C&C promises to deliver the alchemists’ dream of saving the environment without disturbing capitalism too much. Not only do the rich get to stay rich, but world poverty is eliminated into the bargain. by Roy Wilkes From Socialist...
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Fidel Castro on Biofuel and World Hunger
by Fidel Castro May 28 2007 More than three million people in the world condemned to premature death from hunger and thirst. That is not an exaggerated figure, but rather a cautious one. I have meditated a lot on that in the wake of President Bush’s...
How High Will the Waters Rise? Part One
by Ian Angus Canada’s National Post was positively gleeful. The New York Times (which the Post normally views as a hotbed of liberalism) criticized Al Gore (not only a liberal but a global warming fanatic) for fudging his numbers: [T]he New York...
Ecology and Climate Change: Neo-Liberal Strategies and Socialist Responses
by Andy Kilmister from Socialist Outlook, Spring 2007 Introduction Anybody politically active in the area of ecological struggles, particularly climate change, will have noticed a striking paradox. [1] On the one hand we have exceptionally radical...
Biofuels: A Lethal Solution
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Canadians 4 Global Warming
I don’t usually post videos here, but this is delightful — and right on the mark. Just 2 minutes and 48 seconds — Enjoy! Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...
Full Tanks at the Cost of Empty Stomachs: The Expansion of the Sugarcane Industry in Latin America
Statement prepared by Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) SAO PAULO, FEBRUARY 28, 2007: We, representatives of organizations and social movements of Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic, gathered at a...
Exploding the “Emissions Intensity” Hoax
By Ian Angus As I’ve written previously, the Climate Change Denial Industry is still active despite the IPCC Report — but it’s also true that it has become unfashionable as an explicit political stance, at least in Canada. After years of inaction...
Canadian Dimension: A 12 Step Program to Combat Climate Change
Continuing our series of articles and statements reflecting a variety of “Left Views on Climate Change.” Canadian Dimension, founded in 1963, describes itself as “a magazine which shows there is an alternative to the corporate agenda and the...
'Acts of God' or Products of the System?
by Zoe Kenny In early February, rains that flooded up to 70% of Jakarta and displaced some 450,000 people began. Across Indonesia, 85 people died, according to a March 12 Agence France-Presse report. Bloomberg’s wire service reported on March 6...