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Monbiot: Identity Politics in Climate Change Hell
Commentary, August, 24 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
If you want a glimpse of how the movement against climate change could crumble faster than a summer snowflake, read Ewa Jasiewicz's article, published yesterday on the Guardian's Comment is Free site(1). It is a fine example of the identity politi...
Feffer: Apocalypse Later
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
John Feffer
Feffer's ZSpace page
Assessing the optimists and pessimists of 2008
Monbiot: Coal Scuttled
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Everything now hinges on stopping coal. Whether we prevent runaway climate change largely depends on whether we keep using the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Unless we either leave it in the ground or leave the carbon dioxide it produces in th...
Monbiot: Green Lifeline
Commentary, July, 04 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
A radical new idea could save the world's ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Lipow: Cooling a Fevered Planet
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Gar Lipow
Lipow's ZSpace page
Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa...
Petermann: One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for Industry
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Anne Petermann
Petermann's ZSpace page
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the escalating biodiversi...
Glick: Prioritizing Climate
Commentary, June, 30 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
The hard truth is that humankind is in grave danger of blowing it. Serious action to shift from oil, coal and natural gas to renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation is a good 10 years late, particularly in the USA. And we need to be c...
O'Ceallaigh: Power Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Liam O'Ceallaigh
O'Ceallaigh's ZSpace page
Power Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy: Why the Environmental Movement Should Aim to Abolish Markets and Embrace Democratic Planning of the Economy
Goodman: Weather reports are missing the story
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, ...
Feffer: Mother Earth's Triple Whammy
Znet Article, June, 17 2008
John Feffer
Feffer's ZSpace page
Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out at the pump and the grocery store; but, unless policymakers begin to address all three of these trends as one major crisis, it could get a whole lot worse. Just ask the N...
Glick: By 2030: Only Renewable Energy!
Commentary, June, 03 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
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.
Ribeiro: Climate Genes and Hunger Traders
Znet Article, May, 28 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
Ribeiro's ZSpace page
Faced with the growing food crisis and disasters caused by climate change, the big biotechnology and agri-business corporations have returned to the attack with new enthusiasm, as if they were not the very ones who have caused the crisis. Their mo...
Lopez: Traffic
Graphic, May, 25 2008
Angelo Lopez
Lopez's ZSpace page
Cartoon on Traffic for the April 30, 2008 edition of the Tri-City Voice
Hepburn: Climate Changed
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
John Hepburn
Hepburn's ZSpace page
When Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson join forces with Al Gore and Chevrolet in the fight to save the earth, you've got to wonder what is going on. We are all environmentalists now, as celebrities and business leaders jostle to establish their g...
Hepburn: Australian Climate Movement
Znet Article, May, 16 2008
John Hepburn
Hepburn's ZSpace page
Reflections on the Australian climate movement and it's past and future strategies. First published in the 30th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal 'Social Alternatives'.
Scipes: Reviewing Monbiot's Heat
Commentary, May, 14 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
George Monbiot's latest book is arguably the greatest threat emerging to the "know-nothings" of today who deny global warming and the threat of climate change to human existence on the planet: it is a clearly written, hard-headed analysis that re...
Mckibben: The World at 350
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Bill Mckibben
Mckibben's ZSpace page
Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a lit...
Signatories: Climate Crisis -- Urgent Action Needed Now!
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Many Signatories
Signatories's ZSpace page
The evidence about global warming is more alarming than ever...
Smith: Neandercons: Ice Age!
Graphic, April, 17 2008
Abell Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Your favorite prehistoric presidents are all over the slowly approaching problem of global climate change...
Bello: Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
Znet Article, April, 07 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
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.
