of the countries where millions are starving, multinationals and foreign governments have taken over prime land for export crops, squeezing out small farmers
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• 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.
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• Walmart versus the earth
  Walmart spends millions claiming to be green. It lies.
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• 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.”
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• 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”
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• The Citizen Scientist
  Barry 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.
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• First Nation challenges Shell tar sands expansion
  Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says provincial government and Shell have violated their treaty rights. “We’re going to fight your projects tooth and nail.”
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• International Coal Group: More lies told by lying liars
  The mining giant lied more than 20,000 times
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• Arctic ice melt, psychopathic capitalism, and the corporate media
  Corporate 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.
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• 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.”
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• 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.
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• 'The greatest environmentalist of the 20th century'
  Articles and quotes honoring and remembering Barry Commoner, 1917-2012
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• A 1970 call for mass action against polluters
  From 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.”
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• 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.
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• Agnotology
  Counting the lies told by lying liars at News Corp.
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• Climate change vs food security: a bleak future for the poor
  For developing countries, a future of more frequent and intense extreme weather, reducing food availability and raising prices, means a downward spiral of worsening food insecurity and deepening poverty.
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• Carbon trade markets collapsing
  Carbon trading was supposed to save the climate, but it’s all hot air
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• The Great White North isn't green
  Canada and climate change by the numbers
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• A nuanced analysis of China's environmental crises
  Judith Shapiro has laid out well the enormous environmental challenges facing the people of China If there is to be a sustainable future, they will have to be at the forefront of fighting for it.
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• Counterfire review of Too Many People?
  Too Many People? rebuts claims that population is the source of environmental crisis. Since capitalism is the problem, the fight for a sustainable society must be at the centre of the struggle against austerity
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