Climate Change
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How Three Green Parties Went Wrong By Jim Jepps
The Charter of the Global Greens sees Green Party politics as something far wider than simply caring about the environment. The six core strands are ‘Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Participatory Democracy, Nonviolence, Sustainability, Respect for Diversity’ which looks to four movements; ‘the peace movement, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the labour movement.’ Continue reading
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BOLIVIA: Do Indigenous Concepts Help or Hinder in Fighting the World’s Climate Crisis?
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth[1], held in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April, has fueled a growing debate in Latin America over the validity and usefulness of traditional Indigenous value systems and forms of organization in resolving the pressing social problems of the region, not least the challenges posed… Continue reading
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Trucking Toward Climate Change By Dahr Jamail
The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the “tar sands,” located north of Edmonton, releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as… Continue reading
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Report-back from Cochabamba: World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
7 May, 2010 — LeftStreamed http://blip.tv/play/AYHdwkYC View part 1 on Blip.tv website Part 1: with delegates to the Cochabamba climate conference: performance by Red Slam collective Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (transcript) Ben Powless, Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, member of the Indigenous Environmental Network http://blip.tv/play/AYHd5wwC View part 2 on Blip.tv… Continue reading
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Earth still needs a chance By Erik Wallenberg
Earth Day came at the end of the 1960s radicalization, but its origins date back to the late 1950s and early ’60s. In the shadow of this latest ecological disaster, it’s worth considering what gave rise to the coordinated collective action of Earth Day. We’ve come a long way since 1970, and yet in some… Continue reading
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Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost to Ecosocialism By Roger Rashi
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Roger Rashi, "Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost for Ecosocialism"
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Cochabamba: Climate Justice Has a New Program and New Hope for Victory By Ian Angus
Following the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully to impose a toothless backroom deal, Bolivian President Evo Morales invited “the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders, … scientists, academics, lawyers and governments,” to attend a conference “to define strategies for action and mobilization to defend… Continue reading
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Bolivia’s resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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Bolivia's resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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"World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: Live from Cochabamba"
20 April, 2010 — MRZine/Monthly Review For more information, visit cmpcc.org http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.936530 Continue reading
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Eduardo Galeano, "Message to the Mother Earth Summit: The Rights of Human Beings and the Rights of Nature Are Two Names of the Same Dignity"
From the times of the European Renaissance, nature has been turned into a commodity or an obstacle to human progress. And, to this day, this divorce between us and her has persisted, so much so that there still are people of good will who are moved by poor nature, so abused, so wounded, but are… Continue reading
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Treasury face judicial review over RBS emissions By Julian Oram
Here’s a puzzler: what is the UK’s biggest contributor to climate change? Did you answer coal? Good guess, but no. Transport? It’s a biggy for sure, but not the largest. Farming? A distant fourth. Continue reading
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Upcoming climate change summit could be decisive By Teo Ballve
An upcoming grassroots summit on climate change in Bolivia could mark a pivotal event in the fight against global warming. In response, Bolivia is hosting the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth from April 19-22 in the city of Cochabamba. Around 15,000 people from across the globe are expected… Continue reading
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The Bank Loan That Could Break South Africa's Back By Patrick Bond
Notwithstanding South Africa’s existing $75 billion foreign debt, last Thursday the World Bank added a $3.75bn loan to Eskom for the primary purpose of building the world’s fourth-largest coal-fired power plant, at Medupi, which will spew 25 million tons of the climate pollutant carbon dioxide each year. Continue reading
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Video: Bolivia’s Ambassador on the People’s Climate Summit
Bolivian Ambassador to the U.N., Pablo Solon, invites individuals, governments and NGOs to Cochabamba, April 20 to 22, 2010, for the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Continue reading
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Why Bolivia Called the World Peoples’ Climate Summit
Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN, at a press conference during UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn on 10 April condemned continued attempts by some developed countries to impose a deeply flawed Copenhagen Accord as the basis for future negotiations Continue reading
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The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. Continue reading
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'Solar Radiation Management' or Manhattan Project 2.0? By Jutta Schmitt
Solar Radiation Management by ‘injection of sulfate or other materials into the stratosphere’ as proposed by the working agenda of the past Asilomar Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies and as seen, photographed, filmed, documented, studied and analyzed during years by ordinary citizens, environmental activists, air traffic controllers, radar technicians, alternative journalists, meteorologists, chemists and physicians,… Continue reading
