Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• Uneven Development and Northern Imperialism in the making of Today’s Ecological Crisis

  What is equality and development? And what kind of influence has the environment on both of these relations? For me, environmentalism has always been about caring about the well-state and equality of everyone and everything. Al Gore said, during the …

• Watch: Monbiot meets the chief executive of oil giant Shell

  In this video George Monbiot, Britain’s leading green commentator, meets with Jeroen van de Veer who is the chief executive of oil giant Shell. Monbiot asks the oil giant about ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy investments and gas-flaring in Nigeria. …

• Gaza, lying and climate genocide

  Photo credit: smallislander The major threat to Australia and the World is from man-made global warming that according to top UK climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS will kill all but 500 million humans this century. However underlying this impending …

• Watch: Monbiot meets Fatih Birol and Shaun Spiers

  In his second and third interview George Monbiot meets Fatih Birol, the International Energy Authority’s chief economist, and Shaun Spiers, head of the “anti environmental” organisation the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Britain’s leading green commentator tackles the International Energy …

• Climate Emergency, Gaza Massacre & Orwellian Lies

  Photo credit: Amir Farshad Ebrahimi Australians (and indeed most people in the Western Murdochracies) live in an Orwellian world in which “war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength and 2 plus 2 does not equal 4”. [1] Thus …

• Obama: The time for delay and denial is over

  This week Al Gore, Barack Obama and Joe Biden met privately to discuss “energy and climate change and how policies in this area can stimulate the economy and create jobs”. Although it seems Obama did not offer Gore to be …

• Gore and Obama to meet privately in Chicago today

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum Today Al Gore, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will meet privately to discuss “energy and climate change and how policies in this area can stimulate the economy and create jobs”. Obama has earlier said that …

• Chevron Hires Global Warming Denier as Consultant

  According to the Amazon Defense Coalition the petrochemical company Chevron has hired Douglas Southgate, a so called “scientist” and an “environmental economist”, who is affiliated with the Heartland Institute, a climate change denying think tank. “Based in Chicago, Heartland promotes …

• Gore: The whole auto industry needs to be transformed

  Photo credit: World Resources Institute Staff Al Gore talked about the failing auto industry in USA, “clean coal” and the environmental work being done in China in a recent interview with Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. In the interview Gore said that …

• Obama on 60 Minutes: “We go from shock to trance and that has to be broken”

  In his first interview since the election Barack Obama talked with 60 Minutes about the economy, energy and about the failing auto industry in USA. In the interview Obama said that “the challenges that we’re confronting are enormous” and many, …