Climate Change Killing 300,000 People a Year

First ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year Related posts… (auto-generated)...

The biggest health threat: climate change

The Executive Summary of  Managing the Health effects of Climate Change, a report conducted jointly by The Lancet and University College London, UK, published May 13: Related posts… (auto-generated) ‘Climate change is the single biggest health...

Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters

Six of the companies involved in the summit have been nominated for Climate Greenwash Awards because of their failure to live up to their PR spin on tackling climate change. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate...

21st Century Warming to Be Twice the Forecasts

MIT study author: “There’s no way the world can or should take these risks” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World Lancet...

The Myth of the Efficient Car

Without divine intervention – which seems to be the basis for most energy reduction schemes – there is simply no way to maintain both the atmosphere and personal transportation. The personal automobile must be abandoned, and quickly. Related posts…...

U.S. Climate Bill: No Emission Reduction Until 2026

The major climate bill now working its way through the US Senate has a fatal flaw: it doesn’t require polluters to stop polluting Related posts… (auto-generated) Carbon offsets don’t work, and that’s not news Countering critics of...

Utah Phillips: Who is responsible?

[Quotes and Insights #7] “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Utah Phillips Please share your favorite (brief) ecosocialist quotation in the Comments section …...

First Nations: Investigate Tar Sands as Cancer Cause

“We want a moratorium for the life and death situation in Fort Chipewyan” Related posts… (auto-generated) James Bay Cree Nation enacts uranium ban Canada: Secret government memo warns tar sands damage may be irreversible Ottawa tar-sands...

Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and Copenhagen

How should anti-capitalists intervene in coming IPCC meetings in Copenhagen? Cynthia Kaufman says she wrote this piece for Climate and Capitalism “to incite some serious conversation among anti-capitalists.” She suspects that C&C...

Indigenous Summit Shows the Way on Climate Change

“Our peoples have been wounded many times over but we have always had our environment and our land. That is no longer so sure. Climate Change needs to be reframed as a human rights issue.” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new...

Indigenous Leaders Confront Barrick Gold

“Indigenous leaders from Papua New Guinea and Chile traveled to Canada this week to attend the April 29 shareholders’ meeting of Barrick Gold. Here, they will confront Barrick about human rights abuses and environmental degradation on their...

Indigenous Conference Sounds Climate Warning

“Most Indigenous Peoples today live oppressed existences as minority groups within states. Climate change for them layers another potentially crushing pressure on top of many others” Related posts… (auto-generated) Scientists issue...

Leon Trotsky and Ecology

A reply to a “green” critique of  the Russian revolutionary leader’s views on progress and nature Related posts… (auto-generated) Saito, Marx and the Anthropocene: A Critique ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’ – A Critique...

Agriculture G8 = more hunger and poverty

Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land From 'common goods' to the 'common good of humanity' Food...

Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World

In Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd...

Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!

Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009. The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by...

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health

After years of denial by the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says:”climate change is an enormous problem” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land...

Review: Climate Wars

Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada. Toronto, 2008. ISBN 9780307355836. 272 pages. C$34.95. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming...