Because of Latin America’s natural wealth, the region is a great supplier of commodities, food and energy to industrialized economies; and, at the same time, the wealthier countries try to transfer the environmental costs of the dirtiest...
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Daniel Dorling: Are the super-rich human?
[Quotes and Insights #11] “Places rarely suffer from having too many people, but frequently suffer from a few people taking far too much. By early 2008 it became evident that preceding the economic crash, the acquisition of most of the world’s...
Bill McKibben's Eaarth
Earth has died … but Eaarth offers few solutions Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a...
Sonia Shah: Oiling the war machine
[Quotes and Insights #10] “The U.S. military consumes about 85 million barrels of oil a year, making it the biggest single consumer of fuel in the country and perhaps the world. Accordng to an interdisciplinary panel convened by the Defense Science...
The Latin American Left and Indigenous Autonomy
The two kinds of lefts – the parties that have achieved power in the various states and the indigenista movements in the various states – do not have identical objectives and use quite different ideological language Share: Click to share...
Did Consumers Cause the BP Oil Disaster?
Liberal journalists, pale greens and others are trivializing the BP/Deepwater oil spill and distracting attention from the social roots of environmental destruction. It’s time to dump the myth of ‘consumer sovereignty’ Share: Click...
News and Video: Australians Walk Against Warming
August 15, 2010. Walk With the People, Not the Big Polluters Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to...
Is Africa Still Being Looted?
In a debate broadcast on Canada’s CBC radio network last week, a leading World Bank official defended neo-liberal policies, denied the reality of African economics, and even ignored the Bank’s own research Share: Click to share on...
Ecosocialism, Mumia and MOVE
Despite decades of imprisonment, Mumia Abu-Jamal remains a prophet — a voice articulating a politics that challenges capitalism and imperialism while speaking for the earth. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to...
U.S. Cities: Too Hot, and Getting Hotter
Excerpts from a new supplement to the National Wildlife Federation’s 2009 report More Extreme Heat Waves: Global Warming’s Wake-Up Call Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)...