Posts Tagged ‘Venezuela’
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The greatest Astroturf of all time – Ethical oil
If there’s one thing that makes any environmentalists blood boil, its got to be the practice of “greenwashing” where companies try to sell themselves as “green” when they are anything but. Then there’s “astroturfing” where a PR firm in the …
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Alternative summit on environment and people held in Bolivia
Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this year called for an international conference to deal with the structural causes of climate change and to propose “alternative models” for humans to live in harmony with the natural world. The First World People’s …
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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, …
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We must go from capitalism to socialism to tackle climate change, says Hugo Chavez
In an interesting interview during COP15 Amy Goodman from Democracy Now asks Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, about his view of the climate summit in Copenhagen, climate change, USA, and the huge oil reserves in Venezuela. Watch it: “AMY GOODMAN: …
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Watch Hugo Chavez: Capitalism is the way to the destruction of the planet
Yesterday Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, made a passionate and courageous speech at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Chavez criticized President Obama’s “laughable” promise to help climate change and also said that capitalism will destroy our planet. Watch …
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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 …
