Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson on climate change talks at the APEC meeting… That Kyoto miscreants Australia and Canada should be considered driving forces toward a communiqué consensus on climate change ranges between the laughable...
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Voluntary actions didn't get us civil rights, and they won't fix the climate
By Mike Tidwell Mike Tidwell is director of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network based in Takoma Park, Md. Strange but true: Energy-efficient light bulbs and hybrid cars are hurting our nation’s budding...
Colombia: Ecocide for Fuel
The expansion of agrofuel mono-cultures, mainly for biodiesel, is threatening the lives, livelihoods and lands of Afro-Colombian and peasant communities and indigenous people Introduction by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch Below is a new email alert...
Ecuador’s Oil Proposal: An Important Initiative
A previous post on Climate and Capitalism, from Inter Press Service, introduced Ecuador’s proposal to block the exploitation of oil reserves in its Amazon region in exchange for compensation from the global North.Stuart Munckton is a frequent...
Ecology Against Capitalism
“An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.” — John Bellamy Foster Who says Marx wasn’t green? John Bellamy Foster. Ecology Against Capitalism. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2002. 160 pages. reviewed...
Canada Helps Block Agreement on Emissions
At the Vienna negotiations on climate change this week, Canada played a key role in preventing agreement on goals for greenhouse gas emissions. Over 100 governments reluctantly agreed that cuts of 25 to 40 percent are needed, but set no binding...
Biofuels and the Impending Climate Catastrophe
By Pete Ashley From Permanent Revolution, August 18, 2007 As the impending climate change catastrophe grows in scale and urgency, politicians feel the need to be seen to be “doing something”. This largely consists of launching schemes which avoid...
How Capitalism “Solves” a Climate Crisis
By Ian Angus There have been many debates, on this blog and elsewhere, about whether global warming can be “solved” in a capitalist framework. Many people have proposed plans to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions without radical social change...
Monbiot Says Global Revolutionary Change Required
From George Monbiot’s speech at the Camp for Climate Change in London Aug. 18. George Monbiot is the author of the climate change bestseller Heat, and a columnist for the U.K. Guardian. From UK Indymedia I’m going to start with some bad...
Savage Capitalism -the Ecosocialist Alternative (Summary)
by Ian Angus (Note: the following article was originally posted in three installments. I have merged it into one post to simplify reading and printing) (Update, Sept. 2 2007: I understand that “Savage Capitalism” was approved by the AGM...