[Marxism] Confronting Injustice: A must-read book for today's activists
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My review of an important new book by a young Canadian climate justice and anti-poverty activist “Confronting Injustice is a powerful call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change.” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2014/04/23/confronting-injustice-must-read-book/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 6, 2014
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com Recently published articles: ... WHAT DID THAT 'NASA-FUNDED COLLAPSE STUDY' REALLY SAY? http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4OW A critical evaluation of a widely reported study that supposedly proves that only social equality and a rapid shift to renewables can prevent the collapse of western civilization. (This article is already our second most popular new article of 2014.) CLIMATE CRISIS: THE RICH DON'T WANT SOLUTIONS http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Qo The latest IPCC report inadvertently shows that corporations and their governments are determined to avoid protecting the poor from climate change. A MARXIST VIEW OF ECOLOGY AND HUMAN HISTORY http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4PS Book Review: Simon Butler says Martin Empson's 'Land and Labour' is a very readable Marxist history of humanity's relationship with the rest of nature and an important contribution to the movement for ecosocialism WORLD PEASANT MOVEMENT: SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA! http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4PN Via Campesina condemns right wing efforts to destabilize Venezuela and reverse the immense achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution. PLASTIC PLAGUE http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Oy Book Review: 'Plastic Ocean,' is an important contribution to broad awareness of the conflict between our systems of production and the circle of life. 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
[Marxism] What did that 'NASA-funded collapse study' really say?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What did that 'NASA-funded collapse study' really say? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2014/03/31/nasa-collapse-study/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism: New articles, Feb. 2, 2014
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, February 2, 2014 A NEW STAGE FOR ECOSOCIALIST UNITY AND ACTION http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Mc System Change Not Climate Change adopts plans to reach out to other groups, strengthen environmental activism, and work with capitalism's victims TWO SIDES OF POPULATIONISM'S BAD PENNY http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Lu Ian Angus reviews two books that predict demographic disaster. One says there are too many babies, the other says there aren't enough. GLOBAL INEQUALITY, ILLUSTRATED, DESCRIBED, EXPLAINED http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4M9 "The more the capitalist has accumulated, the more is he able to accumulate." FRACKING CAPITALISM http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4LO Derek Wall reviews an 'essential resource for everyone engaged in fighting the fracking menace' PETE SEEGER, 1919-2014 http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4LJ Pete sings an ecosocialist song, written before the word existed. ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 47 http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4LW ++China's one-child policy not gone yet ++Black carbon worse than thought ++Pollution and poverty in West Virginia ++Millions of hectares of land degrading 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
Re: [Marxism] Source of Rosa Luxemburg Quote?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For me this sort of thing is what makes Marxmail a great resource. Thanks to everyone who replied. Summing up: Lasalle in 1862 wrote: "Alle große politische Aktion besteht im Aussprechen dessen, was ist, und beginnt damit. Alle politische Kleingeisterei besteht in dem Verschweigen und bemänteln dessen, was ist." Which translates into English as: “All great political action consists of and begins with, speaking out about that which is. All political petty-mindedness consists of being silent and covering up that which is.” Luxemburg in 1906 paraphrased Lasalle. Possibly she didn't have the original available and was quoting from memory? She wrote: "Wie Lassalle sagte, ist und bleibt die revolutionärste Tat, immer ›das laut zu sagen, was ist." Which translates into English as "As Lassalle said, it is and remains the most revolutionary act to always 'say loudly what is'". Part of that appears to have been translated in the Rosa Luxemburg Reader as the sentence I originally asked for help identifying: "The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening." And just to complicate things, in 1933 Trotsky also paraphrased Lasalle: "Ferdinand Lassalle, who was no stranger to opportunism or adventurism, nevertheless expressed perfectly well the fundamental requirement of revolutionary politics: 'Every great action begins with the statement of what is.'" Thanks again Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Source of Rosa Luxemburg Quote?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 'The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.' That sentence, attributed to Rosa Luxemburg, appears in many places on the net, but none that I've found gives an actual source. Can anyone tell me where it can be found in her works? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Help wanted: Mandel on 'abundance' after capitalism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In his 1992 book "Power and Money," Ernest Mandel rejected the idea that "abundance" in a post-capitalist society would mean "a boundless supply of all goods and services." (p. 205) He said that he had "many times pointed out the absurdity of such a notion." Can anyone direct me to other books or articles in which Mandel made that point? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism: New Articles, Dec. 8, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, December 8, 2013 CLIMATE POLITICS MUST BE AS RADICAL AS THE CLIMATE CRISIS http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4I0 Simon Butler: To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality. ON THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4HX Chris Williams: "We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension. " ECOSOCIALIST PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIES http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4HQ Video of talks and discussion at a public forum on "Strategies to Stop Climate Change" hosted by the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group, in Vancouver, BC, on December 3 YUEN AND ANGUS DEBATE 'ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHISM' http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4HF Replying to a critique in Monthly Review, Eddie Yuen says Ian Angus "misses my central problematic of politicization." Angus says Yuen's response displays "the most debilitating of common leftist neuroses." ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 42 http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4HB More recommended reading for ecosocialists and other greens and lefts. ++ Marx and the rift in the universal metabolism of nature ++ NZ union leader on the struggle against climate change, and for socialism ++ System change or climate change? ++ What climate denial has learnt from tobacco denial ++ China accounts for 100% of world poverty reduction 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
[Marxism] Help needed -- source of Horkheimer quote
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm trying to locate the original source of Max Horkheimer's famous statement, "Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism." I assume that he said that in German, but it may have been English. Can anyone point me to the original? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Yuen and Angus debate ‘environmentalcatastrophism’
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Replying to a critique in Monthly Review, Eddie Yuen says Ian Angus “misses my central problematic of politicization.” Angus says Yuen’s response displays “the most debilitating of common leftist neuroses.” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/12/02/yuen-angus-debate-environmental- catastrophism/ 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
[Marxism] Help needed -- Access to Lexis nexis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone on this list have access to Lexis-Nexis? I'm trying to trace changes in the frequency of publication of a word. Please write me offline if you can help. ---- Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, October 21, 2013.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, October 21, 2013 Feature articles OCEANS ON THE BRINK OF ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4DK Marine scientists say the health of the oceans is in crisis. A 'deadly trio' of emission impacts may have already initiated a mass extinction event, a mass die-off of species and catastrophic loss of biodiversity. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UK GREEN LEFT Green Left activist Sean Thompson says ecosocialists should leave the rightward-moving Green Party, and join the effort to build a new political party of the left in Britain. http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4DD COLOMBIAN PEASANTS MOBILIZE TO BLOCK GIANT EL QUIMBO DAM Laborers, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers unite to block construction of the giant El Quimbo Dam, a multinational project that would destroy the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of peasant families in southern Colombia. http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Do DID MCGILL UNIVERSITY WHITEWASH ASBESTOS? http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4E6 Industry-funded research at one of Canada's largest universities has been used to cover up the overwhelming scientific evidence that asbestos is deadly = Ian's Ecosocialist Notebook THE BEST SENTENCE I'VE READ ABOUT POSTMODERNISM http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4DN BITUMEN VS CIGARETTES: CANADA'S DOUBLE STANDARD ON CARCINOGENS http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4E4 IS OIL SAFER IN PIPELINES THAN RAIL? NOPE. http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Ec ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 39 http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Ej ** Cops attack fracking protest ** Texas activists fight big oil ** Capitalism vs. earth ** Incineration blocks zero waste ** Forest offset scammers 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
Re: [Marxism] Help locating book - Humanism and Anti-Humanism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wrote: > I am trying to obtain a copy of "Humanism and Anti-Humanism" by Kate > Soper. (HarperCollins, 1986) And this is what I love about Marxmail ... Mission accomplished in 5 minutes. Thank you! Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Help locating book - Humanism and Anti-Humanism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am trying to obtain a copy of "Humanism and Anti-Humanism" by Kate Soper. (HarperCollins, 1986) It is out of print, and the libraries I have access to don't have it. The few used copies available through online booksellers are exorbitantly priced. ($900 for a 155-page book that cost $10 when it was new!) Can anyone help me locate an electronic copy -- PDF or other? Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com -- 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
[Marxism] What's new on Climate & Capitalism, October 2, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, October 2, 2013 WALL STREET TO EARTH: 'WE DON'T MIND AND YOU DON'T MATTER' http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/27/wall-street-earth-dont-mind-dont-matter/ Why the stock market didn't crash in response to the IPCC report on climate change - and what that reveals about the inability of capitalists to address or even worry about the climate crisis FRED MAGDOFF ON THE GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/10/01/video-fred-magdoff-climat/ Video: The co-author of 'What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism' makes the case for radical social and economic change as the only to stop the drive towards planetary destruction A DECLARATION ON CLIMATE JUSTICE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/24/declaration-climate-justice/ "We demand a world where our children and future generations are assured of fair and just opportunities for social stability, employment, a healthy planet and prosperity." IPCC REPORT: HUMAN-CAUSED WARMING IS 'UNEQUIVOCAL' http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/27/ipcc-report-human-caused-warming-unequivocal/ C&C will have much more to say about this important report. For now, here's a quick summary of the key messages. = Ecosocialist news TAR SANDS PIPELINE FACES GROWING OPPOSITION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/10/01/energyeast-pipeline-opposition/ TransCanada's EnergyEast pipeline scheme is being challenged from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments, environmental and grassroots groups, and even from other pipeline companies. Together, these forces can stop the latest plan to spread dirty tar sands oil across Canada and around the world. HUNDREDS ATTEND LOS ANGELES ECOSOCIALIST CONFERENCE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/26/hundreds-attend-los-angeles-ecosocialist-conference/ Well-attended meeting marks a step forward for the growing coalition for System Change Not Climate Change == Ecosocialist Notebook TRANSCANADA PIPELINE PLAN THREATENS DRINKING WATER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/25/pipeline-threatens-drinking-water/ Ian Angus: "Piping tar sands crude over an aquifer rated 'Highly Vulnerable' is a reckless plan that threatens the water we all need." STEPHEN HARPER POURS BITUMEN ON THE FIRE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/29/stephen-harper-pours-bitumen-fire/ Canada's prime minister won't stop until the tar sands are completely mined and burned ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 38 http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/10/01/ecosocialist-resources-38/ Recommended reading for green-lefts and left-greens: The epochal crisis; IPCC climate report; Moving tar sands oil; Making agriculture sustainable; The austerity frame 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, September 22, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, September 22, 2013 STRATEGY AND TACTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Bx Naomi Klein has sparked a furious debate amongst activists on the right and left of the North American environmental movement. Chris Williams examines the critical issues involved, and their implications for the future of the movement as a whole, and of its growing ecosocialist wing in particular. WHO REALLY BENEFITS FROM SWEATSHOPS? http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Bu Exposing the myth that 'consumer demand for low prices' causes dangerous working conditions in third world factories FRED MAGDOFF ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND CAPITALISM http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Bb Audio: The co-author of "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism" explains the root causes of today's global climate crisis + Fighting tar sands and pipelines TAR SANDS OR OIL SANDS? BEHIND THE PETRO-SPIN http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4AQ The term oil sands was invented by public relations flacks, to divert attention from just how dirty the Alberta bitumen deposits are. Andrew Nikiforuk explains why tar sands is the right name. TRANSCANADA BUYS ANOTHER FAVORABLE PIPELINE REPORT http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Bp Why no one should believe Deloitte's report on the latest tar sands pipeline plan ROBERT REDFORD CONDEMNS TAR SANDS DEVELOPMENT http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4Bl Video: Robert Redford explains why the tar sands are good for oil companies but deadly for the Earth. ANOTHER PIPELINE DISASTER: MOLASSES KILLS http://wp.me/p3S7dT-4B5 Think about this the next time someone tells you pipelines are safe ... 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, Aug 26 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, August 26, 2013 IS THE CLIMATE SICK OF US? http://wp.me/p9tW8-4kR Video: Ian Angus, interviewed in Lisbon in 2010 AN ANTIDOTE TO CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL http://wp.me/p9tW8-4ko A CounterPunch author says global warming has stopped. He's just plain wrong CORPORATE INTERESTS UNDERMINE AFRICAN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY http://wp.me/p9tW8-4kl African small farmers denounce genetically modified seeds, agro-chemicals, resource grabs and laws that prevent them from freely using, sharing or selling their seed. PRIVATIZING THE AIR, 100 YEARS AGO http://wp.me/p9tW8-4jO Carbon trading is a recent invention, but the idea that capitalists would privatize the air if they could isn't new at all. FRACKING'S FALSE PROMISE OF PLENTY http://wp.me/p9tW8-4l2 An angry book challenges claims by industry and media that fracking will meet America's energy needs --- Canada: fighting the pipelines HOW TO ANSWER TRANSCANADA'S PIPELINE SPIN http://wp.me/p9tW8-4kU These talking points, prepared by the Council of Canadians, provide clear and pointed answers to TransCanada's lies, damned lies, and pipeline promotion spin. STOP ENERGY EAST! A NEW RESOURCE FOR PIPELINE ACTIVISTS http://wp.me/p9tW8-4kJ New website documents the dangers of TransCanada's pipeline CANADA'S ENERGY REGULATOR REFUSES TO READ THIS http://wp.me/p9tW8-4jU People whose water, air and homes are endangered by Enbridge Line 9 have been refused the right to testify. We're fighting back anyway. 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
[Marxism] An unpublished talk by Barry Commoner
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Oil, energy and capitalism: An unpublished talk by Barry Commoner Dr. Barry Commoner was the best-known ecologist in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s. His picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1970, and his 1971 book, The Closing Circle, was a best-seller and remains a classic of radical environmental analysis. As this talk shows, he was also an ecosocialist, before that word was created. Commoner gave this talk at the Community Church of Boston on February 22, 1976. To our knowledge, it has not been published before http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/07/30/exclusive-an-unpublished-talk-by- barry-commoner/ - Ian Angus Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, July 22, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, July 22, 2013 WHY WE NEED AN ECOSOCIALIST REVOLUTION TEXT: http://wp.me/p9tW8-4gh VIDEO: http://wp.me/p9tW8-4gL Ian Angus at Socialism 2013: "It's not enough to say that socialism is the solution. In the 21st century, fighting capitalist ecocide must be at the heart of our vision, our program and our activity." US GREENS PROPOSE STEPS TO ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL SANITY http://wp.me/p9tW8-4hk A deep green program for saving the world and building better lives: Reduce working hours and ensure that everyone has enough work while no one is overworked, while building safer and healthier communities. INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO OF THE WOMEN OF VIA CAMPESINA http://wp.me/p9tW8-4hh We are fighting for our rights, against neo-liberalism and patriarchy, for food sovereignty with gender justice THE LAC-MÉGANTIC DISASTER: CAPITALISM KILLS http://wp.me/p9tW8-4h4 Two articles identify the root cause of Canada's worst train disaster: a system that always puts profit before people. IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUR HEADS OUT OF THE TAR SANDS http://wp.me/p9tW8-4gZ Quebec activists: Local tragedies, such as the one in Lac Megantic, must not distract from the global tragedy which threatens us all. OTTAWA ACTIVISTS LAUNCH ANTI-PIPELINE CAMPAIGN http://wp.me/p9tW8-4gA Environmentalists aim to build broad movement to block TransCanada's plan to pipe tar sands bitumen through sensitive ecosystems in Canada's capital city. ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 35 http://wp.me/p9tW8-4hv Another selection of recent articles and talks for left greens and green lefts ++ 30 years of environmental justice ++ Saving humans from capitalism ++ Imperialism and ecology ++ Misleading climate scenarios ++ Two replies to another populationist tract 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, June 17, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, June 17, 2013 POPULATION AND POVERTY: AGAINST THE GATES AGENDA http://wp.me/p9tW8-4eo Under the guise of women's rights, billionaires are promoting population control in sub-Saharan Africa BREAKING TAR SANDS RULES? REGULATOR SAYS THAT'S OKAY http://wp.me/p9tW8-4eb No tar sands company has complied with regulations to clean up tailings ponds. No problem, says the regulator. The rules are "overly optimistic" ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 33 http://wp.me/p9tW8-4eH Videos of presentations and discussions at trade union conference on Confronting the Climate Change Crisis, London, June 8, 2013 HOW CAPITALISM'S ASSAULT ON NATURE BUILT CHICAGO http://wp.me/p9tW8-4e4 Book Review: William Cronon's history of Chicago is a brilliant ecological history that puts the development of capitalism at the heart of the story 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
[Marxism] Climate &b Capitalism, May 27, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, May 27, 2013 CLIMATE COLONIALISM, ILLUSTRATED http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bO The imperial powers reap the benefits of fossil fuels, while the third world pays the price. 99% of disease caused by climate change occurs in developing countries, and 88% of that affects children under age 5. TERRACIDE: DESTROYING THE PLANET FOR PROFIT http://wp.me/p9tW8-4c0 It's the biggest crime in history. Big Oil is deliberately making Earth uninhabitable, and getting rich doing it. CLIMATE DISASTERS DISPLACED 32 MILLION PEOPLE IN 2012 http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bJ Infographic: Over 32 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by climate- and weather-related events CANADA'S SEVEN-YEAR WAR ON SCIENCE http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bH If anyone doubts the intellectual bankruptcy and anti-science bias of Canada's government, show them this THE WEALTH OF COMMONS: A WORLD BEYOND MARKET AND STATE http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bA Book review: Far from being a 'tragedy' the commons offers genuine solutions to climate change and other environmental problems NEPALESE WORKERS POISONED BY LOCAL AND GLOBAL POLLUTION http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bv Driven from their farms by climate change, brickworkers near luxurious Kathmandu are dying slowly in an air pollution disaster zone ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 31 http://wp.me/p9tW8-4c4 Recommended reading for left greens and green lefts: Capitalism and climate-change … History of Alberta oil spills … EDF is wrong on fracking … The truth about the anti-wind power movement … U.S. groundwater losses 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, May 20, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, May 20, 2013 VIDEO: OIL SANDS REALITY CHECK http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bq An important new resource for tar sands campaigners TO SAVE THE EARTH, NATIONALIZE THE ENERGY INDUSTRY http://wp.me/p9tW8-4bh Simon Butler: Energy is far too important to our future to be left in the hands of corporate directors and investment bankers. THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: NEOLIBERALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLITICS http://wp.me/p9tW8-4be Book review: Why individual action and lifestyle politics offer no solutions to an environmental crisis driven by global capitalism THE WORLD IS RICH. THE RICH ARE THE PROBLEM. http://wp.me/p9tW8-4b9 There's no shortage of food, no shortage of wealth to solve social crises. The problem is a system that enriches a few and starves multitudes. IS THERE A SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON GLOBAL WARMING? YOU BET! http://wp.me/p9tW8-4aV The number of scientists who disagree is "vanishingly small" 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, May 13, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, May 13, 2013 QUÉBEC ECOSOCIALISTS ADOPT BASIS FOR UNITY AND ACTION http://wp.me/p9tW8-4ar An update on the growth of the Réseau écosocialiste, and a translation of its founding statement. "Ecosocialism advocates the distribution of wealth, ecological and democratic planning, and popular sovereignty." NEEDED: AN ECOSOCIALIST COSMOVISION http://wp.me/p9tW8-4aj Chris Gilbert argues that it isn't enough to replace capitalism's destructive social and economic relations: we must develop new ways of thinking about humanity and nature. An important and provocative article: comments are encouraged! FOOD FIGHTS AGAINST AUSTERITY http://wp.me/p9tW8-4ag Disparate struggles in desperate times. Mark Bergfield describes how workers and farmers in Spain, New York and Greece are challenging neoliberal austerity MORE VIDEOS FROM NYC ECOSOCIALISM CONFERENCE http://wp.me/p9tW8-4aM Seven more videos of talks at the Ecosocialism conference in New York City, April 20, are online now. CLIMATE CONFERENCES SET IN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA http://wp.me/p9tW8-4ac On opposite sides of the world, two important activist conferences 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
Re: [Marxism] Fans of eugenics
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect panix.com> writes: > Keynes was director of the British Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944. > He described eugenics as “the most important, significant and… genuine > branch of sociology that exists”. He believed overpopulation was causing > “mighty problems” for humankind and he saw eugenics as one possible way > of resolving these alleged problems. > > http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100215768/it-wasnt-keynes- homosexuality-that-made-him-cavalier-about-future-generations-it-was-his- eugenicism/ This might well be true ... but the source is the execrable Brendan O'Neill of Spiked Online. If he wrote that the sun was coming up in the morning, I'd insist on checking. Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, May 6, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, May 6, 2013 ONLINE NOW: TALKS AT NYC ECOSOCIALISM CONFERENCE http://wp.me/p9tW8-49R Unable to attend this important conference? Listen to these talks and workshops online: ++ Race, Gender & Environmental Justice ++ The Fight for Indigenous Rights ++ Lessons from Super-Storm Sandy ++ Free of Tar Sands, Free of Fracking ++ Fossil Fuel Divestment: Student Power and Climate Justice ++ Carbon Taxes & Market Approaches: Can Capitalism Be Sustainable? ++ Both Red & Green: a History of the Green Left WHY UNIONISTS MUST BUILD THE CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT http://wp.me/p9tW8-49E Local union leader calls for thousands of union members in their union hats and coats and shirts, banners and flags flying, at every demonstration to save the climate TAR SANDS REGULATION: ALBERTA PUTS A FOX IN CHARGE OF THE HENHOUSE http://wp.me/p9tW8-49A Oil company lobbyist named chair of Energy Regulator; Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation demands resignation CLIMATE INACTION, ILLUSTRATED http://wp.me/p9tW8-49v When in doubt, mumble ... FRACKING WASTE IS TOO TOXIC FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE DUMP http://wp.me/p9tW8-49t On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous. 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 29, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What's new, April 29, 2013 PABLO SOLON ON THE FUTURE OF THE CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT http://wp.me/p9tW8-49i "When we speak about climate justice we are not speaking about something that's going to be decided in the UN, but something we have to fight for, now, in our daily struggles." ECOSOCIALIST CONFERENCE SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR A UNITED GREEN LEFT IN NORTH AMERICA http://wp.me/p9tW8-48K "A resounding success!" Participants report on a major step forward for anti-capitalist organizing in the environmental movement. TO RECLAIM OUR FUTURE, WE MUST CHANGE THE PRESENT! A PROGRAM FOR CHANGING THE SYSTEM, NOT THE CLIMATE http://wp.me/p9tW8-48z "We will not allow the capitalist system to burn us all. We will take action and address the root causes of climate change by changing the system." WHAT BP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2010 GULF SPILL http://wp.me/p9tW8-48v An anonymous whistleblower has provided evidence that BP was warned in advance about the safety risks of attempting to cover up its leaking oil. IN U.S., COPS HOLD BACK HUNGRY PEOPLE AS FOOD DUMPED http://wp.me/p9tW8-48q In the world's richest country, banks destroy good food while children go hungry CANADIAN FARMERS UNION: WHY WE SUPPORT IDLE NO MORE http://wp.me/p9tW8-46Y "The common ground that Idle No More and the NFU share is literal; our common ground is the land." JAMES HANSEN: KEYSTONE XL IS A PIPELINE TO DISASTER http://wp.me/p9tW8-47E The pipeline apologists contradict the laws of physics and economics. There are no more mixed messages, just catastrophe after catastrophe. 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism - Recent Book Reviews
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com RECENT BOOK REVIEWS The following are some of the titles in our recently expanded book reviews section. NO LOCAL: WHY SMALL-SCALE ALTERNATIVES WON’T CHANGE THE WORLD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/04/02/why-small-scale-alternatives-wont-change-the-world/ CATASTROPHISM: THE APOCALYPTIC POLITICS OF COLLAPSE AND REBIRTH http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/03/27/catastrophism-book/ EXTRACT: THE PIPELINE WARS: VOL. 1 ENBRIDGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/03/26/inside-the-b-c-pipeline-wars/ LATIN AMERICA’S TURBULENT TRANSITIONS: THE FUTURE OF TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY SOCIALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/03/11/latin-americas-turbulent-transitions/ CLASS DYNAMICS OF AGRARIAN CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/03/11/class-dynamics-of-agrarian-change/ GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE NEED FOR AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD SYSTEM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/03/05/global-capitalism-and-climate-change/ 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
[Marxism] Another response to 'Catastrophism' book
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My response to Eddie Yuen's essay in the new book 'Catastrophism': ‘Catastrophism’ book on environmental movement: a prescription for abstention and defeat http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/03/27/catastrophism-book/ Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Advice needed - Book on Gramsci
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I've been asked to suggest a good book on Gramsci's views. Something more than a primer, but not an academic tome. Any suggestions? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, March 25, 2013
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, March 25, 2013 Feature articles MARXISM AS IF THE PLANET MATTERS http://wp.me/p9tW8-45l If Marxism is to live up to its own maxim as a theory to not merely interpret the world but to change it, then it must include strong ecological theory and practice. IDLE NO MORE AND DEFENDERS OF THE LAND CALL PROTESTS FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS http://wp.me/p9tW8-44M “We know it will take a lot more to defeat Harper and the corporate agenda. But against the power of their money and weapons, we have the power of our bodies and spirits. There is nothing that can match the power of peaceful, collective action in the defense of people and Mother Earth.” Ecosocialist Notebook THE HOCKEY STICK IS REAL, AND IT’S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT http://wp.me/p9tW8-45P Global temperatures are rising faster than at any time in 11,000 years ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 27 http://wp.me/p9tW8-45e Aboriginal groups will block pipelines; Can climate change be reversed?; Chomsky on capitalism vs civilization; Two souls of socialism?; Global food policy report B.C. OIL SPILL RESPONSE SHIP RUNS AGROUND http://wp.me/p9tW8-457 If they can't get it to a news conference, how will it protect the coast from oil? 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
Re: [Marxism] Source wanted: New world in shell of old
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I asked: > The phrase "build a new world in the shell of the old" > appears very frequently in anarchist writing. > Can anyone tell me where it originated? Some helpful Marxmail readers have pointed me to the Preamble of the IWW Constitution, which said: "The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old." Unless someone has an earlier reference, that's almost certainly the origin of the phrase. I find it interesting that the wobblies used the phrase differently than today's anarchists do. The IWW viewed the structure of their organization as the structure of the future workers' government -- based on industry and class, organized through workplaces rather than on geography. Modern anarchists change the words slightly -- "build a new world in the shell of the old," rather than "forming the structure ..." And they generally interpret it to mean something like "the means must be consistent with the ends" -- that people in the movement today must behave as we expect everyone to behave in a future society. The same or similar words are sometimes used by Black Bloc types to justify their tactics -- in a future anarchist society there will be no restrictions on my behavior, so I'm acting today as if there were no restrictions, and no one can tell me not to. Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] RSS Feeder advice?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can anyone suggest a good, straightforward RSS Feed Reader? Text only preferred. I don't want bells and whistles, touch screens or fancy visual displays. Just the ability to track several hundred blogs and news sources painlessly. Reason: Google is terminating Google Reader -- one of my most-used apps, on July 1. Damn. Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Article Request
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm repeating this request since no one responded last time, perhaps because I made an error in the book title. If anyone has access to this book: "Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the new world order" edited by A. Callari et all I would greatly appreciate it if you could scan one article and email it to me: "Under the Falling Sky: Apocalyptic Evironmentalism and the Production of Nature" by Cindi Katz pages 276-283 Many thanks ... Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Article Request - "Under the Falling Sky"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm hoping that someone on Marxmail can send me a copy of this essay: "Under the Falling Sky: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and the Production of Nature" by Cindi Katz It was published in 1995 in the book "Marxism in the Postmodern World" edited by Antonio Callari and Stephen Cullenberg. It begins on page 276. Assistance much appreciated ... Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Washington: 50,000 protest Keystone XL pipeline
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Now on Climate & Capitalism: Video report on the demonstration from Democracy Now Plus: Most Canadian media try to downplay the largest U.S. climate march ever http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/02/18/5-protest-against-the-keystone-xl\ -pipeline/ 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
Re: [Marxism] Is Growth Over?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hans wrote ... >Here is an example of a recent prediction of doom, one of >many. I found it odd that nobody on the Marxism list >brought it up: >http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/01/experts-fear-collapse-of-global-civilisation/ >Inter Press Service January 14, 2013 >Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation The "experts" who wrote the article that the IPS article is based on are Paul and Anne Ehrlich. They have been predicting imminent doom at least since they wrote "The Population Bomb" in 1968 -- and they've done the same in hundreds of similar articles and books since. Their 2013 text is more carefully worded than their 45-year-old bestseller, but it boils down to the same claim: that the primary cause of all human problems is overpopulation. They now add references to "overconsumption," but for them that only means bad behaviour by individuals, not the waste and destruction that is inherent in capitalism. Marxists do need to analyse and understand the issues posed by capitalist misuse and abuse of the earth, but the Ehrlichs and their ilk are not a good guide to the problems or the solutions. A good place to start would be Fred Magdoff's article in the current Monthly Review, "Global Resource Depletion: Is Population the Problem?" <http://monthlyreview.org/2013/01/01/global-resource-depletion> Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com 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
[Marxism] Geopolitics of the Amazon
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Now available as a free PDF pamphlet from Climate & Capitalism A full English translation of "Geopolitics of the Amazon: Landlord Hereditary Power and Capitalist Accumulation," by Álvaro García Linera, vice-president of Bolivia and one of Latin America’s leading Marxist intellectuals. This important book-length essay responds to criticisms from left critics who have attacked the Morales government for what they call ‘extractivism,’ and examines the real issues in the debate over plans to complete a highway in the TIPNIS region. http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/01/13/geopolitics-of-the-amazon/ Ian Angus 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
Re: [Marxism] question re Vandana Shiva
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Andrew ... I was about to reply to your message when I saw Michael K's comment. He makes the points I meant to make, and does so very well. Vandana Shiva is not a Marxist, but she is an effective and often profound critic of neoliberalism and neocolonialism. Even when I think she's wrong, I always find her worth reading. As you say, Climate & Capitalism has published a number of articles by her -- not because we agree with everything she says, but because she is an authentic and powerful voice of Third World opposition of capitalist ecocide. Ian Angus 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
Re: [Marxism] Schoolmarm grammar
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Smith smithbowen.net> writes: > I never heard any other preterite for 'shit' than 'shat', which is > good Anglo-Saxon. Are there really people who say 'shitted'? Why, > for Grimm's sake? Living in North America, I've never heard "shat" except as a joke. And I've never heard "shitted" at all. In my experience (not, I realize, always the best guide) the commonly used preterite of "shit" is "shit." Similar to "hit." I shit today. I shit yesterday. Using anything else will earn you odd looks. Ian Angus 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
Re: [Marxism] Marx Engels Collected Works Index?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause gmail.com> writes: > If it is, it's probably redundant after the entire collection was > digitized. I can't recall offhand whether its Alexander Street Press > or Proquest that's doing the project. > Oh joy. Another essential resource that is only available through academic libraries that deny access to the great unwashed. Ian 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
[Marxism] Marx Engels Collected Works Index?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some years ago, I read that International Publishers was planning to publish a standalone Subject Index to the 50 volumes of the Marx-Engels Collected Works in English. Does anyone know know if that project is still alive? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, August 27, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, August 27, 2012 + Feature articles IRAQ: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED FOR BIG OIL? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/23/iraq-mission-accomplished-for-big-oil/ Greg Muttitt: How the American invasion and occupation of Iraq paved the way for Big Oil’s rise — and now for its possible fall. LEAVE THE TAR SAND IN THE GROUND! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/22/leave-the-tar-sand-in-the-ground/ Ian Angus: There is no such thing as 'responsible upgrading' or 'sustainable tar sand production.' We must stop this crime before it ruins more lives and destroys the climate. NEOLIBERALS ON BIKES http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/21/neoliberals-on-bikes/ Elizabeth Humphrys: Unless Greens come to grips with fundamental economic questions, they will continue to promote policies that are supremely unsuited to their ultimate aim of a more just and sustainable world. THE GREEN ECONOMY (NOT!): CAPITALISM’S FINAL FRONTIER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/23/the-green-economy-not-capitalisms-final-frontier/ Jody Boehnert: The ‘Green Economy’ treats the economy as more important than the ecological system on which the economy depends. Nature is redefined as ‘natural capital’ as a prelude to more intense exploitation. News from the frontlines STILL NO CLEANUP OF MOHAWK LAND POISONED BY GM AND ALCOA http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/22/mohawk-land-poisoned-by-gm-alco/ “It’s just another form of genocide. When it comes to Indians, they don’t give a shit. All they like to do is take, take, take, and destroy.” TOXIC SPILL POISONS PERUVIAN VILLAGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/20/toxic-spill-devastates-peruvia-community/ On July 25, 45 tonnes of copper concentrate slurry spilled from a pipeline into Santa Rosa de Cajacuy, dousing the village with a witch's brew of toxic dust and sludge. ++ Editor’s Notebook MAKING A KILLING FROM HUNGER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/23/making-a-killing-from-hunger/ 21st Century Barbarism is driven by men in suits RECOMMENDED READING, 6 http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/22/recommended-reading-6/ U.S. wastes 40% of food ... Keystone and tar sands ... Vandana Shiva on seeds ... James Hansen on the cause of extreme weather ... Misleading CO2 reductions CLASS STRUGGLE FROM ABOVE, ILLUSTRATED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/20/class-struggl-illustrated/ Making more by paying less LE MYTHE DE LA SOUVERAINETÉ DU CONSOMMATEUR http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/22/le-mythe-de-la-souverainete-du-consommateur/ The Swiss ecosocialist journal A l'encontre (La Breche) translates Chapter 11 of Too Many People? 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism. August 13, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, August 13, 2012 + Feature articles CHINA FACES MASSIVE POLLUTION CHALLENGE http://wp.me/p2hhYl-3oy Despite having the world's strongest environmental laws, China faces huge increases in air and water pollution, driven by profit-focused industrial growth. CANADA’S EMISSIONS DECEPTION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/08/canadas-emissions-deception/ A new report from Ottawa claims Canada is reducing emissions, but there is much less here than meets the eye. The feds have lowered their targets and changed the reporting rules, and are claiming credit for changes that haven't been made. PHILIPPINES: URBAN POOR URGENTLY NEED AID AFTER DEVASTATING FLOOD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/08/philippines-urban-poor-urgently-need-aid-after-devastating-flood/ Massive flooding devastates Manila slums .Another painful reminder that the pain caused by climate change is being felt most by the poor and most oppressed. JAMES HANSEN: CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ARRIVED, AND IT’S WORSE THAN PREDICTED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/07/hansen-climate-change-has-arrived/ The leading U.S. climate expert says recent extreme weather events were definitely caused by climate change -- and such events will become even more frequent and more severe. + Editor’ Notebook SWISS ECOSOCIALISTS TRANSLATE C&C ARTICLES http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/12/belgian-socialists-translate-cc-articles/ "The Malthus Myth" and "What's causing the environmental crisis" now online in French RECOMMENDED READING, 4 http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/08/10/recommended-reading-4/ Ogoni protest oil inaction ... Carbon trading increases emissions ... Canada's fraudulent emissions claims ... Murray Bookchin ... Capitalism's final frontier 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, July 30, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, July 30, 2012 + Feature articles THE RETURN OF THE POPULATION BOMBERS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/20/the-return-of-the-population-bombers/ This article has triggered a vigorous debate in the Comments section, including pro-population-control arguments by Simon Ross, and replies by Betsy Hartmann and Chris Williams. Check it out, and join the conversation. FOOD PLAN WILL FEED CORPORATE HUNGER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/25/australias-national-food-plan-will-feed-corporate-hunger/ Contrary to Australian government claims, the proposed food plan is a recipe for increasing vulnerability, lack of resilience and heightened inequality in our food system. MCKIBBEN’S CLIMATE MATH IS TOO NARROW AND TOO BROAD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/24/mckibbens-climate-math-is-too-narrow-and-too-broad/ David Schwartzman says McKibben is right to point to the fossil fuel industry as an enemy, but his argument is both too narrow and too broad. He ignores the role of the U.S. military, and fails to focus his fire on the dirtiest fuels. URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO STOP TORTURE OF PAKISTAN CLIMATE CHANGE PRISONERS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/23/urgent-action-needed-to-stop-torture-of-pakistan-climate-change-prisoners/ Baba Jan and Iftikhar Hussain were held and tortured by Pakistan police, for the crime of aiding flood-stricken farmers. WE CAN’T PUT A PRICE ON NATURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/23/we-cant-put-a-price-on-nature/ The executive director of Food & Water Watch says advocates of the ‘green economy’ are promoting the same old dirty economy under a new banner + Editor’s Notebook (Comments and commentary by Ian Angus) SHOCKED AND APPALLED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/26/shocked-and-appalled/ Part of the price one pays for being an editor is having to read occasional letters from crackpots. RECOMMENDED READING, 2 http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/26/recommended-reading-2/ A continuing and highly selective listing of articles, reports, and books for green lefts and left greens VIDEO: “WHAT IS SOCIALISM?” IN 100 SECONDS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/23/video-what-is-socialism-in-100-seconds/ Participants in the July 2012 national conference of the Australian youth organization Resistance explain what socialism means to them GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/25/get-the-frack-out-of-here-2/ A fracking good song: Hydraulic fracturing, sure, it's making you a buck, While the rest of us get sick and die and you just say “tough luck.” PEOPLE LAND TRUTH: A FREE ANNIVERSARY EBOOK BY INTERCONTINENTAL CRY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/23/people-land-truth-a-free-anniversary-ebook-by-intercontinental-cry/ Essential reading on Indigenous Peoples’ front-line struggles for the defense of Mother Earth ENBRIDGE, ILLUSTRATED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/24/enbridge-illustrated/ Gas or bitumen or ... (oops!) -- 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
[Marxism] Climate & Caoitalism, July 23, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, July 23, 2012 + Feature articles THE RETURN OF THE POPULATION BOMBERS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/20/the-return-of-the-population-bombers/ Ian Angus: Overpopulation ideology undermined the environmental movement in the 1970s, diverting social protest into harmless channels. To prevent a similar setback today, we must understand populationism's conservative role, and why it is attractive to a growing number of green activists. BY LIGHT ALONE. WHAT IF CAPITALISM ELIMINATED HUNGER? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/17/by-light-alone-what-if-capitalism-eliminated-hunger/ Book Review: a science fiction novel that explores the social consequences of introducing a technological fix for hunger into a world where profit makes the rules. +++ Editor’s Notebook A JOURNALIST REVIEWS “TOO MANY PEOPLE?” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/21/reader-review-too-many-people/ Laura Kaminker posts an independent summary of our arguments against populationism PETER KENT AND ENBRIDGE, ILLUSTRATED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/20/peter-kent-and-enbridge-illustrated/ How Canada's Environment Minister earns his $230,000 salary RECOMMENDED READING, 1 http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/21/recommended-reading-1/ C&C’s continuing and highly selective guide to articles, reports, and books for green lefts and left greens 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, July 18, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s New, July 18, 2012 + Feature articles BY LIGHT ALONE. WHAT IF CAPITALISM ELIMINATED HUNGER? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/17/by-light-alone-what-if-capitalism-eliminated-hunger/ Ian Angus reviews a science fiction novel that explores the social consequences of introducing a technological fix for hunger into a world where profit makes the rules. ISRAEL’S ENVIRONMENTAL COLONIALISM AND ECO-APARTHEID http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/16/israels-environmental-colonialism-and-eco-apartheid/ Ben Lorber: By greenwashing the occupation, Israel hides its apartheid behind an environmentalist mirage, and distracts public attention not only from its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people, but from its large-scale degradation of the earth upon which these tragedies unfold. RIO+20 PROVES CAPITALISM WON’T SAVE THE PLANET http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/16/rio20-proves-capitalism-wontsave-planet/ Martin Empson: While the world's governments refused to act, 50,000 thousands trade unionists, rural workers, landless peasants and indigenous peoples demonstrated outside. They are the real hope for a mass anti-capitalist movement movement to stop environmental disaster. FUKUSHIMA: A DISASTER MANUFACTURED IN THE IMPERIAL BOARDROOMS OF CAPITAL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/11/fukushima-a-disaster-manufactured-in-the-imperial-boardrooms-of-capital/ Chris Williams: Conscious actions by the ruling elite, not natural causes, led directly to the triple nuclear meltdowns. The decisions they made were dictated by the prime directive of capitalism: there is no higher power than the God of Profit. WPD: GATES TO COERCIVE CONTRACEPTION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/11/new-gates-to-coercive-contraception-and-population/ Betsy Hartmann: On World Population Day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosts an international meeting that blames poor women for the social ills caused by the rich and powerful. Human rights activists fear this heralds a serious backslide to the bad old days of coercive contraception and population control. AN ECOSOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE FOR UK GREENS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/03/an-ecosocialist-perspective-for-uk-greens/ Sean Thompson: The political strategy of the Green Party assumes that politics just means fighting elections. This is a doomed approach. We will only win elections by building a movement, and we will never build much of a movement by simply fighting elections. +++ Editor’s Notebook CHINA MIÉVILLE ON ART AND POLITICS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/11/china-mieville-on-art-and-politics/ A Marxist science fiction writer on how we feel about the art we like or dislike, and how that relates to politics DAVID ROVICS SINGS “THE COMMONS” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/03/david-rovics-sings-the-commons-2/ This wonderful song by U.S. singer/songwriter David Rovics has been running through my head ANOTHER VIEW OF VEBLEN http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/11/another-view-of-veblen/ Michael Perelman says Thorstein Veblen has become more relevant than ever. 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, July 3, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, July 3, 2012 + Features and Reviews FORTY YEARS OF “HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/27/forty-years-of-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa/ Walter Rodney's classic study led to a veritable revolution in the teaching of African history. It remains one of the most compelling and persuasive books to emerge from the bowels of critical resistance to the exploitation of small countries. THIRST FOR POWER: HOW COAL, NUCLEAR AND GAS WASTE OUR WATER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/27/thirst-for-power/ Over half of all of the fresh, surface water withdrawn from the environment in the U.S. today is used by power companies. They take the profits, and society pays the price. BIOFUELS AND HUNGER, TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/25/biofuels-and-hunger-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/ Europe’s pro-biofuel policies are taking food from the mouths of millions of people in central America, causing severe malnutrition and increasing child mortality. WHY TODAY’S RADICALS MUST READ MARX’S DAS KAPITAL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/28/why-rreadmarxs-kapital-essential/ Marx’s great work, a huge expose of this monstrous system’s essential tendencies towards crises, is the book that every generation must rediscover. Editor’s Notebook THE VIDEO ENBRIDGE DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/26/the-video-enbridge-doesnt-want-you-to-see/ When Enbridge threatened to cancel a $5 million advertising campaign, the Vancouver Province immediately removed this satire from its website. BOOKCHIN ON BOOKCHIN: AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/02/bookchin-on-bookchin/ An appeal for support to "Bookchin on Bookchin," a documentary on the life and ideas of a legendary political thinker, philosopher, anarchist and environmental activist. OVERPOPULATION THEORY, ILLUSTRATED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/07/02/overpopulation-theory-illustrated/ There are definitely too many other people. CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION, ILLUSTRATED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/25/capitalist-accumulation-illustrated/ An 1896 drawing shows “The new relationship between workers and business owners.” 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, June 25, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, June 25, 2012 + LEFTIST CRITICS OF ECUADOR SHOULD FOCUS ON REAL ENEMIES http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/18/leftist-critics-of-ecuador-should-focus-on-real-enemies/ Federico Fuentes: Until rich countries are held to account for the economic and environmental crimes they have committed, no foreign leftist has a right to denounce the Ecuadorean government led by Rafael Correa for using the country's natural wealth to meet its peoples’ needs. INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WHOM? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/18/infrastructure-for-whom/ Editor’s Notebook: World Bank and G20 megaprojects provide cheap power to giant corporations, bypassing the poor ++ Reports and Analysis from the Rio+20 Earth Summit A TALE OF TWO CONFERENCES: THE SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL CRISES OF CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/22/a-tale-of-two-conferences-the-social-and-ecological-crises-of-capitalism-2/ Chris Williams: In Mexico and Brazil, the capitalist elite discusses how to continue exploiting humans and the natural world in the service of profit, while cloaking their intentions in the benign language of growth, development and sustainability. KARI-OCA 2 DECLARATION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/19/kari-oca-2-declaration/ Indigenous Peoples Global Conference: The “Green Economy” continues the colonialism we have faced and resisted for 520 years. We cannot allow false solutions to destroy the Earth’s balance, assassinate the seasons, unleash severe weather havoc, privatize life and threaten the very survival of humanity. THIS IS NOT “THE FUTURE WE WANT” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/21/bolivian-activists-on-rio20-this-is-not-the-future-we-want/ Bolivian Climate Change Platform: All governments must reject this agreement and halt the negotiations process until concrete commitments are made to replace the neo-liberal model with one based on fair development in harmony with nature and the philosophy of Living Well (Vivir Bien) VALUE VERSUS PRICES http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/18/at-rio20-values-versus-prices/ Patrick Bond: The Rio+20 Earth Summit is devoted to advancing the 'Green Economy,' which is the environmentalism of the rich. For most people and the planet, it will be a disaster. MORE ARTICLES ON RIO+20 http://climateandcapitalism.com/category/rio20/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, June 18, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com What’s new, June 18, 2012 + Feature articles and statements NO REDD+! – DECOLONIZE THE EARTH AND THE SKY! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/17/no-redd-ecolonize-the-earth-and-the-sky/ Declaration of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+. "Under the Green Economy, even the rain, the beauty of a waterfall or a honey bee’s pollen will be reduced to a barcode price tag and sold to the highest bidder." THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL KEYNESIANISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/14/the-contradictions-of-environmental-keynesianism/ Some environmentalists hope to save the planet with state spending on green projects. But if their proposals succeed economically they will harm the environment, and if they are environmentally sound they will fail economically. IS ‘CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION’ DESTROYING THE EARTH? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/13/conspicuous-consumption-destroying-earth/ How could socialists not love a book called How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth? Unfortunately, although it is better than most recent books on ecological and social problems, its explanations don't hold water, and the solutions it proposes are just wishful thinking. +++ Editor's Notebook INTRODUCING EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/14/introducing-a-new-feature-on-climate-capitalism/ I like the redesigned Climate & Capitalism a lot, but it has had one drawback. It's great for publishing essays, news and statements, but ... HOPE TRIUMPHS OVER EXPERIENCE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/15/hope-triumphs-over-experience/ WWF and Greenpeace think the European Union's failed Emissions Trading System can be repaired. That would be fixing the unfixable. TOP 25 ARTICLES IN THE ‘NEW’ CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/11/top-25-articles-in-the-new-climate-and-capitalism/ These are the 25 most-read articles in Climate and Capitalism, in the three months since we launched our new website in cooperation with Monthly Review. +++ News from the front lines AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES OCCUPY BELO MONTE DAM SITE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/15/amazonian-communities-occupy-belo-monte-dam-site/ On the eve of the Rio+20 UN Conference, community resistance calls attention to Brazilian government's unsustainable energy policy BARRIERE LAKE ALGONQUIN ACQUITTED; LOGGING COMPANY LIES EXPOSED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/11/algonquin-activist-acquitted-after-logging-company-lies-on-stand/ Norman Matchewan of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake has been acquitted of charges related to a 2009 blockade protecting his people’s territory from illegal logging. Representatives of the logging company and the Quebec government were exposed on the stand as liars PAKISTAN: FREE THE HUNZA 5, PRISONERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/11/pakistan-free-the-hunza-5-prisoners-of-climate-change/ Baba Jan and his comrades remain in prison for the crime of supporting the victims of devastating floods. They have been tortured and their lives are in danger. Supporters are calling for a week of international solidarity with these socialist activists, June 20-27. 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, June 6, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, June 6, 2012 INDIA EXPORTS FOOD WHILE MILLIONS STARVE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/28/india-exports-food-while-millions-starve/ Profits before people … while 320 million of its people go hungry every night, India has become the world’s largest rice exporter, and is considering exporting ‘excess’ wheat as well. CANADIAN GOVERNMENT GUTTING ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/01/canadian-government-gutting-environment-protection/ “The most anti-environmental government that we've ever had, and one of the most anti-environmental governments in the world" WHY ‘LIVING SIMPLY’ ISN’T THE ANSWER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/01/why-living-simply-isnt-the-answer/ The worst environmental problems can't possibly be solved by individual consumer choices. Collective problems require collective solutions TOWARDS AN ECOSOCIALIST NETWORK http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/04/owards-an-ecosocialist-network/ New Zealand socialist argues: The left organizations born out of the sixties made great contributions, but they are no longer capable of taking Marxism forward today, in the terminal phase of capitalist development. For that, we need an Ecosocialist Network. RIO+20: AN OPPORTUNITY TO REKINDLE THE MOVEMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/01/rio20-an-opportunity-to-rekindle-the-movement/ The official meetings in Rio will avoid concrete action ... but outside those sessions, there is an important opportunity to forge essential unity between the left and serious environmentalists. ANOTHER MASSIVE OIL SPILL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/30/another-massive-oil-spill/ Why we can't trust capitalism with the fate of the earth ... 22,000 barrels spilled into sensitive muskeg, and the pipeline company didn't notice! AS EMISSIONS SOAR, ONLY RADICAL ACTION CAN STOP CATASTROPHIC HEAT RISE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/28/as-emissions-soar-only-radical-action-can-stop-catastrophic-heat-rise/ CO2 emissions rose 3.2% in 2011. The failure of climate negotiations in Bonn means global temperatures will rise at least 3.5 degrees Celsius, creating conditions not seen for 30 to 60 million years. + Other recent articles THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S TUNNEL VISION ON POPULATION AND POVERTY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/23/the-royal-societys-tunnel-vision-on-population-and-poverty/ THE PETROLEUM-POWERED PROPAGANDA MACHINE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/21/the-petroleum-powered-propaganda-machine/ WE WILL NOT LET THIS PIPELINE CROSS OUR LAND! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/20/we-will-not-let-this-pipeline-cross-our-land/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism. May 28, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ May 28, 2012 THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S TUNNEL VISION ON POPULATION AND POVERTY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/23/the-royal-societys-tunnel-vision-on-population-and-poverty/ Ian Angus says the Royal Society's People and the Planet report is rich in numbers but sadly lacking in social analysis or understanding. It doesn't explain poverty or the environmental crisis ... but it does expose the narrowness of populationist thought. G8 FOOD ALLIANCE WON’T HELP FARMERS OR END HUNGER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/24/g8-food-alliance-wont-help-farmers-or-end-hunger/ The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched at the G8 summit, is just cover for more land grabbing by Northern corporations. The business-driven initiative won't tackle hunger or support food producers in Africa. THE PETROLEUM-POWERED PROPAGANDA MACHINE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/21/the-petroleum-powered-propaganda-machine/ The corporate-funded propaganda campaign designed to hoodwink the public and prevent any concerted public action on climate change has been remarkably successful. WE WILL NOT LET THIS PIPELINE CROSS OUR LAND! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/20/we-will-not-let-this-pipeline-cross-our-land/ Wet'suwet'en people in British Columbia condemn the proposed Pacific Trail natural gas pipeline. "We will stop them at our traditional boundary lines and prevent them from proceeding with plans on our territories." THE UN’S ‘GREEN ECONOMY’ PLAN IS A DESTRUCTIVE ILLUSION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/16/the-uns-green-economy-plan-is-a-destructive-illusion/ Instead of applying market rules to Nature, we need to forge a new system We must change the capitalist system, not the Earth system. CAPITALISM’S DESTRUCTIVE QUEST FOR EXTREME ENERGY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/14/destructive-quest-fo-extreme-energy/ To keep the fuel flowing, oil companies are radically increasing the potential for environmental catastrophe. The fight against extreme energy is also a fight against the very soul of an irrational system. + Other recent articles ‘DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE’ – HOW NOT TO BUILD A MOVEMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/10/deep-green-resistance-a-path-to-certain-defeat/ REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTION, FOR HUMANITY AND THE WORLD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/04/revolutionizing-production-for-humanity-and-for-the-world/ ‘WHEN CIVILIZATIONS START TO DIE THEY GO INSANE’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/02/welcome-to-the-asylu/ WHAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS NEED TO KNOW http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/05/what-environmentalist-needs-to-know/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, May 21, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, May 21, 2012 WE WILL NOT LET THIS PIPELINE CROSS OUR LAND! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/20/we-will-not-let-this-pipeline-cross-our-land/ Wet'suwet'en people in British Columbia condemn the proposed Pacific Trail natural gas pipeline. "We will stop them at our traditional boundary lines and prevent them from proceeding with plans on our territories." GET THE SHELL OUT! INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS EXPOSE DIRTY OIL BUSINESS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/17/get-the-shell-out-indigenous-prpotes/ Representatives of four Indigenous nations will attend Shell Oil's annual meeting to demand an end to its massive human and ecological rights violations in Canada, Alaska, and Nigeria. THE UN’S ‘GREEN ECONOMY’ PLAN IS A DESTRUCTIVE ILLUSION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/16/the-uns-green-economy-plan-is-a-destructive-illusion/ Instead of applying market rules to Nature, we need to forge a new system We must change the capitalist system, not the Earth system. AUSTRALIA: 7,000 MARCH AGAINST FRACKING http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/14/australia-7000-march-against-fracking/ Video: 7,000 people took to the streets in Lismore, New South Wales, on May 12 in a colorful and outspoken action against Coal Seam Gas Mining in the Northern Rivers region. CAPITALISM’S DESTRUCTIVE QUEST FOR EXTREME ENERGY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/14/destructive-quest-fo-extreme-energy/ To keep the fuel flowing, oil companies are radically increasing the potential for environmental catastrophe. The fight against extreme energy is also a fight against the very soul of an irrational system. + Other recent articles ‘DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE’ – HOW NOT TO BUILD A MOVEMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/10/deep-green-resistance-a-path-to-certain-defeat/ REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTION, FOR HUMANITY AND THE WORLD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/04/revolutionizing-production-for-humanity-and-for-the-world/ ‘WHEN CIVILIZATIONS START TO DIE THEY GO INSANE’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/02/welcome-to-the-asylu/ WHAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS NEED TO KNOW http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/05/what-environmentalist-needs-to-know/ 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
[Marxism] Australian socialist reviews Barry Sheppard memoir
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Who or what killed the US SWP? by Peter Boyle http://links.org.au/node/2864 Peter Boyle is national co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance of Australia 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, May 14, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal Edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ New articles, May 14, 2012 BOOK REVIEW: ‘DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE’ – HOW NOT TO BUILD A MOVEMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/10/deep-green-resistance-a-path-to-certain-defeat/ Eugene V. Debs: “It is not because these tactics involve the use of force that I am opposed to them, but because they do not…." GATEWAY PIPELINE THREATENS OUR WAY OF LIFE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/08/gateway-pipeline-threatens-our-way-of-life/ >From a First Nations perspective, it doesn't matter whether we stand on the coast of B.C. or in the heart of the oil sands - our struggle is largely one and the same. We don't want our lands, our rights, or our people to be sidelined and destroyed by irresponsible development. FOOD SOVEREIGNTY HAS A WOMAN’S FACE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/08/why-food-production-has-the-face-of-a-woman/ Resolution from the First International Conference on Agro-ecology and Food Sovereignty. PEOPLES OF THE WORLD AGAINST THE COMMODIFICATION OF NATURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/08/peoples-of-the-world-against-the-commodification-of-nature/ At the United Nations RIO+20 Conference, only the interests of the large corporations will be considered so La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in June . NGOS PLAN WEB ‘BLACKOUT’ TO PROTEST CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ATTACKS ON NATURE AND DEMOCRACY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/07/canadian-ngos-condemn-government-attack-on-nature-and-democracy/ Eleven environmental organizations have announced a 'Black Out Speak Out' campaign to counter Canadian government efforts to silence opponents of its anti-nature policies +++ Other recent articles BOOK REVIEW: WHAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/05/what-environmentalist-needs-to-know/ REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTION, FOR HUMANITY AND THE WORLD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/04/revolutionizing-production-for-humanity-and-for-the-world/ URGENT APPEAL FOR BABA JAN, PRISONER OF CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/03/urgent-appeal-for-baba-jan-prisoner-of-climate-change/ ‘WHEN CIVILIZATIONS START TO DIE THEY GO INSANE’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/02/welcome-to-the-asylu/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism. May 7, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, May 7, 2012 REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTION, FOR HUMANITY AND THE WORLD http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/04/revolutionizing-production-for-humanity-and-for-the-world/ Socialism cannot just take over capitalist production and manage it better. The production process itself needs to be radically critiqued, reconceived, overthrown and transformed by the working people themselves, while still maintaining and developing a working economy. URGENT APPEAL FOR BABA JAN, PRISONER OF CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/03/urgent-appeal-for-baba-jan-prisoner-of-climate-change/ Pakistan socialist Baba Jan has been in prison since September for the ‘crime’ of helping farmers fight for compensation for flood damage. He and other prisoners have been repeatedly beaten and tortured, and are denied visitors and medical care. Join us in demanding justice for these climate activists. ‘WHEN CIVILIZATIONS START TO DIE THEY GO INSANE’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/02/welcome-to-the-asylu/ Chris Hedges on the implosion of capitalism: The quest by a bankrupt elite in the final days of empire to accumulate greater and greater wealth, as Karl Marx observed, is modern society’s version of primitive fetishism. It leads to mounting repression, increased human suffering, a collapse of infrastructure and, finally, collective death. WHAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS NEED TO KNOW http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/05/what-environmentalist-needs-to-know/ Book Review: Magdoff and Foster have written a valuable guide for people who care about the environment but don’t know what to do, and for Marxists looking to plug into environmental struggles. + Other recent articles AUSTRALIA: COUNTRY AND CITY UNITE AGAINST FRACKING http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/01/australia-country-and-city-unite-against-fracking/ VIDEO: IS REDD A REAL SOLUTION FOR DEFORESTATION? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/01/is-redd-a-real-solution-for-deforestation/ ALBERTA ELECTION: BIG OIL VERSUS BIG OIL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/30/alberta-election-big-oil-party/ 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
[Marxism] Justice for climate change prisoners in Pakistan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == URGENT APPEAL FOR BABA JAN, PRISONER OF CLIMATE CHANGE Pakistan socialist Baba Jan has been in prison since September for the ‘crime’ of helping farmers fight for compensation for flood damage. He and other prisoners have been repeatedly beaten and tortured, and are denied visitors and medical care. Join us in demanding justice for these climate activists. http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/03/urgent-appeal-for-baba-jan-prisoner-of-climate-change/ Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, May 1, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, May 1, 2012 AUSTRALIA: COUNTRY AND CITY UNITE AGAINST FRACKING http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/01/australia-country-and-city-unite-against-fracking/ The largest anti-fracking demonstration yet confronted the state government in Sydney, Australia, on May 1. As many as 10,000 rural and urban activists marched to protect land and water from the Coal Seam Gas exploiters. VIDEO: IS REDD A REAL SOLUTION FOR DEFORESTATION? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/05/01/is-redd-a-real-solution-for-deforestation/ The UN and the World Bank say that REDD will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by rewarding forest owners in the South for not cutting down trees. This new animated film shows that the reality is very different. ALBERTA ELECTION: BIG OIL VERSUS BIG OIL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/30/alberta-election-big-oil-party/ The recent Alberta election was a welcome setback for bigots and climate change deniers, but big oil won anyway. Once again, there is a majority government that is absolutely committed to a massive increase in the exploitation of the tar sands. Paul Kellogg examines what happened and why. + Other recent articles DAVE FOREMAN: DEFENDING WILDLIFE BY ATTACKING IMMIGRANTS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/25/dave-foreman-defending-wildlife-by-attacking-immigrants/ AN APPEAL TO SOME SUPPORTERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS: PLEASE STOP PROMOTING THE 7 BILLION SCARE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/23/appeal-womens-rights-stop7-billion-scare-contraception-harms-worlds-poorest-women/ VIDEO: ONE MILLION CLIMATE JOBS NOW! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/28/video-one-million-climate-jobs-now/ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 30, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, April 30, 2012 DAVE FOREMAN: DEFENDING WILDLIFE BY ATTACKING IMMIGRANTS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/25/dave-foreman-defending-wildlife-by-attacking-immigrants/ Ian Angus says Dave Foreman's new book, “Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife,” is a compendium of every anti-human (and especially anti-immigrant) argument you’ll ever hear from a self-proclaimed conservationist. AN APPEAL TO SOME SUPPORTERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS: PLEASE STOP PROMOTING THE 7 BILLION SCARE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/23/appeal-womens-rights-stop7-billion-scare-contraception-harms-worlds-poorest-women/ When you invoke the language of “overpopulation,” of “too many people,” of “can’t feed 'em, don’t breed ‘em,” you promote programs that profoundly harm women of color, poor women, indigenous women, and women in the global south. VIDEO: ONE MILLION CLIMATE JOBS NOW! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/28/video-one-million-climate-jobs-now/ The Trade Union Group of the UK Campaign against Climate Change is organizing a Climate Jobs Caravan in England and Scotland in May. This inspiring video sets out the caravan's message. BLACK TIDE: THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF THE GULF OIL SPILL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/23/black-tide-gulf-oil-spill/ Book review. A devastating indictment of the oil and drilling industry, and of the politicians and political appointees who failed to protect the people and environment of the Gulf. INDIA: TRADITIONAL TRIBAL FARMING BEATS CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/27/traditional-tribal-farming-beats-climate-change/ In an Indian village ravaged by climate change, some small farmers are prospering by returning to traditional farming methods such as mixed cropping, the use of organic fertilisers and trusted seed varieties. AUSTRALIA’S FAKE DEBATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/26/australias-fake-debate-on-climate-change/ Neither party -- the climate deniers or the climate pretenders -- proposes effective action against greenhouse gas emissions. Both promote more coal. To see why, just follow the money. SHELL OIL SPILL IN NIGERIA: AT LEAST 60 TIMES BIGGER THAN CLAIMED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/25/shell-oil-spill-in-nigeria-at-least-60-times-greater-than-claimed/ Shell admits spilling 260,000 litres of oil in Bodo, Nigeria, in 2008, but independent experts say it was at least 7.8 million litres, and possibly over 49 million. After three years, Shell has not cleaned up the oil or paid compensation. == Recent features: IF GROWTH IS THE PROBLEM, WHY HASN’T IT BEEN STOPPED? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/10/if-growth-is-the-problem/ THE FOUR LAWS OF ECOLOGY AND THE FOUR ANTI-ECOLOGICAL LAWS OF CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/02/four-laws/ LIBERALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A REMEDIAL ASSESSMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/05/liberalism-and-climate-change-a-remedial-assessment/ FROM THE APRIL MONTHLY REVIEW … http://monthlyreview.org/ “As part of the development of what will eventually be called MRonline we recently invited Ian Angus, founder and editor of the important Climate & Capitalism blog to join forces with us and to locate Climate and Capitalism on the MR website, with himself as editor. We are happy to announce that he agreed and the blog can be found on both the MR website and climateandcapitalism.com.“ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 16, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, April 16, 2012 EMPOWER FARMERS TO FIGHT SUB-SAHARAN DROUGHT! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/18/empowered-farmers-can-lead-the-fight-against-sub-saharan-drought/ Tens of thousands will die in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa unless action is taken to counter the impact of climate change. Peasant farmers have the knowledge and skills needed to combat drought: empowering them to act is the key to stopping famine. CDM: BAD FOR AFRICA, NO SOLUTION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/18/cdmfails-in-africa/ A new study shows that carbon trading and the so-called ‘Clean Development Mechanism’ not only won’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are damaging the communities, workers and local environments that are most affected by climate change. Across Africa, grassroots movements are fighting the CDM assault. BRAZIL: JUDGE RULES TELES PIRES DAM VIOLATES INDIGENOUS RIGHTS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/16/brazil-teles-pires-dam-violates-indigenous-rights/ A judge in Brazil has suspended construction of the Teles Pires dam in the Amazon, citing violations of the rights of the indigenous peoples whose livelihoods are seriously threatened by the project. HOW CAN WE BUILD THE MOVEMENT TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/20/how-can-we-build-the-movement-to-stop-climate-change/ Australian climate activist Ben Courtice outlines the state of the climate crisis, official responses, and public awareness, and proposes steps to build an effective mass movement to cut greenhouse gas emissions BP’S GULF DISASTER IS STILL DESTROYING HUMAN LIVES http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/19/bp-gulf-oil-spill-still-destroying-lives/ The Gulf oil spill is responsible for the worst public health tragedies investigated by the Government Accountability Project in its 35 years of operation. It will take years to determine the actual number of affected people. == Recent features: IF GROWTH IS THE PROBLEM, WHY HASN’T IT BEEN STOPPED? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/10/if-growth-is-the-problem/ CUBA PREPARES FOR RISING SEA LEVELS AND EXTREME WEATHER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/14/cuba-prepares-for-rising-sea-levels-and-extreme-weather/ THE FOUR LAWS OF ECOLOGY AND THE FOUR ANTI-ECOLOGICAL LAWS OF CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/02/four-laws/ FROM THE APRIL MONTHLY REVIEW … http://monthlyreview.org/ “As part of the development of what will eventually be called MRonline we recently invited Ian Angus, founder and editor of the important Climate & Capitalism blog to join forces with us and to locate Climate and Capitalism on the MR website, with himself as editor. We are happy to announce that he agreed and the blog can be found on both the MR website and climateandcapitalism.com.“ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 16, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An ecosocialist journal, edited by Ian Angus http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, April 16, 2012 IF GROWTH IS THE PROBLEM, WHY HASN’T IT BEEN STOPPED? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/10/if-growth-is-the-problem/ Why, in the face of massive evidence that the constant expansion of production and resource-extraction is killing us, do governments and corporations keep shoveling coal for the runaway growth train? Ian Angus introduces Gareth Dale's critique of the "the growth paradigm." CUBA PREPARES FOR RISING SEA LEVELS AND EXTREME WEATHER http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/14/cuba-prepares-for-rising-sea-levels-and-extreme-weather/ Island nations face major threats from rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather events. Cuba is moving to protect hundreds of shoreline and inland communities, and is offering to help other Caribbean countries to prepare for and adapt to climate change. OVER 15,000 TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN IN WARMEST U.S. MARCH http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/11/u-s-records-warmest-march/ U.S. government scientists say that record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record, a record that dates back to 1895. ALBERTA’S KILLING FIELDS: SCAPEGOATING WOLVES FOR TAR SANDS DESTRUCTION http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/11/albertas-killing-fields-scapegoating-wolves-for-tar-sands-damage/ Over the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves, to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on woodland caribou THE FOUR LAWS OF ECOLOGY AND THE FOUR ANTI-ECOLOGICAL LAWS OF CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/02/four-laws/ by John Bellamy Foster. The growing conflict between ecology and capitalism reflects the startling degree to which profit-making has become the primary and most powerful connection between human beings and between human beings and nature. STEPHEN HARPER AS CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/14/if-stephen-harper-had-been-captain-of-the-titanic/ Cartoon ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES http://climateandcapitalism.com/articles-reports/ New additions to our listing of important articles and reports ++ Heiltsuk leader addresses Canada’s National Energy Board (Video) ++ Bad credit: How pollution trading fails the environment ++ 99 Percent Spring: the latest front for the Democratic Party ++ Justice for Forests: Combating illegal logging FROM THE APRIL MONTHLY REVIEW … http://monthlyreview.org/ “As part of the development of what will eventually be called MRonline we recently invited Ian Angus, founder and editor of the important Climate & Capitalism blog to join forces with us and to locate Climate and Capitalism on the MR website, with himself as editor. We are happy to announce that he agreed and the blog can be found on both the MR website and climateandcapitalism.com.“ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 9, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, April 9, 2012 Analysis and Theory THE FOUR LAWS OF ECOLOGY AND THE FOUR ANTI-ECOLOGICAL LAWS OF CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/02/four-laws/ by John Bellamy Foster. The ever-growing conflict between ecology and capitalism reflects the startling degree to which profit-making has become the primary and most powerful connection between human beings and between human beings and nature. LIBERALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A REMEDIAL ASSESSMENT http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/05/liberalism-and-climate-change-a-remedial-assessment/ by Andrew Loewen. Whatever the slipperiness of its meaning, usage, or connotation over time, liberalism is and has always been, at bottom, a defence of capitalism. If we are serious about addressing climate change, it is long past time to move forward beyond liberalism and beyond social democracy. ERIC HOBSBAWM: THE MYTH OF “RESPONSIBLE CAPITALISM” http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/08/eric-hobsbawm-the-myth-of-responsible-capitalism/ Video interview with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. Can capitalism change its stripes? === Protests and Resistance BELLA BELLA: PEACEFUL PROTEST UNNERVES TAR SANDS REGULATORS; YOUTH LAUNCH HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST PIPELINE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/05/bella-bella-peaceful-protest-unnerves-regulators-youth-launch-hunger-strike-against-tar-sands-pipeline/ Video of Bella Bella residents' welcome to the government's pipeline review panel, and an eyewitness report on the protest and the regulators' cowardly response. LAKOTAS LAUNCH HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST TAR SANDS PIPELINES http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/04/lakotas-launch-hunger-strike-against-tar-sands-pipelines/ Members of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota have launched a 48-hour hunger strike against the Keystone and Gateway pipelines, in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia ONTARIO: INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TURNS BACK MINING ASSAULT ON SOVEREIGNTY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/02/ontario-indigenous-resistance-turns-back-mining-assault-on-sovereignty/ Firm resistance by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has forced the Ontario government to buy out mining leases, preventing another assault on Indigenous rights and lands “WE ARE THE ONE PERCENT!” COPS EVICT ‘POLLUTERS’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/01/we-are-the-1-cops-evict-polluters/ Video: On March 24, mock corporate representatives erected an illegal occupation -- and the NYPD forces that usually defend the interests of the 1% had to evict the "corporate polluters" from UN grounds === Book Reviews DIRTY MONEY: THE TRUE COST OF AUSTRALIA’S MINERAL BOOM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/01/dirty-money-the-true-cost-of-australias-mineral-boom/ CANADIAN DIMENSION REVIEWS ‘TOO MANY PEOPLE?’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/01/canadian-dimension-review-of-too-many-people/ == Science ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSING DROUGHTS, FLOODS, AND HEAT WAVES OUTSIDE THE NORTH http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/04/arctic-climate-change-causing-droughts-floods-and-heat-waves-outside-the-north/ === Columns ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES http://wp.me/p2hhYl-2pw Updated weekly: C&C recommends articles, videos and websites FROM THE APRIL MONTHLY REVIEW … http://monthlyreview.org/ “As part of the development of what will eventually be called MRonline we recently invited Ian Angus, founder and editor of the important Climate & Capitalism blog to join forces with us and to locate Climate and Capitalism on the MR website, with himself as editor. We are happy to announce that he agreed and the blog can be found on both the MR website and climateandcapitalism.com.“ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 2, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ What’s new, April 2, 2012 === Feature Articles SAVING RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A MODEST PROPOSAL http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/29/a-modest-proposal/ by Fred Magdoff. If population growth is causing the environmental crisis, here's a simple 3-step solution that would actually work ... RIOTS AND ROLE MODELS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/29/riots-role-models-and-consumerism/ by Matt Carr. A UK government report blames last year's riots on the participants' "materialism and consumerism." They couldn't possibly have learned such anti-social values from Britain's ruling class. Could they? ON THE ORIGINS OF GREEN LIBERALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/27/the-origins-of-green-liberalism/ by Ted Steinberg. How did the strange idea that individual actions and capitalist markets can save the world become the dominant ideology of mainstream environmentalism? OCCUPY CLIMATE CHANGE! http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/29/occupy-climate-change/ by Jeremy Brecher. Occupy Wall Street is calling for a month of action leading up to Earth Day on April 22, to draw the Occupy movements further into the struggle to protect the climate, and to show the connections between the power of the 1% and the destruction of the planet === Quotes and Insights GEORGE NOVACK: THE MISSION OF HUMANKIND http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/28/george-novack-socialist-humanism/ MICHAEL LEBOWITZ: IN THE BEGINNING IS THE DREAM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/28/michael-lebowitz-in-the-beginning-is-the-dream/ === Book Reviews NO RAIN IN THE AMAZON http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/26/no-rain-in-the-amazon/ === Columns ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES http://wp.me/p2hhYl-2pw Updated weekly: C&C recommends articles, videos and websites FROM THE APRIL MONTHLY REVIEW … http://monthlyreview.org/ “As part of the development of what will eventually be called MRonline we recently invited Ian Angus, founder and editor of the important Climate & Capitalism blog to join forces with us and to locate Climate and Capitalism on the MR website, with himself as editor. We are happy to announce that he agreed and the blog can be found on both the MR website and climateandcapitalism.com.“ 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, March 26, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ March 26, 2012 New articles this week … CAN CAPITALISM COPE WITH THE END OF GROWTH? http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/22/can-capitalism-cope-with-the-end-of-growth/ Book review. Richard Heinberg shows that if business as usual continues, life in a degrowth economy will be painful for everyone but the very rich, but he stops short of calling for radical system change. GREEN ENERGY WON’T SAVE THE EARTH WITHOUT SOCIAL CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/21/green-energy-alone-wont-save-the-earth/ The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But will that work? OCEAN DAMAGE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE WILL COST $2 TRILLION A YEAR http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/21/ocean-damage-2-trillion/ Some things are too valuable to be assigned meaningful prices. Rather than asking the impossible question of what the ocean itself is worth, a new study asks what ocean-related costs could be avoided by rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions. ROBERT BIEL: IMPERIALISM AND ECOCIDE http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/20/robert-biel-imperialism-and-ecocide/ If capitalism had been established in one small society in a small area it would consume itself in its unsustainability and cease to exist. But it is inherently global, and this is the problem. TRUTHOUT REVIEW: TOO MANY PEOPLE? |IS ‘SANE, CLEAR, AND FORTHRIGHT’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/19/truthout-review-too-many-people/ Feminist writer Eleanor J. Bader says new book by Ian Angus and Simon Butler is "a clear and convincing challenge to the idea of population control as political necessity" ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES http://wp.me/p2hhYl-2pw Updated weekly: C&C recommends articles, videos and websites CHECK OUT OUR NEW LOOK … http://climateandcapitalism.com/ Climate & Capitalism has been upgraded and completely redesigned. The transformation is part of our new partnership with Monthly Review. 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, March 19, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ March 19, 2012 CHECK OUT OUR NEW LOOK … http://climateandcapitalism.com/ Climate & Capitalism has been upgraded and completely redesigned. The transformation is part of our new partnership with Monthly Review. New articles this week … CANADA UNDERMINES THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER AT WORLD WATER FORUM http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/17/canada-undermines-the-human-right-to-water-at-world-water-forum/ At the 6th World Water Forum, Canada's government successfully undermined the UN-recognized human right to water, and supported efforts by multinational water corporations to promote the privatization of water CARBON BLOOD MONEY IN HONDURAS http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/13/carbon-blood-money-in-honduras/ A bloody struggle in Central America shows how UN-approved schemes supposedly designed to offset carbon emissions can destroy lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries. THE TRUE COST OF DIRTY OIL: WHY CANADA’S TAR SANDS PROJECTS MUST BE STOPPED http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/15/why-canadas-tar-sands-projects-must-be-stopped/ Video: What does massive environmental devastation look like? In this powerful and moving presentation, photographer Garth Lenz shows the world's largest and most destructive industrial project and shares his stunning photos of the ecosystems and human communities that are under attack... GRIM NEWS FROM CAPE GRIM: AUSTRALIAN TEMPERATURES RISING FAST http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/16/grim-news-from-cape-grim/ Report projects an average temperature rise in Australia of 1 to 5°C by 2070, long-term drying over southern and eastern Australia and an increase in extreme weather events such as severe floods, droughts and extreme cyclones. PAULO FREIRE: THE ‘GENEROSITY’ OF THE OPPRESSORS IS NOURISHED BY DEATH, DESPAIR, AND POVERTY http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/03/16/paulo-freire-the-generosity-of-the-oppressors-is-nourished-by-death-despair-and-poverty/ True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. Updated weekly: GREEN LEFT RESOURCES Articles, videos and more from around the web … http://wp.me/p2hhYl-2pw 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
[Marxism] NEW Climate & Capitalism website launched
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == IT'S HERE! After weeks of work and testing, the upgraded and completely redesigned Climate & Capitalism website is now on line. Many thanks to our friends at Monthly Review, especially webmaster Jamil, for making this possible Please check it out and pass the word ... Comments, suggestions, corrections and even criticisms are always welcome. http://climateandcapitalism.com/ Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com -- 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, March 5, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ March 5, 2012 Online now …. BOOK REVIEW: GREEN WASHED: WHY WE CAN’T BUY OUR WAY TO A GREEN PLANET http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6769 A powerful critique of green shopping that falls short on solutions MINING BOOM ACCELERATES LAND GRABBING AND ECOSYSTEM DESTRUCTION http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6758 “This trend is now a major driver of land grabbing globally, and poses a significant threat to the world’s indigenous communities, farmers and local food production systems, as well as to precious water, forests, biodiversity, critical ecosystems and climate change.” MALAYSIA: LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST CONDEMNS TOXIC REFINERY PLANS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6751 “The message is clear. The people have spoken up… The people do not want the Lynas Project in Malaysia” FUKUSHIMA DISASTER WAS CAUSED BY JAPAN’S NUCLEAR AUTHORITIES, NOT THE TSUNAMI http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6746 “This disaster was predictable and predicted, but happened because of the age-old story of cutting corners to protect profits over people” DVD NOW AVAILABLE: “A DARKER SHADE OF GREEN: REDD ALERT AND THE FUTURE OF FORESTS” http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6740 Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition announce the release of the DVD of ”A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests.” NATURAL GAS: ANOTHER MAGIC BULLET THAT WON’T STOP CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6738 “If you take 40 years to switch over entirely to natural gas, you won’t see any substantial decrease in global temperatures for up to 250 years. There’s almost no climate value in doing it.” NO TIME TO WASTE ON TRANSITION TO GREEN ENERGY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6734 Even if we convert totally tomorrow, it would be decades before the transition from coal-based power brings temperature benefits. We have delayed too long already and it is time to get started. +++ TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Order today at your favorite bookseller, or from ++Haymarket Books http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People ++Ecosocialist Bookstore http://astore.amazon.com/climaandcapit-20 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, February 26, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ February 26, 2012 New articles … VIA CAMPESINA CALL TO ACTION – RIO +20 AND BEYOND La Vía Campesina will mobilize for this historical moment, representing the voice of the millions of peasants and indigenous globally who are defending the well-being of all by implementing food sovereignty and the protection of natural resources. http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6721 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CALL FOR A PERMANENT PEOPLES’ ASSEMBLY, RIO 2012 For our rights and the rights of nature, against the commodification of life and the greenwashing of capitalism … Mobilize together towards Río+20 and beyond http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6718 CANADA: SECRET GOVERNMENT MEMO WARNS TAR SANDS DAMAGE MAY BE IRREVERSIBLE Over the coming decade, emissions growth from the Alberta tar sands is projected to be greater than all other Canadian economic sectors combined http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6705 GET POLITICAL! OCCUPY ACTIVISTS URGED TO STUDY AND LEARN FROM REVOLUTIONARY GIANTS Luxemburg, Trotsky and Lenin were among the most perceptive and compelling revolutionaries of the 20th century. Critically engaging with their ideas can enrich today’s struggles for a better world. http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6691 GLOBAL ICE LOSS: 500 BILLION TONS A YEAR Between 2003 and 2010, the ice mass lost from Greenland, Antarctica and Earth’s glaciers and ice caps was enough cover the United States 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) deep. http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6682 WHY CORPORATE FAT CATS LOVE ‘ETHICAL CONSUMERISM’ … and five reasons why voting and shopping are not the same thing http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6678 OIL EXEC’S SON EXPLAINS WHY THE NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE MUST BE STOPPED “It’s time to create resilient, sustainable and flourishing communities, that have the adaptive capacity to respond to any challenges they may face in their external environment – and be able to effectively respond specifically to the coming age of peak oil, climate change and rampant global economic instability.” http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6675 TORONTO MEETING CHALLENGES CANADA’S TAR SANDS CRIMINALS Actions against tar sands and pipelines are an opportunity to revitalize the movement to stop climate change http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6672 +++ TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Order today at your favorite bookseller, or from ++Haymarket Books http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People ++Ecosocialist Bookstore http://astore.amazon.com/climaandcapit-20 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
[Marxism] Wanted - Critiques of "Constant Battles" and "Arrogance of Humanism"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am looking for critical reviews of or responses to two books: "Constant Battles: the myth of the peaceful, noble savage" by Stephen LeBlanc "The Arrogance of Humanism" by David Ehrenfeld Obviously I'd prefer Marxist critiques, but any serious review of either book would be useful. Can anyone help? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, Feb. 21 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ February 21, 2012 New articles … ANNOUNCEMENT: CLIMATE & CAPITALISM AND MONTHLY REVIEW http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6615 Climate and Capitalism is five years old this month. I’m excited to mark this anniversary by launching an alliance with Monthly Review, the world’s foremost independent socialist journal. ANTHROPOCENTRISM VERSUS BIOCENTRISM – MURRAY BOOKCHIN DISCUSSES A FALSE DICHOTOMY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6624 “We have no need for ‘biocentrism,’ ‘anthropocentrism,’ or for that matter any ‘centrism,’ nor for any ideology that diverts popular attention from the social sources of the ecological crisis." BOLIVIA’S GARCÍA LINERA: ‘MOVING BEYOND CAPITALISM IS A UNIVERSAL TASK’ http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6663 “We have nothing against the US government or its people. But no one – absolutely no one – should come here and tell us what to do, say or think.“ CANADA THREATENS TRADE WAR TO PROTECT DIRTY OIL EXPORTS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6661 Harper government threatens retaliation if European Union accurately labels oil from tar sands as highly polluting TORONTO MEETING CHALLENGES CANADA’S TAR SANDS CRIMINALS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6672 Actions against tar sands and pipelines are an opportunity to revitalize the movement to stop climate change ACTIVIST EXPOSES THE LIES OF AUSTRALIAN’S GAS FRACKERS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6658 An advertising campaign by Australia’s Coal Seam Gas industry claims to provide ‘facts’ about the benefits of fracking. Their claims don’t stand up. ANTI-NUCLEAR CONFERENCE IN JAPAN CALLS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION, MARCH 11 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6646 “We now stand at a crossroads. We have the choice to break out of the nuclear fuel chain and move towards efficient, renewable and sustainable energy that does not threaten health or environment.” OBAMA’S ANTI-CLIMATE CRUSADE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6620 In his election campaign, Obama said he was concerned about global warming. In office, he has shown a deep commitment to fossil fuels +++ TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Order today at your favorite bookseller, or from ++Haymarket Books http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People ++Ecosocialist Bookstore http://astore.amazon.com/climaandcapit-20 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
[Marxism] Climate and Capitalism, February 13, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ February 13, 2012 New articles … BEHIND THE ‘GREEN ECONOMY’ – A NEW DRIVE TO COMMODIFY NATURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6592 Faced with an even more complex and deeper crisis, capitalism is launching a fresh attack that combines the old austerity measures with an offensive to create new sources of profit and growth through the “Green Economy” agenda. UN BIODIVERSITY PLAN: NEOLIBERAL MEASURES TO COMMODIFY NATURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6613 Acción Ecológica is gathering signatures for this letter, in advance of the Global Dialogue Seminar on Scaling up Finance for Biodiversity, to be held in Quito, Ecuador, March 6-9 WHY THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY FIGHTS SO HARD TO BLOCK ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6589 The business models at the center of our economy are in the deepest possible conflict with physics and chemistry WAY BEYOND GREENWASHING. THE AGRIBUSINESS TAKEOVER OF PALE GREEN NGOS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6587 Many of the biggest conservation NGOs have done deals with international agribusiness. They greenwash industrial commodity agriculture in exchange for vague promises of sustainability and social justice. A MULTIMEDIA INTRODUCTION TO THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6585 “All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.” INDIGENOUS AND CLIMATE ACTIVISTS TELL EU EMBASSIES THE TRUTH ABOUT CANADA’S TAR SANDS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6582 “Our government is putting more energy into trying to kill climate change policies in other countries than doing its fair share to fight climate change in Canada.” EIGHT WAYS MONSANTO FAILS AT SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6603 Monsanto has held back the development of sustainable agriculture, and continues to do so. None of its competitors come close to matching its impact on global agriculture ‘STOP SIGNS’ EXAMINES CAPITALISM’S DESTRUCTIVE CAR MANIA http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6597 Book Review: Cars and capitalism go together, destroying lives, poisoning the air, and chewing up space, all in the name of profit SOCIALIST CITY COUNCILLOR REVIEWS “TOO MANY PEOPLE?” http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6538 “This book should be on the shelf of every active socialist, as well as anyone serious about tackling climate change” – Stephen Jolly +++ TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Order today at your favorite bookseller, or from ++Haymarket Books http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People ++Ecosocialist Bookstore http://astore.amazon.com/climaandcapit-20 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, February 6, 2012
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com ++ HEAR IAN ANGUS IN GUELPH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 8 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6575 Author of “Too Many People?” will speak Wednesday, February 8th in Guelph, Ontario. Sponsored by the Guelph District Labor Council, Guelph Campus Co-Op, and Transition Guelph ++ February 6, 2012 ... New articles … ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNATIONALISM: HOW CUBA CAN HELP SAVE THE EARTH http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6562 For over 5 decades, Cuban medical brigades have shown what true internationalism and humanism mean in practice. Now the embattled island can lead the global fight against environmental destruction WITHOUT WOMEN THERE IS NO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6560 La Via Campesina is working with feminist organizations and networks like the World March of Women to promote networking and solidarity among women in North and South SOCIALIST CITY COUNCILLOR REVIEWS “TOO MANY PEOPLE?” http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6538 “This book should be on the shelf of every active socialist, as well as anyone serious about tackling climate change” – Stephen Jolly THE PARADOX OF CUBAN AGRICULTURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6555 Cuban agricultural production expanded 4.2% per year from 1996 to 2005, at a time when the average growth in the region was 0% WORTH FRAMING: BARRY COMMONER EXPLAINS WHY “CONSUME LESS” IS THE WRONG SLOGAN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6550 Pioneer socialist ecologist Barry Commoner, author of The Closing Circle, speaking at Harvard University, during the first Earth Day, April 1970 UK GOVERNMENTS LIED ABOUT THE NEED FOR NUCLEAR http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6530 Report endorsed by MPs from four parties says that governments misled Parliament to win support for new nuclear power stations ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! IT’S TIME FOR A MAXIMUM WAGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6572 US radicals came up with sound proposals for a maximum income a century ago. Isn’t it time to put that idea back on the table? UPDATED: ANTI-IMMIGRATION GROUPS ORGANIZE AGAINST BOOK THAT EXPOSES POPULATION MYTHS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6495 Lacking arguments of their own, anti-immigration groups on three continents have resorted to distributing an article they don’t agree with, by an author who rejects what they stand for – just because it is critical of “Too Many People?” +++ TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Order today at your favorite bookseller, or from ++Haymarket Books http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People ++Ecosocialist Bookstore http://astore.amazon.com/climaandcapit-20 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
[Marxism] Help Wanted -- Barry Commoner article
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am trying to find a copy of an article by Barry Commoner that appeared in the January 1988 issue of Utne Reader. No library that I have access to has Utne reader that far back. Can anyone help? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Anti-immigration groups take on "Too Many People?"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm pleased to report that "Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis" (Haymarket 2011) which I co-authored with Simon Butler, is causing anti-immigrant groups some pain. As I explain in this article, they seem to be coordinating their attacks on it: <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6495> The president of one such group, Madeline Weld of the Population Institute of Canada, has written an account of the "Too Many People?" book launch meeting I spoke at in Montreal last week. My favorite sentence: “It is probably symptomatic of the politicized population-denial culture of our progressive universities that sustainability advocates were involved in hosting the book launch of a population-denying Bolshevik.” The entire unintentionally hilarious and factually inaccurate article, titled "The "Eco" Marxist Case For Population-Denial---Ian Angus' book launch in Montreal" is here: <http://candobetter.net/node/2758> Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com -- 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
Re: [Marxism] Latest 100 messages archive
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect panix.com> writes: > We're back in business. > It was working for a while, but at 5:35pm eastern time, Dec. 19, it is out of service again. Ian 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
Re: [Marxism] Ted Trainer responds to Simon Butler on
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Stuart Munckton gmail.com> writes: > Environmentalist Ted Trainer's interview in Green Left > http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/49371 > Simon Butler's response: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/49654 > Ted Trainer's response http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/49654#comment-26837 Canadian ecosocialist Jeff White replies to Ted Trainer: "With a straight face Trainer tells us we should “ignore capitalism to death” while developing “local communities that don’t operate according to capitalist principles”. Evidently we can wish capitalism away without ever attempting to dispossess it of its massive wealth and power." Full comment: http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6119&cpage=1#comment-17335 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
[Marxism] Australian socialists debate ecosocialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is there a need for the word “ecosocialism”? Does it mean something substantially different from socialism without the prefix? Will using it help to build the left? Or is it an unnecessary and dangerous concession to greens who lean to liberalism and anarchism? Here at Climate and Capitalism, we gave our answers to those questions long ago, by putting the words “Ecosocialism or barbarism: there is no third way” at the top of every page. But on that question we are in a minority. While the word “ecosocialism” is used by growing numbers of green lefts and left greens, it is still very far from being universally accepted. Of course, it is just a word. What’s important is the idea that in the 21st century the fight against environmental destruction and the fight against capitalism are inextricably linked – neither can succeed without the other. The label anyone chooses to apply to that concept is far less important. Still, we think that “ecosocialism” expresses that concept better than any other, so we have been pleased to see a discussion on this subject develop in the Socialist Alliance, the largest socialist organization in Australia. Most left groups insist that members keep their internal disagreements and debates behind closed doors and carry a common party line in public. The Socialist Alliance has taken the unusual – and in my opinion totally positive – step of carrying on political discussions in public. Any member can write articles for its public online discussion bulletin, Alliance Voices. Continued here: http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6229 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
[Marxism] Early reviews of "Too Many People?"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Based on my previous experiences, I expected to wait months before seeing any feedback, but four reviews of "Too Many people?" have already been published in four countries -- just 6 weeks after the official publication date. Two are in print publications, all are available online. SOCIALIST REVIEW (UK): "Too Many People? is not disheartening or alarmist, as some books about climate change can be. It is assertive, passionate and a key reference for arming ourselves against those, on the right and the left, who talk about population control." http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11851 ECOCLUB (GREECE) "This timely work methodically reviews and demolishes the pseudo-science of Populationism … reinforcing humanist and internationalist arguments exposing the methods and politics and pseudo-statistics of populationist organisations ... A must read which will become a classic" http://ecoclub.com/headlines/reviews/756-27-review SOCIALIST WORKER (CANADA) "Their central argument – that it is not simply our numbers, but how our society is organized to benefit only few – is one that needs to be heard in the environmental movement." http://socialistworkercanada.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/book-review-are-too-many-p\ eople-the-problem/ HOT TOPIC (NEW ZEALAND) "An ever-necessary reminder that the world's poor are the first victims of ecological disaster, not the cause." http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=5824 TOO MANY PEOPLE? by Ian Angus and Simon Butler, is available through most bookstores, or directly from the publisher, Haymarket Books. http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com -- 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
[Marxism] Ian Angus on Pittsburgh Radio, October 30.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This coming Sunday, October 30, I will be interviewed on Chris Moore's show, on KDKA 1020AM in Pittsburgh, PA. That's a 50,000 Watt station that they say can be heard over the air in 36 states, as well as on the Internet ... so there is a very big potential audience for views that don't often get heard on commercial radio. The topic is the new book I wrote with Simon Butler, "Too many People?" (Haymarket) and the article we wrote this week for Grist on "Is the Environmental Crisis Caused by the 7 Billion or the 1%?" I'm scheduled to be on for an hour, starting after the 5pm (eastern time) news. It's supposed to be a 20 minute interview, followed by a phone-in. I hope many Marxmail readers will listen and participate. The book: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People The article: http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=5626 Ian Angus Editor, Climate and Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com 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
[Marxism] Help needed -- Source for Quotation
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This quote has been attributed to the French socialist leader Jean Jaures: "Take from the altars of the past the fire, not the ashes." Can anyone point me to the article/book where it originally appeared? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Too Many People? Interview on commercial radio
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Radicals don't often get a chance to speak on commercial radio in North America, so I was pleased to be a guest this morning on the Lanigan & Malone show on Magic 107.5 in Cleveland Ohio, discussing our new book, "Too Many People?" This was a pretty dramatic change from the interviews Simon and I have had on public and community stations, where sympathetic interviewers gave us time to answer and didn't interrupt or argue. But as a result it may have been more interesting to listeners, and I suspect it reached more people than all community stations combined! The show is online here -- my segment starts about 16:35 <http://www.wmji.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html? podcast=ondemand&selected_podcast=10-21-11_7hr_1319201292_10181.mp3> TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 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
Re: [Marxism] Occupy Melbourne under police attack -- solidarity needed
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Stuart Munckton gmail.com> writes: > Thousands of people occupying the streets surrounding Occupy Melbourne, > including MUA and CFMEU members, in response to call out for support. This > could be Occupy Australia's "Barcelona" moment (when Catalan police tried to > break up camp, but protesters retook it) Thurs 10:15pm eastern time. Radio station 3CR is broadcasting live from the site of this confrontation Listen live http://media.on.net/radio/61.m3u 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
Re: [Marxism] expose of the IPCC
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paula msn.com> writes: > Comment by Judith Curry on Laframboise’s book: > http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/19/laframboise-on-the-ipcc/#more-5396 As Joe Romm writes, "Judith Curry is one of the most debunked climate scientists in the country" See, for example (and there's lots more) ... http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2010/07/25/206475/hockey-stick-real-climate- montford-judith-curry-tamino-gavin-schmid/ http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2010/10/she-who-refuses-to-do-arithmetic-is.html http://judithcurry.com/2010/11/03/reversing-the-direction-of-the-positive- feedback-loop/#comment-7499 http://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/judith-curry-building-bridges- burning-bridges/ http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2010/11/11/207018/judith-curry-climate-science/ 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
[Marxism] How to make an ecosocialist revolution
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "We do not claim to have all the answers, but we do have one big answer: the only basis for long-term, permanent change in the way humanity relates to the rest of nature, is an ecosocialist revolution." Keynote presentation by Ian Angus to the Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne, Australia, October 2, 2011 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=5449 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
[Marxism] "Too Many People?" available now
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == TOO MANY PEOPLE? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler ISBN: 9781608461400 is available now from Haymarket Books http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Too-Many-People and from many booksellers, including The Ecosocialist Bookstore http://astore.amazon.com/climaandcapit-20/detail/1608461408 === Early reviews RAJ PATEL, AUTHOR OF STUFFED AND STARVED: “This excellent book is steadfast in its refutations of the flabby, misogynist and sometimes racist thinking that population growth catastrophists use to peddle their claims. It’s just the thing to send populationists scurrying back to their bunkers.” FRED PEARCE, AUTHOR OF PEOPLEQUAKE: "How did apparently progressive greens and defenders of the underprivileged turn into people-haters, convinced of the evils of over-breeding among the world's poor? How did they come to believe the 200-year-old myths of a right-wing imperialist friend of Victorian mill-owners? It's a sorry story, told here with verve and anger." JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, AUTHOR OF MARX’S ECOLOGY: “Ian Angus and Simon Butler are not ordinary environmentalists and Too Many People? is not an ordinary book on population and the environment. They demonstrate that by demolishing the notion that too many people (and too many consumers) are the source of our environmental ills we can get at the real problem: the system of accumulation and waste commonly known as capitalism.” DEREK WALL, AUTHOR OF THE RISE OF THE GREEN LEFT: “Sadly the population myth has been used to distract attention from the roots of ecological crisis in a destructive economic system and to shift the blame for problems such as climate change on to the poor. This splendid book is an essential read for all those of us concerned with creating an ecologically sustainable and just future. Buy it, read it and spread the word!” MARTIN EMPSON, AUTHOR OF MARXISM AND ECOLOGY: CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET: "Ian Angus and Simon Butler’s superb book challenges the “common sense” idea that there are too many people. Clearly and concisely they blame a system that puts profit before people and planet, refuting the arguments of the later day Malthusians. It is a book that should be read by every environmental campaigner, trade unionist and political activist." CHRIS WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF ECOLOGY AND SOCIALISM: “Angus and Butler have written a comprehensive dissection of the arguments surrounding over-population, It’s a vital and insightful socialist response to the debate and highly recommended to anyone interested in fighting for a better world and avoiding the pitfalls of false solutions.” BETSY HARTMANN, AUTHOR OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND WRONGS: THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF POPULATION CONTROL: “With clear prose and careful, cogent analysis, Angus and Butler provide the tools necessary to dismantle the myth of overpopulation step by step … [and] show the way to a more hopeful, justice-centered environmental and reproductive politics.” JOEL KOVEL, AUTHOR OF THE ENEMY OF NATURE: “This is an essential subject, and we are in Angus and Butler’s debt for treating it with such clarity and rigor.” 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
[Marxism] Trade unions must join the fight against climate change
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While in Australia, I've been invited to speak to several meetings of trade unionists. These are the opening remarks I made to trade union gatherings in Geelong and Melbourne in the past week. http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=5409 I will also be speaking at the Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne this weekend, Sept. 30 - Oct. 4. http://climatechangesocialchange2011.wordpress.com/ ---- Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com -- 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
Re: [Marxism] query
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Steve asks: >>A friend in Japan has asked me whether Robert's Rules of Order are recognized >>or used in all countries (nation-states, including failed states), >>>>especially as a form of parliamentary procedure. I have not a clue about >>how to answer his question. Any suggestions would be appreciated. There are two dominant traditions in English speaking countries. I believe that Robert's is based on the U.S. House of Representatives' rules, but it is really designed to be used in non-governmental organizations, and is so used in many countries. I've never heard of Robert's as such being used in an actual legislature, but I suppose it's possible. The governments of most of the countries in the British commonwealth follow procedures based on Erskine May’s "The Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament from Britain." Canada uses its own unique variant, built largely around Arthur Beauchesne’s "Parliamentary Rules and Forms of the House of Commons of Canada," usually referred to just as Beauchesne's. Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Should Socialists support nuclear power?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Climate and Capitalism has frequently published articles arguing that nuclear power is innately dangerous and must be stopped. To encourage discussion of this critical issue, we have now posted an article by two veteran socialists who argue that the anti-nuke position is based on “fear and fantasy,” and that only nuclear power can meet society’s energy needs. What do you think? Should socialists support the expansion of nuclear power? If not, what’s the alternative? Share your views at http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4707 Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com -- 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism -- Announcement re Facebook
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Climate & Capitalism Facebook group will disappear soon. To continue being notified of articles through Facebook, please LIKE our new page: http://on.fb.me/j31O2a WHY? Facebook says it is replacing "old groups" with "new groups" and there is no way for us to convert from one to the other. So we are launching a Page, which we hope will last longer! We will keep the group going as long as possible, but we can't predict when it will die ... so please like the new page now, and change your bookmarks. We apologize for this, but the ways of Facebook are mysterious ... Ian Angus, Editor Climate & Capitalism http://climateandcapitalism.com 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism: Top 10 for April 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative http://climateandcapitalism.com === 10 MOST-READ ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2011 UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2268> This Declaration was adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Bolivia. The Bolivian government has submitted it to the United Nations for consideration. BREAKING THE REAL POPULATION TABOO <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4247> Coming soon: a new book by Ian Angus and Simon Butler that exposes the fallacies of the “too many people” explanation for the environmental crisis THE FACTS ABOUT THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=641> Facts just don’t matter if they might undermine profits. SCIENTISTS CONCLUDE: CHERNOBYL KILLED NEARLY 1 MILLION PEOPLE <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3146> A massively documented new book charges International Atomic Energy Agency with covering up the extent of the “worst technogenic accident in history” PROFIT PATHOLOGY AND THE DISPOSABLE PLANET <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4104> The SuperRich are more wedded to their wealth than to the earth upon which they live, more concerned about the fate of their fortunes than the fate of humanity, so possessed by their pursuit of profit as to not see the disaster looming ahead. RENEWABLE POWER ISN’T JUST SAFER THAN NUCLEAR, IT’S CHEAPER <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4134> Amory Lovins:“Nuclear is such a slow and costly climate solution, it actually reduces and retards climate protection” THE BIGGEST CHEMICAL POISONING CRISIS IN US HISTORY <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4137> One year after the BP oil spill, experts describe the the impact of the disaster on wildlife, the environment, and human health as “catastrophic” EVO MORALES: 10 COMMANDMENTS TO SAVE THE PLANET <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=566> “If we want to save the planet earth to save life and humanity, we are obliged to end the capitalist system” WHAT WOULD A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY LOOK LIKE? <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4042> The ecological changes proposed by socialists are all eminently feasible — if we build a society whose objective is human and natural sustainability through the co-development of na¬ture and human society. MONTREAL MEETING SHOWS GROWING SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE <http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4170> Cochabamba+1 — ”The first chance in twenty years for such a political discussion embracing forces from both Quebec and [English] Canada” 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 26, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ April 26, 2011 ENVIRONMENTALISTS, HEALTH GROUPS AND UNIONS CONDEMN CANADA’S SUPPORT OF DEADLY ASBESTOS TRADE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4243 The Canadian government is paying millions to remove asbestos from the Prime Minister’s home, while he supports export of the same deadly material to third world countries REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY FROM COCHABAMBA TO DURBAN http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4239 Speech by Elizabeth Peredo Beltran, Director of Bolivia’s Solon Foundation, to the closing session of the Cochabamba+1 Conference in Montreal, April 17, 2011 RICH COUNTRIES DON’T CUT EMISSIONS, THEY EXPORT THEM http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4234 More proof of Kyoto’s failure: emissions transferred to the third world outweigh claimed cuts by more than 300% PROPOSED CLIMATE FUND CO-CHAIR ADDS A NEW QUANTUM OF GLOBAL RISK http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4216 Trevor Manuel’s long history of collaboration with Washington and London raises prospects for “default” by the industrialized North on payment of climate debt to the impoverished South BOOK REVIEW: THE FLOODED EARTH http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4226 Peter D. Ward. The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps. New York: Basic Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0465009497. 272 pages. COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED BY MINING WILL CONFRONT BARRICK GOLD http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4207 Once a year, the Directors of the world’s most powerful gold mining company gather in downtown Toronto. Join us and representatives from mining-impacted communities to… Confront Barrick Gold! + Other Recent articles: TORONTO PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE MEETS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4196 WE ONLY WANT THE EARTH http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4185 MONTREAL MEETING SHOWS GROWING SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4170 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE MONTREAL CONFERENCE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4177 TANURO: TO STOP NUCLEAR, WE MUST END CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4158 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 24, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ April 24, 2011 TORONTO PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE MEETS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4196 Meeting marks significant progress in the confidence and maturity of climate justice forces WE ONLY WANT THE EARTH http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4185 A song written in 1907 by the Irish republican socialist James Connolly, to the tune of “A Nation Once Again,” written in the 1840s by Tomas Davies. MONTREAL MEETING SHOWS GROWING SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4170 Conference organizer: “This is the first chance in twenty years for such a political discussion embracing forces from both Quebec and [English] Canada” SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE MONTREAL CONFERENCE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4177 Discussions at the Cochabamba+1 meeting posed a critical question: how can we build a truly inclusive network that incorporates voices from across the climate justice spectrum? TANURO: TO STOP NUCLEAR, WE MUST END CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4158 Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro, author of “l’impossible capitalisme vert,” speaking at a meeting organized by the New Anticapitalist Party, April 1 in Marseille. (en français) + Other Recent articles: FUKUSHIMA AND CAPITALIST INHUMANITY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4154 UK GOVERNMENT PROMISED OIL FIRMS ACCESS TO IRAQ OIL http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4152 THE BIGGEST CHEMICAL POISONING CRISIS IN US HISTORY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4137 CARBON TRADING IN EUROPE: AN EXPENSIVE AND HARMFUL FAILURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4112 PROFIT PATHOLOGY AND THE DISPOSABLE PLANET http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4104 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 21, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ April 21, 2011 FUKUSHIMA AND CAPITALIST INHUMANITY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4154 The Fukushima disaster shows once again that for capitalism, the health and life of workers, neighbouring populations, and the victims of the pollution is just an adjustable variable, like wages UK GOVERNMENT PROMISED OIL FIRMS ACCESS TO IRAQ OIL http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4152 Secret memos show that before the war was launched, British officials promised oil executives “a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq” CLIMATE ACTIVISTS CONFRONT ANTI-IMMIGRANT FAKE GREENS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4148 In Washington DC last week, Power Shift attendees stood strong against groups like Progressives for Immigration Reform and made it clear that environmentalists stand with immigrants as we begin to face the realities of climate change AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE SUMMIT DEBATES CARBON PRICING http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4143 Participants aim to build a people’s power movement through community organizing, alliances and mass mobilization ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 28 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4139 Carson on Monbiot … Bond on South Africa … Eagleton on Marx … Stiglitz on the super-rich …. Climate and Capitalism’s continuing guide to essential reading for green lefts and left greens THE BIGGEST CHEMICAL POISONING CRISIS IN US HISTORY http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4137 One year after the BP oil spill, experts describe the the impact of the disaster on wildlife, the environment, and human health as “catastrophic” + Other Recent articles: AMORY LOVINS: RENEWABLE POWER ISN’T JUST SAFER THAN NUCLEAR, IT’S CHEAPER http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4134 U.S. POLITICIANS VOTE AGAINST SCIENCE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4125 FARMERS SUFFER WHILE FOOD PRICES RISE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4121 CARBON TRADING IN EUROPE: AN EXPENSIVE AND HARMFUL FAILURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4112 PROFIT PATHOLOGY AND THE DISPOSABLE PLANET http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4104 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 14, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ April 14, 2011 AMORY LOVINS: RENEWABLE POWER ISN’T JUST SAFER THAN NUCLEAR, IT’S CHEAPER http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4134 “Nuclear is such a slow and costly climate solution, it actually reduces and retards climate protection” U.S. POLITICIANS VOTE AGAINST SCIENCE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4125 For the rulers of the world’s most powerful country, science is just a matter of opinion ... FARMERS SUFFER WHILE FOOD PRICES RISE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4121 Food prices are going up, but family farmers in the U.S. are worse off CARBON TRADING IN EUROPE: AN EXPENSIVE AND HARMFUL FAILURE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4112 Polluters reap big profits, emissions stay high, real action is avoided … and the revised third phase doesn’t improve it. THIRD TORONTO PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATE JUSTICE, APRIL 23, 2011 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4109 Join the People’s Assembly on April 23, 2011, and continue the realization of an inclusive, united, and empowered Climate Justice Movement in Toronto PROFIT PATHOLOGY AND THE DISPOSABLE PLANET http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4104 Michael Parenti: The SuperRich are more wedded to their wealth than to the earth upon which they live, more concerned about the fate of their fortunes than the fate of humanity, so possessed by their pursuit of profit as to not see the disaster looming ahead. 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
Re: [Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg quote -- Source,
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == DW gmail.com> writes: > This is from the information block from the online version noted by Lou: I should have been clearer. I have the information from the translation of the Anti-Critique posted on the invaluable MIA. What I'm trying to find is the source of the translation I quoted, which is not the translation that MIA has. That is ... "Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength." Ian Angus 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
Re: [Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg quote -- Source
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ian Angus gmail.com> writes: > "Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always > struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing > so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed > in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads > in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, > it retains its strength." - Rosa Luxemburg. Many thanks to Lou for locating this in the last paragraph of Luxemburg's Anti- Critique. Now ... can anyone help me identify the source of this particular translation? Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg quote -- Source
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This quote appears in various places on the web, mostly in collections of quotations, but none of them gives a source. Can anyone tell me if Rosa Luxemburg actually wrote this, and if so, where it appears in her works? "Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength." - Rosa Luxemburg. Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 9, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. Web: http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ April 9, 2011 PROFIT PATHOLOGY AND THE DISPOSABLE PLANET http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4104 Michael Parenti: The SuperRich are more wedded to their wealth than to the earth upon which they live, more concerned about the fate of their fortunes than the fate of humanity, so possessed by their pursuit of profit as to not see the disaster looming ahead. PAMPHLET: WHY NUCLEAR IS NOT THE ANSWER http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4109 Socialist Worker (UK) has published an unpdated edition of Martin Empson’s pamphlet Climate Change: Why Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, with a new Introduction on the Fukushima disaster. TORONTO PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY: A NEW APPROACH TO CLIMATE JUSTICE ORGANIZING http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4089 Building a movement with “radical horizontality” THIRD TORONTO PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATE JUSTICE, APRIL 23, 2011! http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4109 Join the People’s Assembly on April 23, 2011, and continue the realization of an inclusive, united, and empowered Climate Justice Movement in Toronto SYDNEY: CLIMATE ACTIVISTS OUTMOBILIZE DENIERS 4 TO 1 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4080 A note and photos from Peter Boyle of Australia’s Socialist Alliance 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, April 3, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ April 3, 2011 WHAT WOULD A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY LOOK LIKE? http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4042 The ecological changes proposed by socialists are all eminently feasible — if we build a society whose objective is human and natural sustainability through the co-development of nature and human society. MONTREAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON CLIMATE JUSTICE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4000 Montreal International Conference Cochabamba +1: Climate Justice and Ecological Alternatives, April 15-17, 2011 JOBS FROM COAL? DON’T BET ON IT http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4074 When Big Coal argues for permission to build coal-fired power plants, it always makes big promises about job creation. A new study shows the promises are no more credible than promises of “clean coal.” A PEOPLE’S PETITION FOR ONE MILLION CLIMATE JOBS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4065 It’s time for a mass movement that stops the cuts, force the bosses to create jobs, and solves the environmental crisis. THE CDM AND AFRICA: MARKETING A NEW LAND GRAB http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4061 Excerpts from a briefing by the African Biodiversity Network, Biofuelwatch, Carbon Trade Watch, the Gaia Foundation and the Timberwatch Coalition. JAPANESE GREEN ACTIVISTS: NUCLEAR POWER CAN’T FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4028 Over the next decade there will be ZERO additional contribution from nuclear power in the fight to combat global warming. AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS SOCIAL CHANGE TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4072 Sept. 30-Oct. 3: Three days of feature talks, panel discussions and more than 20 workshops to discuss solutions for a world in crisis 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
Re: [Marxism] evolution explanation idea's needed
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == aol.com> writes: > Origin of the Family-Frederick Engels > Origin of the Species-Charles Darwin Both of these are excellent books, but probably not appropriate for the beginners that David is working with. I would suggest "The tangled bank: an introduction to evolution" by Carl Zimmer or "Evolution: a very short introduction" by Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth Neither is a Marxist text, of course, but both explain the basic concepts well. Ian Angus 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
[Marxism] Climate & Capitalism, March 27, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 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 27, 2011 MONTREAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON CLIMATE JUSTICE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4000 Working agenda for the Montreal International Conference Cochabamba +1: Climate Justice and Ecological Alternatives, April 15-17, 2011 GEORGE MONBIOT’S NUCLEAR MISTAKES http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4024 British journalist George Monbiot has come out in favor of nuclear power. Do his arguments hold up? MURRAY BOOKCHIN: ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS ARE SOCIAL PROBLEMS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4020 “Our present ecological problems cannot be clearly understood, much less resolved, without resolutely dealing with problems within society.” GUATEMALA: BLOOD IN THE BIOFUEL http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4017 Internationally-funded Guatemalan bio-fuel interests are evicting Mayan Qeqchi families from their historic lands, destroying homes and crops, killing one and injuring more. Thousands are without food or shelter. JATROPHA BIOFUEL PROJECT: EMISSIONS UP TO SIX TIMES GREATER THAN FOSSIL FUELS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4012 A new study from Kenya shows that jatropha, which has been promoted as a “wonder fuel,” is a disaster for the environment and for the people the plantations displace ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GROUPS WIN CALIFORNIA COURT FIGHT http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4009 Air Resources Board ordered to revisit alternatives to unjust cap and trade system PROTECT THE GREAT LAKES AS A COMMONS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4006 A new report from the Council of Canadians calls for the allocation of significant resources to protecting the Great Lakes as a Commons, a Public Trust and a Protected Bioregion ALTERNATIVES TO THE DOMINANT AGRICULTURAL MODEL http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3997 Food sovereignty has to break not only with a capitalist model of agriculture but also with a patriarchal system that is deeply rooted in a society that oppresses and subordinates women WASSERMAN: NUCLEAR CANNOT BE MADE SAFE http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3995 Fossil and nuclear fuels are at war with the environment and with basic human rights. Until we shut down all the nuclear plants and get off of fossil and nuclear fuels, we’re not going to have any kind of social democracy. +++ Other recent articles LA VIA CAMPESINA: THE BALI SEED DECLARATION http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3985 SEED TREATY LEGALIZES THEFT http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3971 THE OIL-FOOD PRICE SHOCK http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3983 JAPAN’S UNNECESSARY AND PREDICTABLE NUCLEAR CRISIS http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3964 TWO BOOKS ON CAPITALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LEFT http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3949 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
