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Glick: Gandhi Today
Commentary, October, 04 2009
Ted Glick
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140 years today Mohandus Gandhi was born in Gujarat province in India. I didn't learn this from the New York Times, CNN, or any other mainstream media source. I didn't learn about it from progressive media outlets, although it is very possible tha...
Monbiot: A Millionaire with a Super Yacht Is a Larger Strain on Resources Than Hundreds of Peasant Families
Znet Article, October, 04 2009
George Monbiot
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It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It isn't population; it's consumption. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.
Shiva: The Injustice of Carbon Offsets
Znet Article, September, 20 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened
Glick: Can We Make It?
Commentary, September, 01 2009
Ted Glick
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More than once over the last several years I have talked with people who understand the deep hole humankind has dug for itself because of our reliance on fossil fuels and the dominant system’s environmentally destructive model of “development....
Glick: Health Care, Climate and the Progressive Movement
Commentary, August, 18 2009
Ted Glick
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The last week or so has been the right-wingers-at-town-meetings moment, and it looks like it's going to be supplemented by something similar but different: rallies organized by fossil-fuel-supporting corporations in these states: Texas, Georgia, M...
D'arcy: Environmentalism as if Winning Mattered
Znet Article, August, 12 2009
Steve D'arcy
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Proposes a strategy for the environmental movement, which actually aims at winning, based on the self-organization of grassroots activism and community-based counter-capitalist alternatives.
Monbiot: The Busybody State
Commentary, August, 05 2009
George Monbiot
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Is it paranoia, or are they really out to get us? Most of the time it's paranoia. Every week I'm approached by people whispering about vapour trails from planes being used to control our minds, free energy devices suppressed by oil companies or mi...
Glick: James Lovelock and the End Times
Commentary, August, 03 2009
Ted Glick
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British scientist and author James Lovelock has just had published a follow-up book to his 2006 book, "The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity." This 2009 one is entitled, "The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning."...
Monbiot: Pulling Yourself Off the Ground By Your Whiskers
Commentary, July, 17 2009
George Monbiot
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Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work
Shiva: Climate Change at the Third Pole
Commentary, May, 17 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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I write from Ladakh, where we are studying the impact of climate change and evolving participatory adaptation and disaster preparedness strategies with local communities.
Landau: The Crisis Unseen
Commentary, March, 03 2009
Saul Landau
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After the November election, liberal Democrats began to scream for rapid bailouts and threw money at bankers who then shocked the lawmakers by behaving like bankers. They took the taxpayers' money and spent it on themselves. "Let me tell you about...
Monbiot: Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Commentary, January, 21 2009
George Monbiot
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How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses' right to fly?
Glick: Don't Just Mourn, Escalate!
Commentary, December, 09 2008
Ted Glick
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My Thanksgiving holiday and the days right after it weren't the greatest, and it's not because I didn't enjoy spending time with my extended family in Pennsylvania. It's because, literally right before I left home to drive there, I read a couple o...
Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...
Russell: Wise Up Dominion!
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Joshua kahn Russell
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Coal-field residents and allies lock down at a Dominion coal-fired power plant construction site in Virginia.
Monbiot: Green Lifeline
Commentary, July, 04 2008
George Monbiot
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A radical new idea could save the world's ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Glick: By 2030: Only Renewable Energy!
Commentary, June, 03 2008
Ted Glick
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As the climate movement increasingly focuses its energies on Capitol Hill, Dr. Navarro's insights about the potential negative impacts of doing so in the wrong way are worthy of serious consideration.
Bello: Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
Znet Article, April, 07 2008
Walden Bello
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There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous.
Tokar: Why No Real Progress at Bali Climate Talks? Toward a People's Agenda for Climate Justice
Znet Article, December, 19 2007
Brian Tokar
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With all the fanfare that usually accompanies such gatherings, delegates to the recent UN climate talks on the Indonesian island of Bali returned to their home countries declaring victory. Despite the continued obstructionism of the US delegation,...
Shiva: Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change
Commentary, December, 13 2007
Vandana2 Shiva
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Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change
