The New Dark Age

20 January, 2010 — Climate and Capitalism

* World Leaders Fail the Planet
* The 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Challenge and How to Achieve It
* Haiti and the Politics of Climate Change
* As the World Burns
* The Climate Killers

World Leaders Fail the Planet. Liam Young in Frontline: An Independent Marxist Review from Scotland

While the defeat of global summitry at Copenhagen may have initially appeared negative, for many it has finally have put paid to any illusions that the current system can be reformed. The economic and environmental crisis that capitalism has unleashed on the world has placed the question of change on a revolutionary scale back on the agenda.

The 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Challenge and How to Achieve It. Renfrey Clark in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Nature and civilization will be saved only if masses of the world’s population – the people who have no stake in continued greenhouse pollution – enter the political process directly. The lies of the spinmeisters must be answered forcefully and in detail.

Haiti and the Politics of Climate Change. Op Rana in China Daily

That we are living in a global village is a myth. The global village is a concept used by the rich nations to become richer at the expense of the poor countries. What a global village we live in that does not even have a core of relief doctors, workers and equipment to help victims of natural disasters?

As the World Burns. Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone

Our failure to confront global warming is more than simply political incompetence. Over the past year, the corporations and special interests most responsible for climate change waged an all-out war to prevent Congress from cracking down on carbon pollution in time for Copenhagen.

The Climate Killers. Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone

Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming