By George Monbiot Published in the Guardian 6th November 2007 Full article from www.monbiot.com It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute...
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Richest Countries Must Cut Emissions Fast and Deep
From Inter Press Service, Nov. 5, 2007 By Imelda Abano NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (IPS) – The world’s richest countries must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate climate change impacts, says the lead author of a United...
The Environmental Movement in the Global South : The Pivotal Agent in the Fight against Global Warming
By Warden Bello Walden Bello is Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Development Studies at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada ; Professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines (Diliman) ; and senior analyst and former...
'Serious and Dangerous Deficiencies' in IPCC Biofuel Recommendations
By far the weakest of this year’s reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the report on Mitigation. The latest challenge comes in a letter from five leading climate scientists to the IPCC chair that identifies...
Global Food Crisis Looms
From The Guardian, Saturday November 3 2007 John Vidal, environment editor Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods...
California Wildfires: The Collision of Capitalism and Nature
From Socialist Worker (U.S.), November 2, 2007 Despite their nonstop coverage, nearly all of the media accounts of the wildfires in Southern California missed the deeper causes of the catastrophe–years of destructive land development driven by...
'Greenwash Guerrillas' Invade New York City Carbon Trading Expo
New York City – Protesters with Rising Tide North America’s “Greenwash Guerrillas” paid a surprise Halloween visit to the Carbon Market Insights conference in New York City today. Posing as delegates, two protesters took the stage at the exclusive...
If socialism needs a prefix, it should be ‘revolutionary’ rather than ‘eco’
Continuing our series of articles and statements reflecting a wide range of Left Views on ecology, socialism, and ecosocialism. Permanent Revolution reviews Ecosocialism or Barbarism. “Shaking off the productivist dross of Marxism” Ecosocialism or...
Air Travel and Climate Change. Why Taxes Aren't the Answer
by Jonathan Neale From Socialist Worker (UK) October 20 2007 Tackling climate change means cutting carbon emissions drastically. We have to start now – that’s clear. But there’s confusion over what to do about air travel. Half of global carbon...
UN Environment Report: Major threats to the planet put humanity at risk
(Abridged from UNEP’s October 25 News Release) The United Nations Environment Programme says that major threats to the planet such as climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the...