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Bolivia: A balance sheet for 2012, challenges for 2013
Despite attacks from within and abroad, Bolivia's 'process of change' made important gains in 2012, and is building on its strengths to advance into a post-capitalist economic revolution.
Why Shell can't be trusted in the Arctic
Greenpeace explains why the petro-giant's Arctic adventure is an environmental disaster waiting to happen.
Canadian Youth Climate Coalition takes the gloves off
Student activists give up tax-free status to fight fossil fuel giants
Connect the dots for a New's Year's revolution!
We need a 21st Century Green Manifesto to overthrow the Corporatocracy and dismantle the suicide economy, before it’s too late.
On optimism and pessimism
Leon Trotsky: Thoughts on a new year
Antarctic: The big melt accelerates
West Antarctica is one of the fastest warming regions on Earth
Canada: Idle No More movement demands indigenous rights, environmental justice
Video: Democracy Now interviews Dr. Pamela Palmater, spokeswoman for the Idle No More movement.
C&C's 2012 Top 20
In 2012 the most popular Climate & Capitalism articles were ...
Believing otherwise: Individual action and social change
Individual actions won’t change the world — but that doesn’t mean every advocate of personal change is headed in the wrong direction.
Dialectics in Science: An interview with Helena Sheehan
The tendency of some on the left to counterpose a humanistic Marx to a positivist Engels weakens Marxism, and is not supported by historical evidence.
Vertical farming: Another 'solution' that won't work
Building factory farms in urban skyscrapers is promoted as a way to fix our broken food system. Despite the good intentions of its advocates, it's a fantasy, an unrealistic techno-fix that can only divert attention from the need for real change.
Chasing Ice: A must-see film
Incredible photography, undeniable evidence of climate change
How First Nations organized against tar sands pipelines
Coastal First Nations leader explains how they won the support of 80% of British Columbians for the indigenous peoples' campaign against Enbrodge's pipeline plans
Population, consumption, and rectangles
Can elementary geometry explain environmental problems? Actually, no.
Climate disaster CAN be prevented
Practical, affordable solutions exist, but the necessary resources won't be mobilized so long as corporations, media barons and generals make all the big decisions.
Postmodern meets the class struggle, illustrated
Stop complaining, everything is relative ...
The new fight over who owns the earth
Book review: 'Landgrabbers' offers a bleak picture of land grabs by corporations for agriculture or resource exploitation and equally appalling 'green grabs' by conservationists
Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!
"We did not come here to turn the climate into a business, or to protect businesses of them who want to continue aggravating the climate crisis, destroying Mother Earth. We came here to protect the future of humanity."
Pipeline politics: Can popular protest stop the tar sands leviathan?
Supported by the government and the opposition parties, Enbridge is pushing ahead with plans to pipe toxic bitumen through Ontario. First Nations and environmentalists are trying to mobilize public opposition.