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Posts relating to environmental issues

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,

Feb 6, 2026

Campaigns & Issues·Environment

90 corporations responsible for two thirds of global emissions

Individualizing the cause of climate change will only conceal the truth. A study published in the journal Climate Change indicated that since the dawn of the Industrial Era just 90 companies have caused two thirds of all man-made global warming emissions. All

Apr 2, 2014

Environment·News & Analysis

Environment: Profit-fuelled global warming

To develop a carbon-neutral global economy, economic and political power must be taken out of the hands of the ‘noxious 90’, writes Manny Thain. Predictably, empty words were all that came out of the UN-sponsored climate talks in Warsaw – the 19th

Jan 5, 2014

Environment

Free the Arctic 30

During a protest against the drilling for oil in the Arctic by the Russian company, Gazprom, 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists were arrested after their boat was boarded and seized by armed Russian border police.

Nov 29, 2013

Environment

Climate change – just how can it be tackled?

This September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a highly anticipated report detailing the latest findings on global warming. Drawn from the meticulous, peer-reviewed studies of over 800 leading scientists, the IPCC document refutes claims that climate change is uncertain,

Oct 18, 2013

Environment

Fuelling world hunger – biofuels not the route to sustainability

Biofuels are fuels that are produced from living or geologically recent organisms such as plants. These have long been regarded by some as a possible alternative to fossil fuels and contributor in solving the environmental crisis facing the planet as a renewable

Aug 15, 2013

Environment

Environment: Climate change accelerates

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the main cause of global warming, has reached a critical level. Carbon dioxide is released by the burning of coal, gas and oil, so called fossil fuels.

Aug 7, 2013

Environment·World News

Environment: China’s pollution overload

People in China’s cities are choking on smog. This past winter the capital Beijing, and other northern cities, suffered their worst air pollution readings on record.

Jul 25, 2013

Environment

Doha climate talks dead-end

The latest UN-sponsored climate talks in Doha in December ended in total failure – just as previous summits have. Friends of the Earth called the talks a "disaster zone" and Greenpeace asked of the negotiators: "What planet are you on?" As usual,

Feb 4, 2013

Environment

Too many people – Has world population reached its limits?

One of the major divisions within environmentalists is on the issue of population and ‘overpopulation’, with many claiming that a key cause of environmental damage is too many people. The British Royal Society recently released a report, People and the Planet, which

Jul 1, 2012

Environment

Global warming: Socialist plan for the environment is needed

Global warming is the overriding environmental issue facing the world. 20 years have passed since the United Nations’ (UN) ’Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro highlighted the problem. However, the output of greenhouse gases that cause climate change has continued to escalate

Jun 7, 2012

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Environment- Page 10

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

90 corporations responsible for two thirds of global emissions

Environment: Profit-fuelled global warming

Free the Arctic 30

Climate change – just how can it be tackled?

Fuelling world hunger – biofuels not the route to sustainability

Environment: Climate change accelerates

Environment: China’s pollution overload

Doha climate talks dead-end

Too many people – Has world population reached its limits?

Global warming: Socialist plan for the environment is needed

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of the Socialist Party

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden