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Infighting Kills Alberta Green Party
The ecocapitalist party has imploded in a fight over whether to be somewhat moderate or very moderate.
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A Greenish Approach to the Financial Crisis
Or: I Learned Everything I Know About Economics From the Kyoto Accord By Ian Angus editor, Climate and Capitalism If liberal greens and mainstream economists were consistent, these are the solutions they would propose to the global financial meltdown. A sub-prime mortgage tax: The government should introduce a tax on predatory mortgages, starting low and rising gradually over several decades. By “taxing bad things instead of good things,” we will encourage banks to reduce unfair loans to 20% below the 2006 level, by 2020,…
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If Socialism Fails: The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism
From the first day it appeared online, the masthead of Climate and Capitalism has carried the slogan “Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way.” We’ve been quite clear that ecosocialism is not a new theory or brand of socialism — it is socialism with Marx’s important insights on ecology restored, socialism committed to the fight against ecological destruction. But why do we say that the alternative to ecosocialism is barbarism? …. Continue reading this article on Socialist Voice, July 28,…
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The Harper “Apology”—Saying “Sorry” with a Forked Tongue
By Mike Krebs Mike Krebs is an Indigenous activist in Vancouver and a contributing editor of Socialist Voice. On June 11, 2008, Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party, issued an “apology” for the residential school system that over 150,000 Indigenous children were forced through. The hype before and after the statement was enormous, with extensive coverage in all major media. In trying to understand the responses of Indigenous people across Canada to this “apology,” it…
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New at Climate & Capitalism, June 22-28
CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. WHAT’S NEW at http://www.climateandcapitalism.com June 22-28, 2008 ECOSOCIALIST MANIFESTO: COMMENT DEADLINE EXTENDED Make your views known by July 15 STEPHANE DION’S GREEN TAX HOAX Canada’s Liberal Party proposes a tax change that won’t change anything GREEN FASCISM AND THE GREENING OF HATE Population control — the ideology of the green right CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM Why governments in rich countries are completely ignoring…
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New at Climate & Capitalism, June 15-23, 2008
CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. WHAT’S NEW at http://www.climateandcapitalism.com June 15-23, 2008 Thirteen Science Academies Urge Fundamental Social Change Joint Statement from 13 national science academies to the coming G8 meeting in Japan Statistics, Damned Lies, and the Financial Post Bizarre claims by Canada’s leading source of misinformation on climate change ‘Accelerated climate change’ destroying Australia’s food bowl Parts of Australia’s key Murray-Darling river food bowl may be beyond recovery Essential…
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Two Storms, One Root Cause
(From Climate and Capitalism, May 28, 2008) The headlines told the story of an ecological disaster, made worse by capitalist politics. It began with an intense storm. While no specific weather event can be ascribed to global warming, one result of climate change is a significant increase in the intensity of extreme storms. The storm hit a densely-populated river delta, where natural barriers that once would have moderated its fury had been removed in years of anti-environmental mismanagement. It struck an…
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Discussion Begins on 2nd Ecosocialist Manifesto
(From the Ecosocialist International Network website) At the founding Ecosocialist International Network meeting in Paris last October, Ian Angus, Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy were delegated to draft a Second Ecosocialist Manifesto. They have now finished the draft and have submitted it for open international discussion. It can be downloaded in PDF form from the Ecosocialist International Network website: English: <http://tinyurl.com/69lqoq> Portuguese: <http://tinyurl.com/5vgedy> We will have French and Spanish texts available soon, and will gladly receive and post translations into other…
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