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...
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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...
John Bellamy Foster: A New War on the Planet?
by John Bellamy Foster This essay was published in the 8 June 2007 issue of the Indypendent and in MRzine. It is posted here with the author’s permission. During the last year the global warming debate has reached a turning point. Due to the media...
Marxism and Climate Change: An Exchange
Paul York, an organizer of Students Against Climate Change at the University of Toronto, recently submitted the following comments on Ian Angus’s article Confronting the Climate Change Crisis. Ian’s response follows Paul’s comments Ian, this...
International Ecosocialist Meeting Planned
Dear friends: An important international meeting of ecosocialists will be held in Paris on Sunday October 7. Our goal is to improve communication and coordination among ecosocialist activists around the world and to work towards formation of an...
Denying Time and Place in the Global Warming Debate
by Derrick O’Keefe By now, a number of respected activists have ably rebutted the spurious and provocative writings of Alexander Cockburn on the topic of human-induced global warming (George Monbiot by questioning his sources, and my Seven Oaks...
UN: Biofuels Push Up Food Bills
From Food Outlook, June 1 2007, published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Based on FAO’s latest analysis, global expenditures on imported foodstuffs look set to surpass US$ 400 billion in 2007, almost 5 percent above the record of the...