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, by MALEWSKI Jan
With a turn-out of 48.9 per cent, the Icelandic electorate approved on October 20, 2012, by 66.3 per cent of the votes cast, the outline of the new draft constitution. This is an indication that the Icelandic Parliament, which must adopt the constitution, will have to take into account. In (…)
, by DAVENPORT Nicholas
The following article is adapted from a presentation at the Solidarity summer school in August 2012. Nicholas Davenport is a member of the newly formed Ecosocialism Working Group of Solidarity. The editors of Against the Current view this contribution as part of an urgently needed discussion. (…)
, by ANGUS Ian
An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause.
To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture. (…)
, by HANCE Jeremy, PERFECTO Ivette
Most people who are trying to change the world stick to one area, for example they might either work to preserve biodiversity in rainforests or do social justice with poor farmers. But Dr. Ivette Perfecto was never satisfied with having to choose between helping people or preserving nature. (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Barry Commoner, the great environmentalist, has died at the age of 95. I first learned about Commoner when in 1980 the socialist group of which I was a member, the International Socialists, decided to support his campaign for the presidency that year on the ticket of the Citizens’ Party. Our (…)
, by HARVEY Fiona
Biggest increase in coal usage for 50 years could throw the UK’s green ambitions off course.
Coal is enjoying a renaissance, with the highest consumption of the fuel since the late 1960s. The unexpected development threatens to put climate change targets out of reach – and much of the reason (…)
, by Mc LAREN Arlene
Carism
During the past century in the West, the automobile has dominated all other forms of transportation. Despite the fact that the automobile does not serve all citizens equally, authorities protect the automobility system as a way of life. They support auto-oriented land use and (…)
, by GOLDENBERG Suzanne
Scientists at Nasa admitted they thought satellite readings were a mistake after images showed 97% surface melt over four days.
Greenland ice sheet composite.
The Greenland ice sheet on July 8, left, and four days later on the right. In the image, the areas classified as ’probable melt’ (…)
, by GUTTAL Shalmali
REDD (Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is one of the most deceptive and risky initiatives proposed to mitigate climate change. REDD creates the illusion that by halting forest destruction and degradation, global emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) will be reduced. In actuality, (…)
, by LEACH Melissa
Demonstrating the economic value of nature once seemed at the forefront of progressive thinking, but on the ground it is turning into the latest wave of landgrabbing. What went wrong?
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What is green grabbing?
Melissa Leach – I think Guardian journalist John Vidal (…)
, by MAGDOFF Fred
This article was prepared for presentation to the conference on “Harmony and Ecological Civilization” organized for a group of visiting Chinese academics interested in ecological Marxism by the Institute for Postmodern Development of China (IPDC), Claremont, California, on April 27 and 28, 2012. (…)
, by DACHY Yves
“And they sawed the branches on which they were sitting, all the while shouting their experiences to one another so as to saw more effectively. And they fell into the depths. And those who watched them nodded their heads and continued sawing vigorously.” (Bertolt Brecht, 1954)
The concept of (…)
, by BARSAMIAN David, WILLIAMS Chris
Chris Williams is a longtime environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2010). He is professor of physics and chemistry at Pace University and chair of the science department at Packer Collegiate Institute and is a (…)
, by CASEY Tina
Remember those earthquakes in Ohio issued the strictest set of fracking-related rules in the country, based on a preliminary report linking last December’s seismological events around Youngstown to the injection of fracking wastewater into a fracking brine disposal well.
Strict new rules for (…)
, by CABRA Mar, ROSEMBLUM Mort
Aggressive fishing has decimated jack mackerel stocks in the southern Pacific in the past two decades – from 30 million metric tons to less than 3 million. Jack mackerel, down 90 percent in 20 years in once-rich southern seas, foretells wider global calamity; world’s largest trawlers compete for (…)
, by FISCHETTI Mark
Injecting wastewater deep underground is the prime suspect, potentially widening earthquake worries linked to hydraulic fracturing.
Residents of Youngstown, Ohio, received an extra surprise on Christmas Eve and again on New Year’s Eve—earthquakes, measuring 2.7 and 4.0 on the Richter scale, (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
"A woman, desperate to get the best offers in the Wal-Mart sale, discharged pepper-spray at people in order to drive them away from the items she wanted.” This could be a scene from a Pedro Almodovar film had it not been seen in real life. On the 25/11/2011 such a story appeared in the Los (…)
, by HOEDMAN Olivier
Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.
In less than six months, the UN summit in Rio de Janeiro will take place (20-22 June 2011), twenty years after the historic Earth Summit. That summit despite its (…)
, by LANDER Edgardo
The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP’s report “Towards a Green Economy” is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.
In all its hundreds of pages, the UNEP (…)
, by KLEIN Naomi
He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the (…)
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