On the eve of the Rio+20 UN Conference, community resistance calls attention to Brazilian government's unsustainable energy policy
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Hope triumphs over experience
WWF and Greenpeace think the European Union's failed Emissions Trading System can be repaired. That would be fixing the unfixable.
Introducing Editor's Notebook
I like the redesigned Climate & Capitalism a lot, but it has had one drawback. It's great for publishing essays, news and statements, but ...
The contradictions of environmental Keynesianism
Bill Blackwater: Some environmentalists hope to save the planet with state spending on green projects. But if their proposals succeed economically they will harm the environment, and if they are environmentally sound they will fail economically.
Is 'conspicuous consumption' destroying the earth?
How could socialists not love a book called How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth? Unfortunately, although it is better than most recent books on ecological and social problems, its explanations don't hold water, and the solutions it proposes are...
Barriere Lake Algonquin acquitted; logging company lies exposed
Norman Matchewan of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake has been acquitted of charges related to a 2009 blockade protecting his people’s territory from illegal logging. Representatives of the logging company and the Quebec government were exposed on the...
Top 25 articles in the 'new' Climate and Capitalism'
These are the 25 most-read articles in Climate and Capitalism, in the three months since we launched our new website in cooperation with Monthly Review.
Pakistan: Free the Hunza 5, prisoners of climate change
Baba Jan and his comrades remain in prison for the crime of supporting the victims of devastating floods. They have been tortured and their lives are in danger. Supporters are calling for a week of international solidarity with these socialist...
Pablo Solon: 'Green economy' versus the rights of nature
Humanity is at the edge of a cliff. Instead of recognizing that nature is our home and that we must respect the rights of all members of Earth's community, transnational corporations are promoting more capitalism under the misleadingname of “green...
The people of the world confront the advance of capitalism: Rio +20 and beyond
La Via Campesina position paper: We oppose the commercialization of the earth, our territories, water, seeds, food, nature, and human life. We repudiate and denounce the green economy as a new mask to hide increasing levels of corporate greed and...