Best of the Web
Climate Change for June 20th, 2009
APOCALYPSE NOW
Globe and Mail Environment Reporter Martin Mittelstadt reviews new books by three heavyweights James Lovelock, Lester Brown and John Michael Greer each of whom warns of dire consequences of global warming and peak oil.
- Brace yourselves for apocalypse now — The Globe and Mail
NEEDED: A DIFFERENT GUARDIAN OF THE ARCTIC
Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier argues that as the Northwest Passage sea-ice coverage is lost, instead of aggressively facing climate change, Canada has decided the best way to keep foreign ships from running the passage is with our military. She advocates instead for co-operative management of the Arctic, by means of an Arctic treaty that charges circumpolar indigenous peoples with the stewardship of the Arctic and international co-management boards that would integrate traditional and scientific knowledge to ensure sound and peaceful management of the Arctic’s natural resources.
- NEEDED: A DIFFERENT GUARDIAN OF THE ARCTIC by Sheila Watt-Cloutier — The Globe and Mail
CLIMATE CRUNCH
The economic crisis is leading to falling carbon emissions - so why is it not good for the climate? By Oscar Reyes. Reyes shows how, in the midst of recession, Europe¹s carbon trading systems presents polluting industries a lifeline by cashing in their unwanted permits, while the Œprice signal¹ that is meant to change their polluting ways is rendered largely meaningless.
- CLIMATE CRUNCH by Oscar Reyes — Redpepper Magazine
Video: Leon Panitch, co-editor of Socialist Register , author of Renewing Socialism , explains why capitalist mechanisms like cap and trade won¹t end CO2 emissions.
- Thoroughly modern Marx Pt. 2 by Leo Panitch — Real News Network via Youtube
Economic Crisis and Food Sovereignty
Video: Around the world, hunger is growing, while millions of working farmers face ruin. Even in Canada, unsound and dangerous corporate practices menace our food supply. The worldwide movement for food sovereignty aims to ensure peoples¹ capacity to shape their own food production systems, free from control by agribusiness giants.
- Economic Crisis and Food Sovereignty — Climate and Capitalism Blog
The world should brace itself for millions of climate refugees in coming decades, a mass migration that will be larger than any in human history, says a new report.
- World faces daunting refugee crisis because of climate change by Martin Mittelstaedt — Globe and Mail
Even European governments, with the strongest public commitment to reduce carbon emissions, are using stimulus packages to subsidize fossil fuels to a far greater degree than renewable energy sources.
- More subsidies for fossil fuels in recovery plans by Stephen Leahy for InterPress Service
While the recent convention of the Saskatchewan NDP passed an anti-nuclearization, pro-renewable development resolution, its newly elected leader Dwaine Lingenfelter’, is strong commitment to nuclear development and the linking of nuclear energy to the tar sands development in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- Saskatchewan NDP divided on nuclear power by Don Kossick — Rabble.ca
