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...
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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...
Climate Change CO2lonialism
By Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young From Mute magazine – Culture and politics after the net According to Tony Blair, the climate change debate is ‘finally over.’ Who can dismiss the economic arguments of the Stern Report on Climate Change? Only a...
The Truth About Kyoto: Huge Profits, Little Carbon Saved
by Nick Davies additional research by Natasha Gilbert From The Guardian, Saturday June 2, 2007 In autumn 2005, three journalists working for the environmental group the Centre for Science and Environment decided to investigate some of the Indian...
More on Ottawa's Fraudulent Global Warming Plan
by Ian Angus The Pembina Institute’s Analysis of the Government of Canada’s April 2007 Greenhouse Gas Policy Announcement, written by Dr. Matthew Bramley, mostly uses diplomatic language, but it doesn’t shrink from calling Environment Minster...
Pamphlet: Fidel Castro on Global Warming, Biofuels and World Hunger
This Spring, Fidel Castro has written a remarkable series of articles on global warming and biofuels and their effects on third world countries. Socialist Voice has collected them in a PDF pamphlet, with an Introduction by James Haywood. Readers are...
NASA: Earth's Climate Is Approaching Dangerous Point
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies May 27, 2007 NEW YORK — NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth’s climate close to critical tipping points, with...
Australian Socialists Demand Radical GHG Limits
Alliance adopts radical greenhouse gas emissions reduction target May 26, 2007: The Socialist Alliance has adopted radical greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets—95% of stationary power emissions and 60% of overall emissions compared to 1990...
Paraguayan Campesinos Protest Biofuel Production Urgent Call for Solidarity and Support
A Paraguayan campesino organization that opposes Agro-fuel monoculture is in a state of alert and requires international solidarity. A camp of landless youths from Pariri is being threatened with eviction, and there is an attempt to frame and...
Paraguayan Activists Demand an End to Agro-Fuel Monoculture
Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps Asunción, Paraguay, 24 April 2007 – Paraguay has set a short term goal of exporting agro-fuels. The plan is to export at least 50 million dollars worth of...