Category: Environment
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Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery
The following commentary was written by Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis. He follows the first part of the debate “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and … Keep reading »
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We 8 Billions, Their $215 Trillion
As expropriative, exploitative agriculture, industry, and militarization have reduced science to dependent positivist-mechanism, human biological reproduction has expanded enormously. Narrow growth priorities have left the complex forms of reproduction required … Keep reading »
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Drought, Heatwave and Revolution
Global warming, extreme severity of drought in Europe, heatwaves, snowball effect (or cascading reactions) among all these crisis factors… Risk of sudden changes in ocean circulation with incalculable consequences… This … Keep reading »
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Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change
An interview with Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey. Keep reading »
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COP27: Still Fiddling While the World Burns
COP 27, which will meet from the 6th – 18th November 2022, unfolds against a backdrop of growing climate chaos and ecological degradation. As this latest Conference of the Parties … Keep reading »
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What African Governments Must Fight for at COP27
We the African People: In solidarity, stand as women, men, youth, peasants, social movements, community- based and civil society organisations as a united front against the multi-dimensional crisis that is … Keep reading »
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Eleven Wrong Ideas About Climate: Eleven answers to topics that hinder the fight against climate change
In various speeches on climate and climate change, we find a large number of commonplace ideas, repeated a thousand times in all tones, which constitute wrong ideas, which lead, voluntarily … Keep reading »
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A Socialist Green New Deal
In this document, we trace the development of a Green Socialist New Deal (GSND) from its origins in the ‘New Deal’ of the 1930s, to the more recent Green New … Keep reading »
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Climate Devastation and Fossil Fuel Profits
As Pakistan drowns, as Puerto Rico is cast into darkness, and as Jacksonians remain thirsty, it’s past time for a climate tax on fossil fuel companies. Keep reading »
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Harvest Ontario Walk to Stop HWY 413
What does a group of grandmothers and ‘others,’ a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization, and a community climate group have in common? Turns out, quite a lot. Grand(m)others Act to … Keep reading »
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International Food Crisis and Proposals to Overcome It
Contrary to a notion that spread in 2022, the global food crisis started before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the rise in the cereal prices due to speculation. On … Keep reading »
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$2-Trillion for War Versus $100-Billion to Save the Planet
The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe. Keep reading »