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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...

The IPCC's 'Good News' About Global Warming

The Time Has Come And now for the good news about global warming . . . Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a...

A new motto for Capitalism Nature Socialism

Joel Kovel writes in the June issue of the quarterly journal Capitalism Nature Socialism: With this issue Capitalism Nature Socialism no longer calls itself an “international red-green journal of theory and politics,” but a “journal of ecosocialism...

The Sad Case of Alexander Cockburn

He’s one of the most respected journalists of the left – but he is also a science-denying crank who insists that global warming is a hoax. Transcript of a Radio Ecoshock broadcast, June 18, 2007. Published by permission of the author...

Scientists: Civilization Threatened by Global Warming

by Steve Connor Independent, June 19, 2007 Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming...

Vivoleum! 'Oilmen' Propose Burning People for Fuel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXXON PROPOSES BURNING HUMANITY FOR FUEL IF CLIMATE CALAMITY HITS Conference organizer fails to have Yes Men arrested Text of speech, photos, video: GO-EXPO statement: Press conference before this event, Friday, Calgary:...

Why “ecosocialism”? Some Comments on a Word

Is “ecosocialism” an unnecessary addition to left vocabulary? by Ian Angus I remember my shock when I heard that the respected Australian socialist newspaper Direct Action was being replaced by something called Green Left Weekly.“Green...

Maize of Deception

How Corn-Based Ethanol Can Lead to Starvation and Environmental Disaster From the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, June 12, 2007 Ethanol Fuels Are Not Necessarily the Universal Cure As the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels...

Ecosocialism or Collapse

The following is excerpted from “The Eco-Suicidal Economics of Adam Smith,” and published here by kind permission of the author, Richard A. Smith. The full article appears in the June 2007 issue of the journal Capital Nature Socialism...