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, by TERBORGH John
Review of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution by Caroline Fraser, Metropolitan, 400 pp., $28.50.
Caroline Fraser’s book Rewilding the World is a call to retrofit more than a century of nature conservation in the United States and around the world. Why, at this (…)
, by NGWANE Trevor
There is an ecological crisis in the world and this crisis can be traced to capitalism. There is deforestation due to the trade in timber. There is climate change due to unsafe production methods.
The working class is the class that suffers the most from the ecological crisis. Working class (…)
, by MÜLLER Tadzio, WOLF Frieder Otto
A Green New Deal is on everybody’s lips at the moment. Barack Obama has endorsed a very general version of it, the United Nations are keen, as are numerous Green parties around the world. In the words of the ‘Green New Deal Group’, an influential grouping of heterodox economists, Greens and (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Daniel Tanuro’s report on climate change [Voir Daniel Tanuro, Report on climate change at the IC of the Fourth International ] is one of the most important documents produced by our movement in recent years. It is an invaluable contribution to the political arming of revolutionary Marxists and (…)
, by Les Estivales de la question animale
The 2009 edition of the Estivales de la question animale has just come to its end, confirming the success of these annual encounters: 67 people, most of them but not all animal activists or sympathisers, participated in the programmed events and debates and in the shared moments of conviviality (…)
, by PATO Thadeus
Time is money - this proverb is as common as absurd. Absurd, because there is no reliable definition of the term “time” other than the physical one. Therefore it is not at all clear what “money” actually expresses here. The preoccupation with the idea of “time”, which many philosophers and (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
THE WORLD’S WORKING PEOPLE FACE the greatest challenge in three generations. The economic crisis that began in the banking institutions of the United States last year has rapidly spread around the globe, creating a financial and industrial disaster. In one country after another banks have (…)
, by ANGUS Ian
Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009.
The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and (…)
, by SEN Sukla
Paper presentedat at the multidisciplinary national symposium on “Planet Earth: Peoples, Society And Science” (January 23 and 25, 2009) organised by the Indian Academy of Social Sciences, in association with Peoples Council of Education at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
“The world is suffering from a fever due to climate change, and the disease is the capitalist development model.” — Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, September 2007
Humanity’s Choice
Humanity today faces a stark choice: ecosocialism or barbarism.
We need no more proof of the barbarity (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
ABSTRACT
Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global sustainability in which we define planetary boundaries within which we expect that humanity can operate safely. (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Dear friends and comrades,
The “Belem Declaration” is an important document issued at a very important moment.
As an ecosocialist focused on climate change, I totally agree with the general orientation of this document: denunciation of capitalist growth, productivism, and capitalist (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Climate change is much more than one ecological problem among others: it is the chemically pure expression of the fact that the irrepressible capitalist logic of accumulation is leading humanity to destroy the environment in which civilizations have developed for six thousand years.
The only (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Ecosocialism is much more than a new label, or a revamping of an old perspective: it is a new project for the emancipation of humanity.
Humanity produces its own life, through labour as a conscious social activity. This basic characteristic of our species has two important consequences for a (…)
, by ANGUS Ian
Hervé Kempf. HOW THE RICH ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH. Translated by Leslie Thatcher. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vermont, 2008. ISBN 978-1-60358-035-9. Reviewed by Ian Angus editor, Climate and Capitalism
From the beginning, Climate and Capitalism has been devoted to “making (…)
, by LOHMANN Larry
In Canada, all five mainstream political parties are promoting some form of “cap and trade” system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their plans differ in timing and scope — but the real problem is that carbon trading won’t do the job, and makes it harder to develop and implement real (…)
, by ANGUS Ian
Will shared resources always be misused and overused? Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road to ecological disaster? Is privatization the only way to protect the environment and end Third World poverty? Most economists and development planners will answer “yes” — (…)
, by LOHMANN Larry
This is a chapter of a book to be soon published by the author on the impact of climate change on India. Pictures are missing and will be added asap.
Introduction
The headlines tell the story. “European Union’s efforts to tackle climate change a failure.” [1] “UN effort to curtail emissions (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Despite its popularity among advocates of market solutions to global warming, carbon trading cannot produce the quantitative and qualitative changes that the world needs.
Daniel Tanuro is the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party. This is the (…)
, by RICE John
In October 2007, with the federal election looming, and global warming generating a lot of tepid air in parliaments around the country, a diverse group of people in Adelaide established the Eco-socialist Network to attempt to generate more serious discussion of environmental issues. Green Left (…)
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