Climate Change
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: GATES OF DELUSION Media Distortions And +Real+ Climate Scandals
Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed “scandal” of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named “climategate”. Further media frenzy erupted over an erroneous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change statement that 80 per cent… Continue reading
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Haiti and the politics of climate change By Op Rana
Haiti is not a bank. It cannot expect to get what it has been promised. So what if it did not bring the disaster upon itself. Haiti is arguably the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere today. But till well into the 19th century it was one of the richest in the Caribbean (the richest… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Round-Up, 5
The 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Challenge and How to Achieve It – Haiti and the Politics of Climate Change – The Climate Killers Continue reading
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The Birth of a New Global Movement By Jonathan Neale
Some people will be hopeless after Copenhagen. Some NGO leaders will be whipped into line. But many will be enraged, and moved to action. Continue reading
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Women’s Rights, Population and Climate Change: A Debate
Should supporters of women’s rights campaign for population reduction? Two very different feminists perspectives … Continue reading
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Letter From Climate Prisoners In Denmark By Climate Prisoners
Copenhagen, January 1st 2010: Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark. As a matter of fact, thousands of people have been considered, without any evidence, a threat to the society. Hundreds have been arrested and some are still under detention, waiting for judgement or under investigation. Among them, us, the undersigned. Continue reading
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Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights
Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today Continue reading
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Big Green NGOs: Sleeping With the Enemy
The largest climate change campaign in the world is in bed with the world’s most powerful corporations. … The mainstream environmental movement no longer inspires nor leads society to an enlightened existence – it simply bows down to the status quo. Continue reading
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Bolivia: We Must Support a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth By Pablo Solón and Comrac Cullinan
For Bolivia, December marked an important and historic step forward in climate change politics. We are of course not referring to Brokenhagen, where we saw the worst of intransigent, undemocratic and cynical tactics from the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide. The interesting action happened in a completely unreported event in New York when on… Continue reading
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Curing Post-Copenhagen Hangover By Patrick Bond
Instead of halting the hedonism, Barack Obama and the Euro elites cracked open the mansion door to add a few nouveau riche guests: South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, China’s Jiabao Wen (reportedly the most obnoxious of the lot), Brazil’s Lula Inacio da Silva and India’s Manmohan Singh. By Saturday morning, still punch-drunk with power over the… Continue reading
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Excellent News from Copenhagen By Daniel Tanuro
More and more people understand that climate degradation is not the outcome of ‘human activity’ in general but of a mode of an unsustainable mode of production and consumption Continue reading
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Shambles in Copenhagen By Greg Albo
The turn to market environmentalism of so much of the environmental movement in North America has been in equal parts political and ecological disasters. This effort to form alliances with the capitalist classes and the state within the confines of neoliberalism has done nothing to advance solutions to the most crucial ecological issue of the… Continue reading
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Pentagon's Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes By Sara Flounders
By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements. The Pentagon wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; its secret operations in Pakistan; its equipment on more than 1,000 U.S. bases around the world; its 6,000 facilities… Continue reading
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The Truth About Copenhagen By Fidel Castro Ruz
If anything significant was achieved in the Danish capital, it was that the media coverage allowed the world public to watch the political chaos created there and the humiliating treatment accorded to Heads of States or Governments, ministers and thousands of representatives of social movements and institutions that in hope and expectation traveled to the… Continue reading
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Copenhagen: A Turning Point for the Climate Movement By Terry Conway and Thomas Eisler
On Saturday Dec 12, 100,000 demonstrated in the streets of Copenhagen outside the COP 15 summit demanding urgent action against global warming – more than double the numbers that organisers had predicted – or even dared expect. While of course a high percentage of demonstrators came from Denmark itself and from neighbouring countries Sweden and… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez: A Battle for the Planet Has Begun
I must say: in Copenhagen the Obama illusion was definitively destroyed. He was confirmed in his position as head of the empire and winner of the Nobel War Prize. The enigma of the two Obamas has been resolved. Continue reading
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Full Text: Chavez Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen
I had hardly arrived and we were just sitting down when we heard the president of the previous session, the minister, saying that a document came about, but nobody knows, I’ve asked for the document, but we still don’t have it, I think nobody knows of that top secret document. Now certainly, as the Bolivian… Continue reading
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Hugo Chávez Parts 1, 2 and 3: The voice of the people in Copenhagen 2009 COP15 speech
Three-part video of Hugo Chávez’s speech at COP15 Continue reading
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Hugo Chávez Parts 1, 2 and 3: The voice of the people in Copenhagen 2009 COP15 speech
Three-part video of Hugo Chávez’s speech at COP15 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 