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Climate Racist White Australia threatens Developing World with Climate Genocide

1 September, 2009

“Pro-coal, pro-pollution Australia is essentially committed to business-as–usual (BAU) in the face of the climate emergency and to maintaining its world-leading per capita GHG pollution position.” Australia has had a notorious history of imposing invasion, occupation, holocaust and genocide on … Continue reading

Penn & Teller claims organic food is “bullshit”, fails to mention that their expert is paid by Monsanto

5 August, 2009

Penn Jillette and Teller, from the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! TV show, calls in the latest episode organic food for “bullshit” (see video below). Penn and Teller’s main point why organic food is “bullshit” is simply because it “might mean … Continue reading

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Overpopulation is not the problem – overconsumption by the rich few is

14 July, 2009

I often hear people saying that overpopulation is the main problem to our environmental and ecological problems. Some people even claim that it’s responsible for global warming. I also agreed with this idea before. But after reading more about the … Continue reading

Bill Maher takes on Obama on climate change: “This isn’t what I voted for”

15 June, 2009

“This is not what I voted for,” Bill Maher said on his HBO show Friday night, arguing that Barack Obama has maintained his personal popularity but failed to make real progress on climate change, the economy and health care in … Continue reading

Tamara Stark: Don’t blame China!

5 May, 2009

Photo credit: MK Media Productions Tamara Stark, Communications Director at Greenpeace in the UK, writes this spot on blog post about the environmental “China bashing” in the international media. “Having spent the last three years living in China, I and … Continue reading

Global warming will render half of world’s inhabited areas unliveable

25 March, 2009

Photo credit: suburbanbloke Man-made climate change will render half of the world’s inhabited areas unliveable. And we humans will not be able to adapt to a warmer climate as good as previously thought, a US climate expert warned during a … Continue reading

China is also suffering from severe droughts

6 February, 2009

Photo credit: suburbanbloke It’s not just Argentina, Australia and California who faces severe droughts and heatwaves. BBC reports that China has declared a drought emergency in northern and central parts of the country. Around four million people are suffering from … Continue reading

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

19 January, 2009

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 … Continue reading

Gore: The whole auto industry needs to be transformed

3 December, 2008

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 … Continue reading

Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch ‘unsustainable’ lifestyles

10 November, 2008

Photo credit: World Economic Forum During a meeting, with focus on development and transfer of technology that can help tackle climate change, in Beijing with 76 nations attending the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that “developed countries have a responsibility … Continue reading

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