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- Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessmentWhatever the slipperiness of its meaning, usage, or connotation over time, liberalism is and has always been, at bottom, a defence of capitalism. If we are serious about addressing climate change, it is long past time to move forward beyond liberalism and beyond social democracy.---READ-->>
- Arctic climate change causing droughts, floods, and heat waves outside the northA new study shows that rapid Arctic warming exerts a growing influence on the weather far beyond the Arctic Circle raising the probability of long-duration extreme events for many years to come.---READ-->>
- Lakotas launch hunger strike against tar sands pipelinesMembers of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota have launched a 48-hour hunger strike against the Keystone and Gateway pipelines, in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia---READ-->>
- Ontario: Indigenous resistance turns back mining assault on sovereigntyFirm resistance by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has forced the Ontario government to buy out mining leases, preventing another assault on Indigenous rights and lands---READ-->>
- The four laws of ecology and the four anti-ecological laws of capitalismThe ever-growing conflict between ecology and capitalism reflects the startling degree to which profit-making has become the primary and most powerful connection between human beings and between human beings and nature.---READ-->>
- "We are the one percent!" Cops evict 'polluters'Video: On March 24, mock corporate representatives erected an illegal occupation — and the NYPD forces that usually defend the interests of the 1% had to evict the “corporate polluters” from UN grounds---READ-->>
- Dirty Money: The true cost of Australia’s mineral boomA valuable book that exposes the brutal devastation caused by mining companies and identifies the tycoons who benefit, the monsters in our midst.---READ-->>
- Canadian Dimension review of Too Many People?reviewed by Judy Deutsch. “Too Many People” is invaluable for people concerned about climate change, climate justice, environmental racism, and system change.---READ-->>
- Saving resources and the environment: A modest proposalby Fred Magdoff. If population growth is causing the environmental crisis, here’s a simple 3-step solution that would actually work …---READ-->>
- Riots and role modelsA UK government report blames last year’s riots on the participants’ “materialism and consumerism.” They couldn’t possibly have learned such anti-social values from Britain’s ruling class. Could they?---READ-->>
- Occupy climate change!Occupy Wall Street is calling for a month of action leading up to Earth Day on April 22, to draw the Occupy movements further into the struggle to protect the climate, and to show the connections between the power of the 1% and the destruction of the planet---READ-->>
- George Novack: The mission of humankind“The present inhabitants of the earth are the raw material for the production of an authentically human race.”---READ-->>
- Michael Lebowitz: In the beginning is the dream“That dream moves us – even as we catch only fleeting glimpses.”---READ-->>
- In Harm's WayA new report from the IPCC provides extensive evidence that climate change is already increasing the frequency of droughts, floods, heatwaves and other extreme events, and shows how that combines with societal vulnerabilities to produce human disasters.---READ-->>
- On the origins of green liberalismHow did the strange idea that individual actions and capitalist markets can save the world become the dominant ideology of mainstream environmentalism? Historian Ted Steinberg traces the rise of green liberalism from the counterculture of the 1970s to the White House.---READ-->>
- Emissions from tar sands will be worse than expectedThe oil giants, and the governments that supposedly regulate them, frequently claim that after mining the Alberta tar sands they will restore the area to its previous condition. They are lying---READ-->>
- No Rain in the Amazon: How South America’s climate change affects the entire planetBook Review: Nikolas Kozloff documents environmental destruction in Peru and Brazil, and shows its global impact---READ-->>
- Can capitalism survive the end of growth?Book review. Richard Heinberg shows that if business as usual continues, life in a degrowth economy will be painful for everyone but the very rich, but he stops short of calling for radical system change.---READ-->>
- Green energy won't save the earth without social changeThe most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But will that work?---READ-->>
- Ocean damage from climate change will cost $2 trillion a yearSome things are too valuable to be assigned meaningful prices. Rather than asking the impossible question of what the ocean itself is worth, a new study asks what ocean-related costs could be avoided by rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions.---READ-->>