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Environmentalists who oppose ‘extractivism’ on principle are oversimplifying the complex issues faced by the peoples and governments of Latin America today by Federico Fuentes A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America. Understanding their … Continue reading
On Nov. 4th. to 7th. 2014 Venezuela will held the first world public forum on Climate Change. This forum which is organized by Venezuela is part of a process of negotiations from the United Nations and constitutes a space where the people of the world can contribute in the construction of a new climate agreement … Continue reading
November 2 to 12-2014 System Change Not Climate Change From Nov. 4th. to 7th. 2014 Venezuela plans to host the first “Social Pre-COP” aspiring to put civil society at the heart of the global climate change debate. In which ministers would not only talk to each other but also their people about the agreement … Continue reading
Source: eradicatingecocide.com Definition Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished. proposed amendment to the Rome Statute, by Polly Higgins, … Continue reading
By Renfrey Clarke Source: Green Left If modern industrial capitalism were a person, he or she would be on suicide watch. The system that has brought us quantum physics and reality television, modern medicine and the columns of Andrew Bolt is set on a course which, by all the best reckoning, points directly to its … Continue reading
By Chris Williams More than 50% of counties in the United States are now officially designated “disaster” zones. The reason given in 90% of cases is due to the continent-wide drought that has been devastating crop production. 48% of the US corn crop is rated as “poor to very poor”, along with 37% of … Continue reading
Socialist scientist: Radicals who minimize the threat of environmental catastrophe are dead wrong. Stopping capitalist ecocide must be a central goal for the left the 21st century. by Alexandre Costa Alexandre Costa, a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the State University of Ceará in Brazil, is an author of the Brazilian Climate Change Assessment Report. … Continue reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the “Right to Food” took aim at the entire basis on which food is produced and distributed on a global scale. Reflecting the type of progressive analysis of our food system from experts like Vandana Shiva and Michael Pollan, report … Continue reading
By ALBA CIUDAD Translation Revolucion Alimentaria This Saturday environmental groups marched in Caracas to show their support to the Bolivarian government and it’s environmental protection policies. The groups marched to reject the violence and crimes that are being committed against the environment by ultra right groups who cut down trees indiscriminately in order to … Continue reading
This article first appeared in New Politics. Brian Tokar is director of the Institute for Social Ecology, and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Toward Climate Justice (New Compass) and co-editor, with Fred Magdoff of Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review … Continue reading
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