Shell versus human rights in the Niger Delta

Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed groups who destroyed Nigerian towns, according to a new report Related posts… (auto-generated) Ecocide in the Niger Delta Shell finances violent human rights abusers in...

Obama's inaction threatens climate disaster

By its disinclination to interfere in the workings of America’s neoliberal capitalist economy, Washington is guiding the world toward irreversible climate change Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate...

Too Many People? A book review from New Zealand

“An ever-necessary reminder that the world’s poor are the first victims of ecological disaster, not the cause.” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land The return of the population...

Indigenous movements and the fight against climate change

No one feels the urgency of climate change more than Indigenous Peoples, who live in the most diverse and fragile ecosystems remaining in the world. They have become increasingly vocal and visible inside and outside the official climate negotiations...

Green lifestyle choices won’t solve the climate problem

“Contrary to the famous Dick Cheney quote, energy efficiency is not a matter of personal virtue. The answer to collective political failure is political action.” Related posts… (auto-generated) Thinking about nuclear: Hard choices that...

Naomi Klein: Saving the climate requires profound social change

Right-wing climate change deniers aren’t wrong about everything. For example, when they warn that making the emissions cuts scientists say are needed will require radical and economic change … Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new...

2010 greenhouse gases higher than IPCC's worst case

 “A horrible legacy for our children and grandchildren” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World The liberal attack on Naomi Klein...

Interview: Patrick Bond on the Durban Conference of Polluters

Kyoto will likely pass away in 2012, except for the emissions trading schemes which capitalists can use for profit. What we do outside the Durban conference will be very important Related posts… (auto-generated) ‘Rain Bomb’ kills over 300 in South...

Lifestyles of the rich and hypocritical

Prince Charles thinks people should consume less. Other people, that is … Related posts… (auto-generated) The world is rich. The rich are the problem. On the origins of green liberalism Part One – Population Where? Canada's Role at...

Tar sands industry admits impact of pipeline protests

The dedicated organizing of countless activists, including those arrested in Washington and Ottawa, is being felt by governments and industry. We can stop the pipeline! Related posts… (auto-generated) EnergyEast tar sands pipeline faces growing...

The U.S. auto industry's Big Lie

There has never been anything resembling serious public debate of basic U.S. transportation policy Related posts… (auto-generated) Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transit Stop Signs: Cars and capitalism on the road to economic, social and...

After Occupy Wall Street, isn’t it time for Occupy Earth?

by Chip Ward TomDispatch, October 27, 2011 What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planet’s life-support systems — its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere — goes hand in hand with the...

CBC radio gives a platform to populationism

Quirks and Quarks lets overpopulation ideology masquerade as science Related posts… (auto-generated) 14 Billion Years of Revolutionary Change Did McGill University whitewash asbestos? Populationism: A Weapon of Political Conservatives Brazil's...

John Bellamy Foster: Capitalism and environmental catastrophe

We need an ecological and social revolution. You may say that this is impossible, but the World Occupy Movement would have been declared impossible only a month ago. Related posts… (auto-generated) John Bellamy Foster on the ‘Green New...

St. Louis Greens: We march with and are part of Occupy!

A Green economy would create things that we need and things that endure. It would not build things that designed to kill other people in order to steal their oil Related posts… (auto-generated) Occupy climate change! Occupy the Durban climate summit...

David Harvey on the Occupy Wall Street movement

The movement triggered by Occupy Wall Street is crucial to our collective future. It shows us that the collective power of bodies in public space is still the most effective instrument of opposition when all other means of access are blocked...

Population, consumer sovereignty, and the importance of class

The debate following our article in Grist reveals that many greens have a blindspot about class. Blaming the world’s problems on too many people makes little sense when one-half of one percent of the world’s population owns nearly 40% of...

The war against climate science unravels

Last week’s release of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study delivered a decisive blow to the edifice of climate skepticism, but don’t expect the deniers to give up… Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC...

What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1%?

Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% Related posts… (auto-generated) What the...

Video: Simon Butler on the Occupy Movement and Climate Change

 What is potential of the Occupy Movement? How should it connect to the fight against environmental destruction and climate change? Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm:...