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Tag Archives: green economy
Climate change and development
Another devastating sign of capitalism’s degeneracy is its failure even to slow down climate change. Youth have spearheaded a new movement to control it. It is the actual social relations, relations of production, forms of labor, relationship to the land and other means of production, by which we can judge what must be uprooted, and to what extent any society has or has not moved to a path of development that breaks from capitalism’s never-ending growth of capital, or, as Marx put it, production for production’s sake. Continue reading →
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Tagged agrofuels, Aguán, Barro Blanco, biofuels, Bolivia, Brazil, capitalism, Clean Development Mechanism, climate change, Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian East, Dinant Corporation, Ecuador, Evo Morales, Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD and for Life, global warming, green economy, honduras, Indigenous peoples, Jaremar Corporation, Karl Marx, Keystone XL pipeline, labor, NO REDD+! in RIO+20 -- A Declaration to Decolonize the Earth and the Sky, Onésimo Rodríguez, Panama, peasants, REDD+, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, Rio+20 People's Summit, state capitalism, Sustainable development, tar sands, TIPNIS, United Nations, Venezuela, World Bank
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Climate chaos and capitalism
From the new September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: Climate chaos and capitalism Climate chaos takes an ever increasing toll. In this year of extremes: the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at a record low; July was … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Beijing, British Columbia, capitalism, climate change, climate change deniers, climate chaos, Coal Export Action, Current sea level rise, Earth Summit, Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, environment, First Nations Canada, floods, fossil fuels, global warming, green economy, Helena Montana, Keystone Pipeline, Mitt Romney, Oil sands, Philippines, Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20, Stewart Phillip, Sustainable development, Tar Sands Blockade, Texas, TransCanada Corporation, Tropical Storm Sendong, Tropical Storm Washi, Typhoon Sendong, Typhoon Washi, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, wildfires, world food crisis
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