FPIF Issues: Environment

The Next Marx

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:28:18 -0500

The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.

Steer clear of this climate 'Ponzi scheme'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:17:59 -0500

Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme -- the "privatisation of the air."

Review: The Unconquered

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:49:00 -0500

A new book describes an attempt to map uncontacted tribes in the Amazon without contacting them.

Durban's Climate Debacle

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:43:22 -0500

What we got from Durban was largely a set of promises to do something...some other time.

Challenging Climate Apartheid

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:55:09 -0500

The climate conference in Durban has led some observers to conclude that developed countries are engaged in a form of apartheid against the rest of the world. But Nnimmo Bassey hopes negotiators will heed the voices of the people.

Fiddling on Climate

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:49:58 -0500

At Durban, international negotiators are fiddling while the world burns.

America Is Not Broke

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.

Occupy and the Climate Negotiations

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:11 -0500

The problem here is "governance failure." Or maybe we should just call it "decadence." The United States may at this point be so weakened by rot and ideology that it is unable even to act in its own interests, let alone the interests of its people, let alone the interests of humanity as a whole.

Fukushima Women against Nuclear Power

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:41:22 -0500

The nuclear threat, organizers say, extends beyond Tohoku, even beyond Japan. And indeed, this is the message that has been heard around the world, as the anti-nuke protest and politics were staged with specific reference to Fukushima (sadly, rarely with respect to the wider Tohoku region).

Seven Billion ... And Rising

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:06:29 -0400

For humanity to survive and prosper, capitalists must confront the limits of growth-led models, and progressives must confront the problem of population.