From New Delhi Television (NDTV) Friday, August 24, 2007Alexandria: Millions of Egyptians could be forced permanently from their homes, the country’s ability to feed itself devastated.That’s what likely awaits this already impoverished...
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Ecuador Seeks to Leave Amazon Oil Underground
by Kintto Lucas from Inter Press News Service QUITO, Aug 23 (IPS) – The innovative offer by the government of Ecuador to refrain from exploiting its largest oil reserve, in exchange for international compensation for nature conservation, is...
Police Provocateurs Exposed at Quebec Demonstration (Updated)
Almost all of the press coverage of protests against the Bush-Harper-Calderon summit in Quebec this week has focused on a tiny group of “rock throwing anarchists.” Here’s the real story … Photo from Canadian Union of Public Employees. Captions added...
What Will APEC Do About Climate Change? Nothing.
The Sydney Morning Herald has obtained a copy of the “Draft Outline of APEC Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development.” It can be downloaded HERE. (Warning: Although it’s only 8 pages long, this is a 19 Mbyte file...
Joel Kovel: The first two steps to ecosocialism
[Quotes and Insights #2] “However uncertain the end point, the first two steps on the path are clearly laid out, and are within the reach of every conscientious person. These are that people ruthlessly criticize the capitalist system...
Canada: Oilsands Emissions Double In 15 Years
From The Edmonton Journal, Aug 5, 2007, via Tar Sands Watch by Duncan Thorne EDMONTON – Greenhouse gases from oilsands production have doubled in just 15 years, driven by soaring United States demand for oil, reveals the latest inventory of...
Global Warming Makes the Case for Socialism
by Zoe Kenny From Green Left Weekly, August 22, 2007 Twenty years ago, a UN special commission produced a report, Our Common Future, that predicted rising CO2 levels would lead to a mean temperature increase of up to 4.5oC within 50 years, which...
Karl Marx: Our duty to the earth and the future
[Quotes and Insights #1] A previous post quotes top NASA climate scientist James Hansen on the importance of viewing our relationship to the earth as a “usufruct” — a right to use, but also a responsibility to preserve for future...
Usufruct
“Usufruct is the legal right to use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person, as long as the property is not damaged. In many legal systems of property, buyers of property may only purchase the usufruct of the...
Stop the Presses! NASA Error Equals One-Thousandth of a Degree
The conservative press has had a field day with the revelation that NASA made a calculation error in its annual temperature figures. Multiple columnists have loudly declared that this proves that global warming is a hoax. The Political Animal blog...