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Climate change
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Review: No Is Not Enough – Defeating the New Shock Politics
Naomi Klein’s incisive ability to speak truth to power is precisely why she’s one of the most popular contemporary left-wing authors and commentators in the world.
US: Climate change denier takes power
Since taking power Donald Trump has a) given the go ahead to Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines b)…
Capitalism, climate change and the Anthropecene
The following article by originally published in the December/January 2016 edition of Socialism Today, the magazine of the…
Climate Conference: Empty cheers after Paris agreement
By Arne Johansson. From Offensiv, newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (sister party of the Socialist Party in Sweden) An historic…
Simply obscene – the wealth of the 1%
The rising tide of capitalist inequality
Capitalist profiteering is destroying our planet
The world is hurtling towards environmental disaster. In the words of prominent American climate scientist, James Hansen climate change has brought us to the "precipice of a great “tipping point” where we are facing the prospect of the earth transitioning into “a different planet” in terms of climate and environment.
“This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein’s newly published book is a welcome and much needed addition to the debates on how to tackle global warming.
Climate change – preparing for war
The quickening pace of global warming poses a threat to US national security, says a leading, federally-funded military research organisation
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 but seven of the 90 were energy companies producing oil, gas and coal.
Environment: Profit-fuelled global warming
To develop a carbon-neutral global economy, economic and political power must be taken out of the hands of…