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Conspicuous consumption and destructive wealth The case of Ira Rennert
There is no question that excessive consumption damages the environment, but are consumers really driving the runaway train? I offer the following as an indication that different drivers are in charge. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
Downstream Community Members to Hold Healing Walk Through Tar Sands Region
On Saturday, August 14th the Keepers of the Athabasca, a network of First Nation, Metis and settler community members along the Athabasca river will host a ‘healing walk’ through the tar sands. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)...
Wet'suwet'en and Unis'toten Nations Rise up Against Big Oil
In this country, known as Canada, which is actually the stolen native land of Turtle Island, Indigenous communities are rising up to join the tide of resistance to neocolonialism by fighting the imposition of pipelines and the tar sands in Western...
Video: Raj Patel on the battle for the world food system
Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved, interviewed by Jill Hickson and Simon Cunich for Green Left Weekly and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)...
Vulture capitalists versus the Global South
Hedge funds, bankers and other speculators are buying everything from farmland to mines across the Global South, fueling exploitation half a world away Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens...
Populationism: A Weapon of Political Conservatives
A promise to rein in population growth is useful for the right wing because it substitutes for the fundamental social and economic changes needed to really deal with these problems. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook...
How Racist Anti-Immigrant Groups are Trying to Recruit Environmentalists
Xenophobes have launched a cynical campaign to recruit environmentalists to their cause by blaming immigrants for urban sprawl and other environmental problems. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on...
Via Campesina Meeting Debates Climate Change and Social Change
Speakers at the “National Encounter for Environmental and Social Justice” in Mexico City discussed key aspects of the global environmental crisis and its impact on the countries and peoples of the global south Share: Click to share on...
41 Countries that Oppose Making Water a Human Right
These are the 41 countries that abstained in the July 28 UN General Assembly vote on Bolivia’s resolution to recognize access to water and sanitation as basic human rights. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click...