Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

• Naomi Klein: Our societies are addicted to risk

  Naomi Klein, the well-known Canadian journalist and social activist who is the author of books such as the highly acclaimed “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism“, recently held a TED Talk about our addiction to risks (see video …

• 2010 might be the hottest year ever recorded in human history

  Climate institutions and scientists are warning that 2010 might end up as one of the hottest years ever recorded in human history. According to new data from the US National Snow and Ice Centre Data Centre (NSIDC)arctic sea ice levels …

• Ecological unequal exchange is helping Europe maintain its leading role, greenhouse gases and overconsumption

  “To secure future oil imports USA is now using “force to reassert dominance” via “state terror and coercion” in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Ecological unequal exchange, or the zero-sum model, can help us understand many things about the world’s international trade, …

• Climate Racist White Australia threatens Developing World with Climate Genocide

  “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 …

• Obama’s 6 months of failure on Carbon, War & Gaza

  Photo credit: jurvetson Top scientists and economists tell us that Carbon Trading (Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS) proposals are dangerous, fraudulent Ponzi schemes and that genuine, non-manipulatable, equitable Carbon Taxes are urgently required to help stop planet-threatening carbon burning. [1]. 16 …

• Genocide-denying, holocaust-denying Australia commits to Climate Genocide

  Last week Australia essentially committed itself to Climate Genocide – but the term has not been used and indeed is largely excluded from any mention in public discourse in Australia. The extreme right wing, pro-coal, pro-war Rudd Labor Australian Government …

• 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 …

• Can Al Gore put pressure on the climate issue during the USA 08 election?

  Do you remember, when Al Gore said he would do everything in his powers to influence the American people and politicians to value the climate issue much higher, placing it among the other top issues that would be heatedly discussed …