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At an organizing meeting in New York, the System Change Not Climate Change coalition adopted plans to reach out to other groups, strengthen environmental activism, and work with capitalism’s victims by Zach Zill and Michael Ware After roughly a year of organizing as the Ecosocialist Contingent and then System Change Not Climate Change, organizers in our coalition … Continue reading
To prevent catastrophic climate change, Britain’s top experts call for emissions cuts that require “revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony” by Renfrey Clarke “Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony.”[1] That was in a blog posting last year by Kevin Anderson, … Continue reading
by Don Fitz The question is not should we advocate reducing production within capitalist society but rather: How do we best relate to those struggles that are already occurring? Activists across the globe are challenging economic expansion which threatens the survival of humanity. It has never been more urgent to provide a vision of a new society that … Continue reading
By Martin Khor Below is an overview of the outcomes of the UN Climate Conference (known as COP19 of the UNFCCC) that took place in Warsaw for two weeks, ending on 23 November. The UN Climate Conference held in Warsaw has set up a new international mechanism to help developing countries affected by loss and … Continue reading
At the climate talks in Warsaw, rich countries stalled, poor countries walked out, and climate justice activists chanted ’The Philippines, Pakistan, New Orleans: Change the System, by Chris Williams “The smell of inaction” is how Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth Mozambique’s international program director for climate justice and energy, summed up the atmosphere inside the … Continue reading
By DEMOCRACY NOW! http://www.democracynow.org – A group of 133 developing nations have walked out of a key part of the climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, amidst a conflict over how countries who have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases should be held financially responsible for some of the damage caused by extreme weather in nations with low … Continue reading
As continents burn and extreme weather accelerates, three of the world’s richest countries are leading the fight to do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions by Binoy Kampmark The climate change saboteurs are mucking in with their bits of devastating advice. Australia, as it promised to do with its new conservative government, has taken the lead … Continue reading
Filipino socialists respond to Typhoon Haiyen disaster: To save lives, redistribute food now! To prevent future catastrophes, stop economic and environmental plunder! Statement released by the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM, a Filipino socialist party) in response the humanitarian disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Details on how to donate to the PLM’s relief efforts follow the … Continue reading
By Leonardo Boff Theologian-Philosopher Earthcharter Commission On September 27th the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, IPCC, consisting of a few hundred scientists, gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, to evaluate the level of global warming, and they shared with us some worrisome data: «the concentrations of carbon dioxide, (CO2), methane, (CH4), and nitrous oxide, (N2O), … Continue reading
BY NORA MCDEVITT JULY 2, 2013 Follow Nora McDevitt on Twitter Law against ecocide would enable governments to take action backed by legislation instead of nice words: Polly Higgins Polly Higgins is an international environmental attorney, award-winning author, and a long time advocate for the earth’s rights. Higgins and I met in 2009 on the United … Continue reading
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