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UN-backed banker alliance announces “green” plan to transform the global financial system
The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.
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Lasting environmental and health impacts of U.S. chemical warfare in Southeast Asia – 50 years on
The Vietnam War (1955-1975) is known to the Vietnamese as the “American War,” or the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation.”
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature.
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Carbon tax over-rated
Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, emissions must fall by 45% below 2010 levels by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5°C, instead of the 2.7°C now expected.
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‘The Return of the Dialectics of Nature’: 2020 Deutscher Prize Lecture by John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster – Deutscher Memorial Lecture
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COP26 farce shows that the ‘build back better’ dreams have been crushed
The popularity of “build back better” as a slogan reflects that no-one in their right mind would be overly enthused by the idea of “building back the same”.
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COP-out 26
Marxist economist Michael Roberts shares his take on the Glasgow climate talks—what is on and what is not on the agenda.
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The power to change the system
With COP26 just around the corner, a wave of industrial action in Scotland is demonstrating the huge opportunity of linking workers’ struggle with climate organising. Sara Bennett, Pete Cannell and Raymond Morrell argue that huge shifts in climate struggle are on the way, and that building these links will be essential to winning revolutionary change.
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Will the people with guns allow our Planet to breathe: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2021)
It is perhaps fitting that United States President Joe Biden arrived in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) on the climate catastrophe with eighty-five cars in tow months after declaring ‘I’m a car guy’ (for details on the climate catastrophe, see our Red Alert no. 11, ‘Only One Earth’).
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Will Glasgow fix broken climate finance promises?
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Current climate mitigation plans will result in a catastrophic 2.7°C world temperature rise. US$1.6–3.8 trillion is needed annually to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5°C.
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What to expect from COP26: climate action, climate justice or greenwashing?
If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: “A spectre is haunting humanity—the spectre of extinction.”
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World gathering of peoples for our Mother Earth and against the climate crisis – conclusions document
We are children of our Mother Earth, and as such we must take care of her and protect her, respecting her rights and fulfilling our duties and obligations to protect Mother Earth as a living and sacred being.
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As Chávez said, ‘let’s not change the climate, let’s change the system!’: a conversation with Max Ajl
An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26.
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COP26: why advanced countries must proportionately make by far the biggest cuts in carbon emissions–factual briefing
Fortunately, the scientific data produced by the IPCC makes it possible to calculate the real changes which are required to combat climate change.
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Review: ‘The Great Climate Cop Out’
The 25 page pamphlet lays out concisely and effectively why we cannot look to heads of government under a capitalist system to come to an agreement on phasing out fossils fuels, cutting emissions and creating a more sustainable economy.
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Foodstocks, bio-fuels and hunger
THE Modi government’s attempt to “explain” away India’s slipping from being 94th on the world hunger index in 2020 to 101st in 2021, a rank well below that of neighbours Pakistan, Nepal or Bangladesh, by questioning the “methodology” of the index, is jejune enough; but even more shocking is its total inability to see the reason behind the acute hunger in the country.
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Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.
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Coming Climate Summit must take due care of the woes of developing Countries
Discussions in the forthcoming COP26 should focus on democratisation of climate finance that enables procedural climate justice.
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The coral atoll and the iPhone
I think Matt Cooper takes a too narrow definition of “metabolism” as a rather dull process of material exchange that occurs within a cell. From my reading, as a non-specialist, Marx was using the term in a broader sense as the material and ultimately purposeless means by which complex order emerges from disordered matter.
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Of course they would: on Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘The Ministry for the Future’
Everything is always different, yes, fine–but everything is really different now.