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Weissman: BP CEO Supports a Boycott?
Commentary, May, 28 2010
Robert Weissman
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Does BP CEO Tony Hayward want millions of people to take the BP boycott pledge?
Glick: Will the BP Oil Spill Be the Spark?
Commentary, May, 24 2010
Ted Glick
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Just about a week ago I was on a conference call with leaders of about a dozen national and regional groups which have made the climate crisis a top priority of their work. The two main things we talked about were the prospects for decent climate ...
Goodman: Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Amy Goodman
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“Manslaughter,” reads the United States Code, “is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.” It goes on, “Whoever is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.” I...
Friel: Bjorn Lomborg on CO2
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Howard Friel
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Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions very steeply and very quickly, despite the fact that this is probably the most complicated and com...
Klein: A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
Znet Article, April, 27 2010
Naomi Klein
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It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to ma...
Goodman: Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Amy Goodman
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Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from E...
Tokar: 40 Years of Earth Days
Commentary, April, 22 2010
Brian Tokar
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The 40th anniversary of the original Earth Day is upon us, and many seasoned environmentalists are nostalgic for the heady days of the 1970s, when 20 million people hit in the streets and eventually got Richard Nixon to sign a series of ambitious ...
Monbiot: What Links The Banking Crisis And The Volcano?
Commentary, April, 21 2010
George Monbiot
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We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature.
Galeano: Message to Bolivia: Nature’s Rights Are Also Human Rights
Commentary, April, 19 2010
Eduardo Galeano
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Message of the author of the Open Veins of Latin America to participants of the First World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba from April 19 to 22, as an alternative to the Copenhagen Cl...
Glick: A Response to Bond and D’Sa
Commentary, April, 07 2010
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa have written an article, the latest in a series of back and forth’s between climate justice activists mainly in the U.S. about strategy and tactics. It has been mainly U.S. activists because a major focus of the debat...
Bond: Climate Justice Opportunities After US Carbon Market and Legislative Crashes
Commentary, April, 01 2010
Patrick Bond
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Fierce debating about United States climate justice (CJ) strategies and tactics on ZNet over the past couple of months leave us ready to continue exploring comradely but sharp differences.
Friel: Andrew Revkin’s Climate Centrism
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Howard Friel
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In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T...
Shiva: Water Wisdom
Commentary, March, 15 2010
Vandana Shiva
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Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.
Friel: Lomborg’s Public Diplomacy, Part 1/5
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Howard Friel
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Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp...
Dimaggio: Manufactured Dissent
Znet Article, March, 09 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Global warming has graduated to the status of one of the great enduring political issues of our time. Unfortunately, public discourse has taken a dramatic step backward in light of corporate media’s attacks against the scientific community. Scie...
George: Global governance priorities in an interdependent world:
Video, March, 07 2010
Susan George
George's ZSpace page
The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labor to capital.
Glick: Principles, Program, Strategy, Tactics
Commentary, March, 04 2010
Ted Glick
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I have discovered, over the course of my years as an organizer for positive social change, that it is important that members of an organization or movement learn to distinguish between principles, program, strategy and tactics. An inability to do ...
biomess: Wood fueled biomass energy worse for carbon dioxide emissions than fossil fuels
Blog Post, March, 01 2010
uk biomess
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Wood fueled biomass energy worse for carbon dioxide emissions than fossil fuels by Chris Matera (Massachusetts Forest Watch)
Goodman: Cracking Down on Fracking
Znet Article, February, 25 2010
Amy Goodman
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Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his ...
Hahnel: Why Cap And Trade And Not A Carbon Tax?
Commentary, February, 25 2010
Robin Hahnel
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A carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade unless there are compelling practical reasons a tax won't work as well.
