Climate & Capitalism

As emissions soar, only radical action can stop catastrophic heat rise

Ian Angus — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:39:42 +0000

CO2 emissions rose 3.2% in 2011. The failure of climate negotiations in Bonn means global temperatures will rise at least 3.5 degrees Celsius, creating conditions not seen for 30 to 60 million years.

India exports food while millions starve

Ian Angus — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:36:23 +0000

Profits before people ... while 320 million of its people go hungry every night, India has become the world's largest rice exporter, and is considering exporting 'excess' wheat as well.

G8 food alliance won’t help farmers or end hunger

Ian Angus — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:03:18 +0000

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched at the G8 summit, is just cover for more land grabbing by Northern corporations. The business-driven initiative won't tackle hunger or support food producers in Africa.

The Royal Society’s tunnel vision on population and poverty

Ian Angus — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:13:29 +0000

The Royal Society's People and the Planet report is rich in numbers but sadly lacking in social analysis or understanding. It doesn't explain poverty or the environmental crisis ... but it does expose the narrowness of populationist thought.

The petroleum-powered propaganda machine

Ian Angus — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:03:13 +0000

The corporate-funded propaganda campaign designed to hoodwink the public and prevent any concerted public action on climate change has been remarkably successful.

We will not let this pipeline cross our land!

Ian Angus — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:50:01 +0000

Wet'suwet'en people in British Columbia condemn the proposed Pacific Trail natural gas pipeline. "We will stop them at our traditional boundary lines and prevent them from proceeding with plans on our territories."

Get the Shell out! Indigenous activists expose dirty oil business

Ian Angus — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:06:53 +0000

Representatives of four Indigenous nations will attend Shell Oil's annual meeting to demand an end to its massive human and ecological rights violations in Canada, Alaska, and Nigeria.

The UN’s ‘Green Economy’ plan is a destructive illusion

Ian Angus — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:57:44 +0000

Pablo Solon: Instead of applying market rules to Nature, we need to forge a new system We must change the capitalist system, not the Earth system.

Australia: 7,000 march against fracking

Ian Angus — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:08:25 +0000

Video: 7,000 people took to the streets in Lismore, New South Wales, on May 12 in a colorful and outspoken action against Coal Seam Gas Mining in the Northern Rivers region.

Capitalism’s destructive quest for extreme energy

Ian Angus — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:16 +0000

To keep the fuel flowing, oil companies are radically increasing the potential for environmental catastrophe. The fight against extreme energy is also a fight against the very soul of an irrational system.