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• David Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from overpopulation
  24 Jan 2012 in Business & Politics

  Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of Optimum Population Trust, a British outfit that, using the name Population Matters, promotes birth control for poor people and immigration …

• There is virtually no possibility that global population will ever reach 15bn
  27 Oct 2011 in Science & Technology

  The world’s population will soon pass 7 Billion, and the United Nations Population Fund will mark that milestone this week by releasing its annual State of World Population report. On October 22 the UK Guardian claimed that the report will …

• The dirty side of the British Royal Wedding
  27 May 2011 in Business & Politics

  Did the Royal Wedding set a new record for greenhouse gas emissions produced by a one-day event? A while back, in an article about a bizarre scheme to let people in Britain offset their carbon emissions by paying for birth …

• Are consumers responsible for the BP oil disaster?
  29 Mar 2011 in Business & Politics

  Following the BP/Deepwater oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, many commentators have tried to explain why it happened. Many blame greed and arrogance in BP’s executive offices. Others blame it on the Military-Oil-Government alliance that views free-flowing oil …

• Exploding the Myths of “Carbon Offsets”
  27 Jan 2009 in Business & Politics

  Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of …

• Ecosocialism and the fight against global warming: An Interview with Ian Angus
  22 Jan 2009 in Business & Politics

  Ian Angus, founder and coordinating committee member of the Ecosocialist International Network and editor of the web journal Climate and Capitalism, is interviewed here by the Greek newspaper Kokkino (Red), which published a slightly abridged version: Let’s begin with a …