Ian Angus's Blog, page 155

Vertical farming: Another ‘solution’ that won’t work

Building factory farms in urban skyscrapers is promoted as a way to fix our broken food system. Despite the good intentions of its advocates, it's a fantasy, an unrealistic techno-fix that can only divert attention from the need for real change.

Chasing Ice: A must-see film

Incredible photography, undeniable evidence of climate change

How First Nations organized against tar sands pipelines

Coastal First Nations leader explains how they won the support of 80% of British Columbians for the indigenous peoples' campaign against Enbrodge's pipeline plans

Population, consumption, and rectangles

Can elementary geometry explain environmental problems? Actually, no.

Climate disaster CAN be prevented

Practical, affordable solutions exist, but the necessary resources won't be mobilized so long as corporations, media barons and generals make all the big decisions.

Postmodern meets the class struggle, illustrated

Stop complaining, everything is relative ...

The new fight over who owns the earth

Book review: 'Landgrabbers' offers a bleak picture of land grabs by corporations for agriculture or resource exploitation and equally appalling 'green grabs' by conservationists

Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!

"We did not come here to turn the climate into a business, or to protect businesses of them who want to continue aggravating the climate crisis, destroying Mother Earth. We came here to protect the future of humanity."

Pipeline politics: Can popular protest stop the tar sands leviathan?

Supported by the government and the opposition parties, Enbridge is pushing ahead with plans to pipe toxic bitumen through Ontario. First Nations and environmentalists are trying to mobilize public opposition.

Via Campesina: UN climate talks achieve nothing, promote false capitalist solutions

The international peasant movement denounces the use of the climate negotiations to legitimize business as usual at the expense of humanity and the planet, and rejects false capitalist solutions that will only worsen the climate and food crises.