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Hugo Chavez on climate change and capitalism

16 March, 2013

President Hugo Chavez has lost his two year long battle against cancer. But “those who die for life, can’t be called dead,” Vice-president Nicolas Maduro said when he made his heartfelt announcement of the death of Chavez on Venezuelan public … Continue reading

Mr. Burns

Occupy Earth: Nature is the 99%, too

10 November, 2011

“Tearing apart wildlife habitat to make a profit and doing the same at a workplace are just considered the price of doing business. Clearcutting a forest and clearcutting a labor force are two sides of the same coin.” Continue reading

The left photo shows smoke coming from the Fukushima nuclear plant and the photo to the right shows the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant.

Nuclear safety expert explains why he became anti-nuclear and pro-solar

17 July, 2011

The Italian nuclear engineer and safety expert Cesare Silvi explains why he left his former pro-nuclear stance for solar and other renewable energy sources: “I soon came to the conclusion that neither international cooperation nor technological advancements would guarantee human … Continue reading

Wangari-Maathai

Wangari Maathai warns about resource conflicts: “If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight”

11 July, 2011

Wednesday the 6th of July 2011 Wangari Maathai received a honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University and spoke about her work with the Green Belt movement, the Taking Roots movie and more. Watch her speech, I recorded it for you. [15:39] … Continue reading

Coal Power Plant south-west of Düsseldorf and Neuss in Germany. Photo by Bruno D Rodrigues.

Fossil fuel expansion is a crime against humanity

27 June, 2011

Marc Lee who is the senior economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and chair of the Progressive Economics Forum writes in one of his latest articles that we should see fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity. … Continue reading

“This may be the only political issue whose results could be catastrophic permanently”

19 August, 2010

Here is a quick quote from Tom Toles, a pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist at the Washington Post, about the ongoing “climate debate”: “We are apparently going to let the debate on the science run until hell freezes over. If you … Continue reading

What price will children have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations?

23 November, 2009

Photo credit: Julien Harneis Lord David Puttnam, ambassador for Unicef UK, asks on BBC’s Green Room what kind of price our children and future generations will have to pay for “the three or four carbon-happy generations that have lived before … Continue reading

James Lovelock: “I hope we are civilised when climate disaster strikes”

13 July, 2009

The Inter Press Service has an interesting interview with James Lovelock, known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, about everything from the IPCC to geo-engineering and climate tipping points. Lovelock has earlier said that he believes that climate change is now … Continue reading

Australian Green Senator Milne speech: “climate nightmare is real and happening NOW”

20 June, 2009

The Australian Green senator Christine Milne, the first female leader of a political party in Tasmania’s history, delivered this speech to the Australian National Press Club this past week. Key quote from the speech: “The truth is the climate nightmare … Continue reading

Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war

12 March, 2009

Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don’t act quickly and determinedly to address climate change … Continue reading

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