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Statement of International Solidarity with Venezuela’s Seed Law On December 23 2015, Venezuela’s national assembly passed a new seed law banning the import, production, and planting of GMO seeds and protecting the production and free exchange of seed varieties of Venezuela’s farming communities (Indigenous, peasant, and Afro-descendant) among other provisions. The law is significant both … Continue reading
In the present planetary epoch, the concept of sustainable human development, as a way of conceiving of socialism, represents Marx’s most valuable legacy. No other ecological analysis has such breadth and power. From Climate & Capitalism John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. His most recent book, written with Paul Burkett, is Marx and … Continue reading
World Health Organization News Release, An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from WHO. Environmental risk factors, such as air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, climate change, and ultraviolet … Continue reading
To avoid challenging the fossil fuel profiteers, the Paris negotiators bet on untested and dangerous geoengineering technologies. Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro is the author of Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work (Merlin Press, 2013). This article, which will also be published in French in Inprecor, has been translated for Climate and Capitalism by Ian Angus. … Continue reading
CONVINCED that as children of Mother Earth, our mission is the responsibility with Life according to what our parents and grandparents taught us. FEELING that the codes, understanding, knowledge and arts of the ancient peoples from the world were ignored by Western civilization and that now the world needs to rescue all the ancient … Continue reading
Leonardo Boff Theologian-Philosopher Earthcharter Commission Before engaging in commentary, is worth noting a few features of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter, Laudato sí’. This is the first time a Pope had discussed ecology as holistic ecology (because it goes beyond the environment) in such a complete form. Great surprise: he develops the theme within a new … Continue reading
Interview with the author of This Changes Everything: “If you can marry an economic justice agenda with climate action, people will fight for that future” Basta! : We seem to be heading straight toward climate disaster. We know what will happen if we do nothing about climate change, yet nothing really changes. Why is … Continue reading
By CORY FISCHER HOFFMAN Lima, (Venezuelanalysis.com) – No binding commitments to action appear to be coming from the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru. Venezuela’s Foreign Minister, Rafael Ramírez, and African nations ask the developed countries to take responsibility for their disproportionate levels of greenhouse emissions. Inside the COP20 Over 10,000 people from 195 … Continue reading
Reflections from the Social Pre-COP Written by Maruška Mileta from Young Friends of the Earth Europe; contributions by the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. A four day gathering of civil society and social movements (Social Pre-COP) on Margarita Island in Venezuela concluded on November 7th, after having given communities affected by climate change a … Continue reading
Porlamar, November 6th, 2014 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Over 80 social movement organizations from around the world have converged on Margarita Island, Venezuela to discuss and debate climate change policy. The unique meeting, hosted by the Venezuelan government, brings together government ministers from 47 countries with 20 delegates from global civil society to negotiate a policy platform … Continue reading
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