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Bookshelf: Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming

3rd April 2016

The climate crisis is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, which threatens not only global civilization, but the very survival of our species and many others. This book gives a lucid explanation of the science of climate change and illuminates the role of capitalism in creating and perpetuating the climate crisis and related dangers….

CLIMATE CRISIS

Digest: Climate crisis and the myth of ‘green’ capitalism

29th March 2016

Much of the mainstream media, corporate lobbyists and politicians would like the public to think of climate change as something akin to a natural phenomenon. In this second part of our series on Capitalism and Climate Change, we present a selection of articles that examine the deep-seated connections between climate change and a rapacious global economic order….

Corporate Watch

CLIMATE CRISIS

Series: Capitalism and Climate Change

22nd March 2016

Climate change is real, and it’s going to get worse. This video looks at how obstacles to solving the problem are intrinsic to our capitalist system. The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it’s going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations….

Protesters block Silicon Valley shuttles, smash Google bus window

TheVerge.com

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New Book: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

27th January 2016

Douglas Rushkoff writes: We’ve to stop looking at our economy as a broken system, but one that’s working absolutely true to its original design. We are not witnessing capitalism gone wrong — an egalitarian currency system corrupted by greedy bankers — but, rather, capitalism doing exactly what it was programmed to do from the beginning….

Economy

Video: What it really means when the top 1% own half of India’s wealth

9th January 2016

This short animated video on inequality from Krishi TV shows what it really means when the top 1% of India owns half of the country’s wealth. The benefits of India’s economic growth of the past years have been largely appropriated by this small group, at the expense of the welfare of the majority of Indians….

Development/Growth

Towards A Unitive Life: An Interview with Shyam Balakrishnan

5th November 2015

One World University Shyam Balakrishnan is the coordinator of One-World University, a collective dedicated to the study of dialectics and geopolitics. He lives at an organic farm in Wayanad, Kerala, which is also envisioned as one of the campuses of One-World University. On May 20, 2014, Balakrishnan was arrested by the state police on charges of being…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

20th October 2015

‘Capitalism is Mother Earth’s Cancer’: World People’s Summit Issues 12 Demands Common Dreams Decrying capitalism as a “threat to life,” an estimated 7,000 environmentalists, farmers, and Indigenous activists from 40 countries convened in the Bolivian town of Tiquipaya for this weekend’s World People’s Conference on Climate Change, aiming to elevate the demands of social movements…

ALTERNATIVES

Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change – Selected Excerpts

20th June 2015

The Encyclical by Pope Francis is being hailed by environmentalists as the second coming. It’s hardly that, in my view. Nonetheless, I was struck within minutes of starting it, by the incisive and accurate commentary it offers on our true predicament. Here are some passages that resonated with me and that I found highly insightful. Manu…

CLIMATE CRISIS

LibCom series on Capitalist agriculture

18th April 2015

Part 4 – Capitalist agriculture: class formation and the metabolic rift Libcom.org In this fourth installment on our series on food and climate, we look at the dynamics of capitalist agriculture in terms of production, class formation, and the ‘metabolic rift’ in the nitrogen cycle. Part 1 (Climate, class, and the Neolithic revolution) looked at the…

Development/Growth

Challenging Thomas Piketty: Growth is not the answer to inequality

24th March 2015

Tim Jackson, The Guardian, UK Those like me who fear that the continued pursuit of economic growth on a finite planet might be neither possible nor desirable face a different kind of challenge, brought home to us by Thomas Piketty’s 700 page tome Capital in the 21st Century. The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist” is…

GREEN POLITICS

Digital Pamphlet: Do We Live on a One Party Planet?

26th November 2014

Introducing a new digital pamphlet designed to connect the dots on advanced-stage, 21st Century neoliberalism /The Rules We now all live on a One Party Planet. This is a provocative claim, pregnant with meaning and implication. If it’s true in the way we believe it to be, it means there is an identifiable form of totalitarianism…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

4th November 2014

Why the Fracking Phenomenon Will Leave Us High and Dry Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute A new, landmark report shows that hopes of a long-term golden era in American oil & gas production are unfounded. Eight Pieces of Our Oil Price Predicament Gail Tverberg A person might think that oil prices would be fairly stable. Prices would…

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Naomi Klein: Capitalism vs The Climate

13th October 2014

Naomi Klein, author of the groundbreaking books, No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, is back with a new groundbreaking work, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. The book resets the debate over global warming by focusing on how it is integrally related to the current economic system that spans the globe. Her new book, This…

GREEN POLITICS

Ted Trainer: The Simpler Way

6th October 2014

Ted Trainer, Social Work, University of NSW (Editor’s Note: Below is a summary of Ted Trainer’s ‘The Simpler Way‘, which he defines as “Working for transition from consumer society to a more simpler, more cooperative, just and ecologically sustainable society”. In the web page linked above, Trainer provides more information and an exhaustive set of documents arguing how environmental…

ALTERNATIVES

May Day – Let us talk ‘Degrowth’

1st May 2014

Aditya Nigam, Kafila.org I saw men on television (trade union stars, Cabinet Ministers, left-wing think tank advisers) visibly hystericized by talking economics: eyes would glaze, shoulders hunch, lips tremble in a sensual paroxysm of ‘letting the market decide’, ‘making the hard decisions’, ‘levelling the playing field’, ‘reforming management practices’, improving productivity’…those who queried the wisdom…