by Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank From Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, both on June 29, 2007. Reprinted in Climate and Capitalism by permission of the authors The environmental movement is on life support. Some would say it is already dead...
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Climate Vandals Prepare A Do-Nothing APEC
by Zoe Kenny From Green Left Weekly, 29 June 2007Two of the world’s worst climate vandals — US President George Bush and PM John Howard — are preparing their lofty green rhetoric in the lead-up to the so-called “climate change” Asia Pacific Economic...
U.K. Socialists Boost Int'l Ecosocialism Meeting, Plan Labour Climate Change Conference
These articles appear in the Summer 2007 issue of the U.K. newspaper Socialist Resistance. Ecosocialists To Launch New International by Derek Wall Derek Wall is the Green Party of England and Wales Principal Speaker. In what promises to be a...
"Not to laugh, not to weep, but to understand"
From Inhabitable Earth, June 9, 2007 “Not to Laugh, Not to Weep, But to Understand” As Leon Trotsky said of the Stalinist betrayal of the Russian Revolution and everything it achieved, the task is “not to laugh, not to weep, but to...
Why the Market Cannot Solve the Environment Crisis
By Tony Iltis From Green Left Weekly, June 29, 2007 The good news is that Australian politicians and corporations are finally recognising that there is an environmental crisis. The bad news is that the “solutions” being promoted by the establishment...
The Slavery of Climate Change
By Saleemul Huq From Science Alert – Australia and New Zealand June 29, 2007 Tackling climate change is like ending slavery. Climate change threatens to wreck the lives of hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest, least powerful people...
Special Issue of Seedlings Focuses on Agrofuels
“We are trying to get cars to eat bread and people to eat oil” Source: El Roto, El País, Madrid, 2007 No to the agrofuels craze! GRAIN has just published a special issue of Seedling which focuses on biofuels, or as we like to call them, agrofuels...
Another Heritage of Colonialism
From State of the World Population 2007, published this week by the United Nations Population Fund Sea Level Rise: Not If but When, and How Much? One of the alarming prospects of climate change is its impact on sea level rise and its potential...
Biofuel Production vs Indigenous Peoples
by Andrew Boswell From Eastern Daily Press (UK), 16 June 2007. There are many unique cultures, thousands of human languages and a myriad of ways that people relate to others and the natural environment. We call the inheritors of these traditions...
European Weather Crisis Matches IPCC Forecasts
Just two months ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report on Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. It included this warning: “In Southern Europe, climate change is projected to worsen...