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CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++++++++++++++ March 8, 2011 IF SOCIALISM FAILS: THE SPECTRE OF 21ST CENTURY BARBARISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3910 Rosa Luxemburg’s warning is more relevant than ever today. EUROPE’S CARBON MARKET SCAM http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3915 Carbon trading doesn’t and won’t lead to emissions reductions. In fact, that was never its purpose and that’s why large polluters love it IN DAKAR, BOLIVIA WORKED TO BUILD THE GLOBAL CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3901 We stopped them at COP15 in Copenhagen and we can stop them at COP17 in Durban but only if the social movements and grassroots NGOs are united, and are building a united front with governments of the Global South and all progressive forces and institutions of the world. RIO+20 AND THE RUSH TO SELL NATURE’S INVISIBLE LABOR http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3898 Commodifying the “natural services” involved in the world’s carbon cycle (climate change) is just the first stage of commodifying and privatizing nature as a whole to create a new world “green economy.” GREEN TRADE UNIONIST: “NO PLACE FOR MALTHUS IN THE GREEN PARTY” http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3886 “I just don’t see how their bitter philosophy has any place in a party which stands for social and ecological justice …” CHINA PLANS BIG CUTS IN ENERGY INTENSITY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3905 China aims to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent in the five years to 2015, Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday at the opening of the parliament’s annual session. ++++++++++++ Other recent articles: CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS ARE ‘DANGEROUSLY OPTIMISTIC’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=386 THE REAL COST OF COAL http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3855 MOHAWK COMMUNITIES CONDEMN NUCLEAR WASTE SHIPMENTS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3839 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com