“If the environment is polluted and the economy is sick, the virus that causes both will be found in the system of production. And that is where their cure can be found as well.”
Do carbon offsets reduce emissions?
Some sincere environmentalists believe that markets in carbon offsets will slow climate change. In fact, as Chris Lang of REDD-Monitor explains, carbon offsets are at best a zero sum game.
'The greatest environmentalist of the 20th century'
Articles and quotes honoring and remembering Barry Commoner, 1917-2012
A 1970 call for mass action against polluters
From the archives: "We must build a movement which can combat pollution not only on the street and in the factories, but in solidarity with every other struggle against the ruling class."
Barry Commoner: 'Pollution begins in the boardroom, not the bedroom'
When most writers were blaming individual behaviour or overpopulation for pollution, this pioneering radical environmentalist exposed the role of capitalism and profit.
Agnotology
Counting the lies told by lying liars at News Corp.
Climate change vs food security: a bleak future for the poor
For developing countries, a future of more frequent and intense extreme weather, reducing food availability and raising prices, means a downward spiral of worsening food insecurity and deepening poverty.
Carbon trade markets collapsing
Carbon trading was supposed to save the climate, but it's all hot air
The Great White North isn't green
Canada and climate change by the numbers
A nuanced analysis of China's environmental crises
Judith Shapiro has laid out well the enormous environmental challenges facing the people of China If there is to be a sustainable future, they will have to be at the forefront of fighting for it.
Counterfire review of Too Many People?
Too Many People? rebuts claims that population is the source of environmental crisis. Since capitalism is the problem, the fight for a sustainable society must be at the centre of the struggle against austerity
Pipelines: More lies told by lying liars
You can't believe anything Enbridge says
Behind Bolivia’s nationalization of Canadian mine
Morales' action is a victory for local social movements fighting corporate violence. and a step towards ending 500 years of foreign powers stripping the country of its natural resources.
Call for papers on capitalism and ecological crisis
The Review of Radical Political Economics is going to publish a special issue on “Political Economy of Sustainable Development.”
Why are climate negotiations locked in stalemate?
Pablo Solon and Walden Bello: The biggest polluters don't want a climate agreement. Their public disagreements mask a common desire to continue destructive policies at home and around the world.
Brazilian rural workers mobilize: Unity for land, territory, and dignity!
"We will continue mobilized in unity and struggle and, in combat against our common enemy, we will build a country and a society that is just, compassionate, and sustainable."
Pipeline job promises: lies told by lying liars
How can you tell when tars sands pipeline promoters are lying?
Ecosocialist elected International Coordinator of UK Green Party
Congratulations to Derek Wall
More food with less pollution?
Yes it's possible ... if we do agriculture right
Arctic melting: Is global warming going into overdrive?
Arctic sea ice and Greenland's glaciers are melting far faster than predicted, posing a near-term danger of sea level rises and massive release of methane.