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- This is the planet that capitalism is destroying …A stunning timelapse video of photographs taken from the International Space Station Photos taken 240 miles above Earth from the International Space Station by astronaut Ron Garan, combined by German artist Michael Konig…---READ-->>
- Shell versus human rights in the Niger DeltaShell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed groups who destroyed Nigerian towns, according to a new report Global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed militants, according to a new report published by Platform, a UK charity that campaigns for ...---READ-->>
- Obama's inaction threatens climate disasterBy its disinclination to interfere in the workings of America’s neoliberal capitalist economy, Washington is guiding the world toward irreversible climate change by Jack A. Smith The Obama Administration has largely remained passive about the critical imperative to reduce greenhouse gases to limit catastrophic global warming. Washington continues to insist upon exercising world leadership in all key global ...---READ-->>
- Too Many People? A book review from New Zealand“An ever-necessary reminder that the world’s poor are the first victims of ecological disaster, not the cause.” Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011. reviewed by Bryan Walker Hot Topic, November 12, 2011 Reprinted with permission from the reviewer, an environmentalist based in Hamilton, New Zealand. In 1932 I was born into ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous movements and the fight against climate changeNo one feels the urgency of climate change more than Indigenous Peoples, who live in the most diverse and fragile ecosystems remaining in the world. They have become increasingly vocal and visible inside and outside the official climate negotiations. By Ben Powless Ben Powless is a Mohawk citizen living in Ottawa. He has just finished working on a ...---READ-->>
- Green lifestyle choices won’t solve the climate problem“Contrary to the famous Dick Cheney quote, energy efficiency is not a matter of personal virtue. The answer to collective political failure is political action.” by Gar Lipow Grist, Nov. 8, 2011 Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, aka the Greenie Pig, is feeling guilty about her plane trip to a friend’s wedding and decided to try to make up for it ...---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein: Saving the climate requires profound social changeRight-wing climate change deniers aren’t wrong about everything. For example, when they warn that making the emissions cuts scientists say are needed will require radical and economic change … by Naomi Klein The Nation, November 8, 2011 The deniers did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot. They arrived at this ...---READ-->>
- 2010 greenhouse gases higher than IPCC's worst case“A horrible legacy for our children and grandchildren” Guardian, Nov. 4 2011 The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide has jumped by a record amount, according to the US department of energy, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher ...---READ-->>
- Interview: Patrick Bond on the Durban Conference of PollutersKyoto will likely pass away in 2012, except for the emissions trading schemes which capitalists can use for profit. What we do outside the Durban conference will be very important Noted South African activist and scholar says Patrick Bond there are really two streams of environmental thought and action regarding the ongoing United Nations climate talks, ...---READ-->>
- Lifestyles of the rich and hypocriticalPrince Charles thinks people should consume less. Other people, that is … Is any group of people more hypocritical than the British royal family? Last year, Prince Charles told a public meeting in Oxford: “wherever you look, the world’s population is increasing fast. It goes up by the equivalent of the entire population of the United Kingdom every year. ...---READ-->>
- Tar sands industry admits impact of pipeline protestsThe dedicated organizing of countless activists, including those arrested in Washington and Ottawa, is being felt by governments and industry. We can stop the pipeline! Tar Sands Action, October 31, 2011 Yesterday we got some of the strongest confirmation yet that efforts to stop the Keystone XL pipeline are having a long-term impact on the tar sands ...---READ-->>
- The U.S. auto industry's Big LieThere has never been anything resembling serious public debate of basic U.S. transportation policy Introduction by Ian Angus Last week, Simon Butler and I wrote a article for Grist titled Is the environmental crisis caused by the 7 Billion or the 1%? It has been reposted on a variety of places, including the popular Drum Opinion site ...---READ-->>
- After Occupy Wall Street, isn’t it time for Occupy Earth?by Chip Ward TomDispatch, October 27, 2011 What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planet’s life-support systems — its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere — goes hand in hand with the accumulation of wealth, power, and control by that corrupt and greedy 1% we are hearing about from ...---READ-->>
- CBC radio gives a platform to populationismQuirks and Quarks lets overpopulation ideology masquerade as science by Ian Angus Quirks and Quarks is a weekly science program broadcast across Canada on CBC Radio. The format is simple: host Bob McDonald interviews scientists about their latest work and discoveries. Usually there are 3 or 4 interviews in the hour. To say I like it would be ...---READ-->>
- John Bellamy Foster: Capitalism and environmental catastropheWe need an ecological and social revolution. You may say that this is impossible, but the World Occupy Movement would have been declared impossible only a month ago. From a talk by John Bellamy Foster, co-author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism, at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” at ...---READ-->>
- St. Louis Greens: We march with and are part of Occupy!A Green economy would create things that we need and things that endure. It would not build things that designed to kill other people in order to steal their oil October 25, 2011 – The Green Party of St. Louis endorses, marches ...---READ-->>
- David Harvey on the Occupy Wall Street movementThe movement triggered by Occupy Wall Street is crucial to our collective future. It shows us that the collective power of bodies in public space is still the most effective instrument of opposition when all other means of access are blocked. REBELS ON THE STREET: THE PARTY OFWALL STREET MEETS ITS NEMESIS by David Harvey from Reading Marx’s Capital with ...---READ-->>
- Population, consumer sovereignty, and the importance of classThe debate following our article in Grist reveals that many greens have a blindspot about class. Blaming the world’s problems on too many people makes little sense when one-half of one percent of the world’s population owns nearly 40% of all wealth and controls most of the rest by Ian Angus This week, the environmental website site ...---READ-->>
- The war against climate science unravelsLast week’s release of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study delivered a decisive blow to the edifice of climate skepticism, but don’t expect the deniers to give up… by Kelly Rigg Executive Director, Global Campaign for Climate Action Huffington Post, October 26, 2011 The skeptic case against climate change is unraveling before our eyes like someone walking away from an old sweater, ...---READ-->>
- What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1%?Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% This article, published today on the environmental website Grist, has provoked a vigorous discussion there. Many of the comments defend variations of the “consumer sovereignty” ...---READ-->>