Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HARVEY Fiona
If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ’lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change.
The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become (…)
, by SAVOIE Kathryn
THE KEYSTONE XL is a proposed 1700-mile pipeline that would transport tar sands oil (also called oil sands) from Alberta, Canada into the United States, crossing six states from Montana to Texas and Louisiana. The proposed pipeline, which has a price tag of $7 billion, would add to the extensive (…)
, by MATSUO Ichiro
In southern Belarus along the border with the Ukraine stretches the Polessie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve, a foreboding name sure to keep the poachers and public out.
Because it was contaminated by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, the area is off-limits to (…)
, by FUJINO Akira
Thousands of albatross may have died in tsunami
Tens of thousands of Laysan and black-footed albatross chicks on Midway Atoll may have perished in the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake, according to a Japanese oceanic photographer who recently visited the atoll.
Midway Atoll (…)
, by SIEGLE Lucy
With high-street chains churning out fresh designs every few weeks, we now buy more cheap clothes than ever before. But as Lucy Siegle reveals in her hard-hitting new book To Die For, it’s a trend that will cost us far more than we imagine.
Every morning when I wake up I am confronted by my (…)
, by GILBERTSON Tamra
Supporters continue to push ahead with plans for expansion, even though the EU ETS has unequivocally failed to reduce emissions.
As new cap and trade markets emerge on the global horizon, the world looks to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for insight and lessons learned. This form of (…)
, by SMITH Richard
Maximizing profit and saving the planet are inherently in conflict. No amount of tinkering with the market can brake the drive to global ecological collapse.
Summary
In rejecting the antigrowth approach of the first wave of environmentalists in the 1970s, pro-growth “green capitalism” (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the economic model that has led us into it.
The starting point for today’s debate is to note that humanity is in a global ecological crisis that is an intrinsic part of the (…)
, by AFP
TOKYO - A survivor of the Chernobyl disaster says people exposed to radiation from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant will spend the rest of their lives fearing the “bombshell” of cancer and other dire illnesses.
Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear calamity and (…)
, by MANZUROVA Natalia
Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. (…)
, par TANURO Daniel
Introduction
The following article by a leading European ecosocialist, Daniel Tanuro, was written especially for the latest issue of the Montréal-based journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme (NCS) , which features a number of articles on what is commonly referred to as the ecological crisis (…)
, by SHERMAN Janette
I. How many people died and how many more are likely to die in the future?
The total number of deaths already attributable to Chernobyl or expected in the future over the lifetime of emergency workers and local residents in the most contaminated areas is estimated to be about 4000. This (…)
, by SAUNDERS Doug
Twenty-five years ago next month, tens of thousands of people in the northwestern corner of the Soviet Union fled after watching plumes of radioactive smoke rise from the explosion of the huge Chernobyl nuclear plant.
A quarter century later, they still have not returned. The “exclusion (…)
, by SAHI Aoun
Enchanted by the muse of war and belligerence, jingoists install a legendary image of a ‘warrior Muslim’ and ‘Muslim soldier’ who carries mythical qualities by the very property of being a Muslim. To them Pakistan is an empire of Islam, and each Muslim is a superhuman or better say a (…)
, by LOHAN Tara
The massive death toll of dead birds and sea life should draw attention to the countless other species on the brink of extinction.
By now, we’ve all seen the news reports of the “Aflockalypse.” The New Year came in with a bang in Beebe, Arkansas when thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky. (…)
, by ROSENBERG Martha
Do wildlife officials feel just a little hypocritical answering media questions about the New Year’s Eve blackbird “rain” when they know they kill 200 times that amount a year as “pests”?
In 2009 the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), part of (…)
, by MAGDOFF Fred
There are numerous ways to approach and think about the enormous harm that has been done to the environment. I will discuss the following: (1) the critical characteristics that underlie strong ecosystems; (2) why societies are not adequately implementing ecological approaches; and (3) how we (…)
, by REIFER Tom
President Obama’s decision comes despite the fact that US government and independent models predict an 80% chance Polar Bears will become mostly extinct by 2050, with total extinction this century without cuts in emissions.
The Obama Presidency hit a new low in the run-up to Christmas and New (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Daniel Tanuro’s new book, L’impossible capitalisme vert, or “The Futility of Green Capitalism”, is a major contribution to our analytical understanding of ecosocialism.
Introduction
Tanuro, a Belgian Marxist and certified agriculturist, is a prolific author on environmental history and (…)
, by ANGUS Ian
Liberal journalists, pale greens and others are trivializing the BP/Deepwater oil spill and distracting attention from the social roots of environmental destruction. It’s time to dump the myth of ‘consumer sovereignty’
Following the BP/Deepwater oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, many (…)
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