Climate Change

29/09/16
Author: 
George Monbiot
 The industrial landscape across the Dee estuary. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.

published in the Guardian 28th Sepetmeber 2016

Do they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments like ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change, haven’t the faintest idea what it means. Either that, or they have no intention of honouring it.

27/09/16
Author: 
Planka.nu

One is not born a motorist, one becomes one.

Planka.nu

Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one's potential for mobility often has to do with one's economic position, but also because a society built on today's mobility paradigm – automobility – directly contributes to growing economic and social differences.

27/09/16
Author: 
Ian Angus

The authors of this book have very little to say about the Anthropocene, the crisis of the Earth System, or the new global epoch, and most of what they do say is misleading or wrong.


I submitted my review of Anthropocene or Capitalocene?” to International Socialist Review in July, but publication was unavoidably delayed until now. These are some thoughts I had after I submitted my manuscript. There’s a link to my review at the end.

Introduction to a critique

27/09/16
Author: 
Ian Angus
Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.
[Editors: to see Angus' slides check out the video of his talk in Australia here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJMjvZaNDJA  But don't miss the interesting questions and answers at the end of the Canadian launch.]
 
Published on Sep 19, 2016

Ian Angus speaks at the Canadian launch of his new book @ SFU Woodward's on September 15th.

26/09/16
Author: 
George Monbiot

There are plenty of brilliant plans for getting us moving without trashing the planet. So why aren’t they happening?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st September 2016

It was a mistake, a monumental, world-class mistake. Cars for everyone was one of the stupidest promises that politicians ever made.

25/09/16
Author: 
Ian Angus
Traffic jam

Human activity has transformed the Earth, accelerating climate change in just a few decades. Author Ian Angus talks to Socialist Review about facing up to the new reality.

Can you explain the concept of the Anthropocene and its importance for understanding the current climate crisis?

25/09/16
Author: 
Nadia Prupis
Global greenhouse gas emissions are not likely to slow down quickly enough to avoid passing the 1.5°C target, scientists said. (Photo: Jamie McCaffrey/flickr/cc)

Meanwhile, new research discovers soil may not be trapping carbon as fast as we hoped

The planet could pass the critical 1.5°C global temperature threshold in a decade—and is already two-thirds of the way to hit that warming limit, climate scientists warned on Thursday.

19/09/16
Author: 
Eleanor Ainge Roy
 Hail has falled in Samoa for the first time since 2011. Photograph: Vaetasi Asiata/Facebook

Meteorologist forced to release satellite images of the storm to convince some locals that the hail wasn’t part of a practical joke

has been hit by a hail storm so rare that it was believed to be a hoax by many of the island’s inhabitants.

The tropical nation of Samoa lies in the Pacific Ocean, where the average temperature at this time of year is 29C.

Category: 
19/09/16
Author: 
Telesur staff
Villagers protest after their land was seized to allow for the expansion of a copper mine in Sagaing Division, March 13, 2013. | Photo: Reuters

The International Criminal Court announced Thursday it will now hold corporate executives and governments legally responsible for environmental crimes.

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