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Global Warming and Agriculture: The Poor Will Be Worst Hit

A new study finds that global warming will reduce agricultural production world wide – and that the losses will be worst and happen soonest in the countries that can least afford them. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook...

Climate Change Refugees

By Terry J. Allen Posted September 5, 2007, on In These Times It has already started. The first ripples from rising seas are inundating low-lying areas, threatening coasts and islands. Climate refugees around the world are fleeing regions beset by...

Are Dangerous Warming Levels Inevitable?

Scientists no longer debate whether global warming is happening. The big scientific questions now are how bad it will be, and what can be done. LONDON, September 11 (Reuters) — The world will probably exceed a global warming limit which the European...

The APEC Declaration on Climate Change

This brilliant example of weasel wording reaches its zenith with the promise to “work towards achieving an APEC-wide regional aspirational goal of a reduction in energy intensity.”I considered writing a satirical commentary on this – but...

Caution: Hypocrites At Work

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...

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...