[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...
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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...
International Ecosocialist Meeting: Update #2
Important information for participants in the ecosocialist meeting in Paris in October. This Update includes the location of the event and a Provisional Agenda, as well as information that was previously posted. Purpose: This meeting is a very...
'The Future Has to Be Red-Green' An Interview With Derek Wall
Derek Wall is a writer, an economist, and currently the Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the author of several books including Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative...
FAO: Climate Change Likely to Increase Risk of Hunger
A news release issued August 7 by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization: Climate change is likely to undermine food production in the developing world, while industrialized countries could gain in production potential, FAO...
Some Questions About Ecosocialism
This article was submitted this as a comment on Joel Kovel’s article Why Ecosocialism Today? I am publishing it as a separate article because it raises important questions that ecosocialists need to consider carefully. by Jeff White Re: Joel...