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Climate change: Trump tears up Paris agreement
By William Foley Trump’s decision to remove the US from the Paris climate agreement shows that he represents…
US: Climate change denier takes power
Since taking power Donald Trump has a) given the go ahead to Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines b)…
Our planet can’t wait: System change not climate change!
By Manus Lenihan Climate change is no longer just a distant threat. The town of Fort McMurray in…
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…
“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…
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.
