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- Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our waterOver half of all of the fresh, surface water withdrawn from the environment in the U.S. today is used by power companies. They take the profits, and society pays the price.---READ-->>
- The video Enbridge doesn't want you to seeWhen Enbridge threatened to cancel a $5 million advertising campaign, the Vancouver Province immediately removed this satire from its website.---READ-->>
- Capitalist accumulation, illustratedIn 1896, this artist got it exactly right---READ-->>
- Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coinEurope’s pro-biofuel policies are taking food from the mouths of millions of people in central America, causing severe malnutrition and increasing child mortality---READ-->>
- Monbiot: Rio+20 produces 283 paragraphs of fluff190 governments express “deep concern” about the world’s environmental crises, but don’t plan to do anything about them.---READ-->>
- A tale of two conferences: The social and ecological crises of capitalismIn Mexico and Brazil, the capitalist elite discusses how to continue exploiting humans and the natural world in the service of profit, while cloaking their intentions in the benign language of growth, development and sustainability.---READ-->>
- Canada, US, and Vatican unite against human rights at Rio+20Amnesty International describes “a shameful alliance against making a commitment to human rights”---READ-->>
- Video: Canadian youth activist opens People's Plenary in RioCameron Fenton: “Without a full turn around by world leaders and their representatives Rio is set to go down in history as one of the most colossal failures on on climate change and environmental protection.”---READ-->>
- Raul Castro at Rio+20: "The only alternative is to build more just societies""Cuban President Raul Castro told the UN conference in Rio de Janeiro, that the rich countries cannot continue living well at the expense of the poor.---READ-->>
- Thousands march through Rio to demand climate action from UNTens of thousands of protesters joined an enormous demonstration through the centre of the Rio de Janeiro, to demand economic justice and action over climate change.---READ-->>
- Bolivian activists: This is not "The future we want"All governments must reject this agreement and halt the negotiations process until concrete commitments are made to replace the neo-liberal model with one based on fair development in harmony with nature and the philosophy of Living Well (Vivir Bien)---READ-->>
- Rio+20: The earth summit heads for 'epic failure'“Abandon hope all ye who enter here” should have been written over the entrance to the Rio+20 summit.---READ-->>
- Rio +20 has nothing to say on REDD (and not much on anything else)If the draft text is accepted in its current form, Rio +20 will go down in history to be followed inevitably by the word failure.---READ-->>
- Lethal ingredients in the Rio+20 mocktailThe advocates of Green Economy never acknowledge that today’s crises have been caused by dangerously polluting industries, the extractive mining sector, chemical industries or industrial agriculture, and carefully ignore the new approaches proposed by countries like Bolivia and Ecuador.---READ-->>
- An ecosocialist statement on Rio+20What can we expect from this so-called “Earth Summit” from a social and ecological perspective? Nothing!---READ-->>
- Big business goes to RioThe best thing to come out of Rio+20 could be the strengthening of social movements in opposition to one of its core ideas. The false green economy’s grand Brazilian showcase might just be the event that helps to trigger its downfall.---READ-->>
- Kari-Oca 2 DeclarationIndigenous Peoples Global Conference on Rio+20 and Mother Earth: The “Green Economy” continues the colonialism we have faced and resisted for 520 years. We cannot allow false solutions to destroy the Earth’s balance, assassinate the seasons, unleash severe weather havoc, privatize life and threaten the very survival of humanity.---READ-->>
- At Rio+20: Values versus pricesPatrick Bond: The Rio+20 Earth Summit under way this week in Brazil is devoted to advancing the ‘Green Economy,’ which is the environmentalism of the rich. For most people and the planet, it will be a disaster.---READ-->>
- Infrastructure for whom?World Bank and G20 megaprojects provide cheap power to giant corporations, bypassing the poor.---READ-->>
- Leftist critics of Ecuador should focus on real enemiesUntil rich countries are held to account for the economic and environmental crimes they have committed, no foreign leftist has a right to denounce the Ecuadorean government led by Rafael Correa for using the country’s natural wealth to meet its peoples’ needs.---READ-->>