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Znet Article Sinai: The Middle Kingdom Convulses With Change

Znet Article, April, 13 2006 Agnès Sinai
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Every spring, fierce winds, sweeping across the arid landscape of Inner Mongolia, blow walls of sand hundreds of kilometres eastwards, periodically enveloping Beijing and turning day to night. The authorities have planted thousands of hedges in th...

Znet Article Cromwell: The Curiosities of Utopian Thinking

Znet Article, March, 28 2006 David Cromwell
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Sean O'Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: "in answer to the many letters we get criticising some of our coverage, we don't make cars. We just write about them. [...] We try to concentrate on telling our r...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Imperial Hubris

Zmag Article, March, 01 2006 David Barsamian
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T ariq Ali was born in Lahore, then a part of British-ruled India, now in Pakistan. For many years he has been based in London where he is an editor of New Left Review. He’s written more than...

Znet Article Monbiot: We Are All Killers Until We Stop Flying

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 George Monbiot
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At last the battlelines have been drawn, and the first major fight over climate change is about to begin. All over the country, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the greatest future cause ...

Znet Article Hansen: Climate Change: On The Edge

Znet Article, February, 18 2006 Jim Hansen
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A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be dr...

Znet Article Masaki: After Kyoto: Japanese firms rush to cash in on gas emission reductions

Znet Article, February, 17 2006 Hisane Masaki
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After Kyoto: Japanese firms rush to cash in on gas emission reductions

Znet Article Klare: The Permanent Energy Crisis

Znet Article, February, 10 2006 Michael t. Klare
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President Bush's State of the Union comment that the United States is "addicted to oil" can be read as pure political opportunism. With ever more Americans expressing anxiety about high oil prices, freakish weather patterns, and abiding American t...

Znet Article Holmes: Fuelling Controversy

Znet Article, February, 03 2006 Tim Holmes
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In the mid-1950s, the tobacco industry was facing a major crisis. With the publication of influential scientific studies, evidence of the link between smoking and cancer was becoming harder to ignore – and, more and more, the media were ge...

Znet Article Dittmar: Climate Change

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Michael Dittmar
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"One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes." (Noam Chomsky, 'Deterring Democracy', Vintage, 1992, p.303) Of Realists And St...

Znet Article Cromwell: Point of No Return?

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 David Cromwell
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Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today's dramatic front page as a case in point. The paper depicts the Earth from space ov...

Znet Article Nankivell: China's Pollution and the Threat to Domestic and Regional Stability

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Nathan Nankivell
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[China's economic boom has an environmental dark side. While China's economy continues to grow at a rate of more than 8% annually, as it has for more than two decades, the country's environment and the Chinese people are paying a steep price. C...

Znet Article Stainsby: Canada, the US, and the Tar Sands

Znet Article, December, 28 2005 Macdonald Stainsby
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You can be certain that there is a Canadian Federal election underway when a sitting Prime Minister of the Federal Liberal Party-- considered the party of permanent rule north of the 49th parallel-- takes direct shots at the President of the Unite...

Znet Article Lobe: 2005 Costliest Year for Extreme Weather

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Dec (IPS) - The world has suffered more than 200 billion dollars in economic losses as a result of weather-related natural disasters over the past year, making 2005 the costliest year on record, according to preliminary estimates relea...

Znet Article Edwards: The Insane Society

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 David Edwards
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In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Struggle Against Ourselves

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 George Monbiot
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  I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in ...

Znet Article Glick: Grassroots Mobilizing to Demand Action on Climate Crisis

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Ted Glick
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From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about global warming are holding events later this week to demand action by the federal government and the thousands of delegates at the United Nations Climate Conference m...

Znet Article Lean: The Big Thaw

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Geoffrey Lean
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Greenland's glaciers have begun to race towards the ocean, leading scientists to predict that the vast island's ice cap is approaching irreversible meltdown, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Research to be published in a few days' time shows...

Znet Article Glick: Taking Up Catastrophic Climate Change

Znet Article, November, 14 2005 Ted Glick
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How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to change focus and work on a new one, perhaps continuing with the old issue(s), or not? I've been thinking about this recently. I've be...

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