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Indigenous Conference Sounds Climate Warning

“Most Indigenous Peoples today live oppressed existences as minority groups within states. Climate change for them layers another potentially crushing pressure on top of many others” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...

Leon Trotsky and Ecology

A reply to a “green” critique of  the Russian revolutionary leader’s views on progress and nature Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens...

Agriculture G8 = more hunger and poverty

Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to...

Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World

In Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd...

Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!

Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009. The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by...

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health

After years of denial by the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says:”climate change is an enormous problem” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...

Review: Climate Wars

Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada. Toronto, 2008. ISBN 9780307355836. 272 pages. C$34.95. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...

Let Them Eat Junk

A new book explores the economics of our food system … Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens...

UK gov't advisors call for a new society

“The market was not undone by rogue individuals or the turning of a blind eye by incompetent regulators. It was undone by growth itself.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...