Ian Angus's Blog, page 160

East and west, monster storms mainly kill the poor

In every country, the ravages of climate change fall overwhelming on the poor. The people who grow the world's food are the ones who starve in the aftermath of hurricanes and typhoons

Corporations steal farmland while farmers starve

Most land grabs occur in the world’s most food-insecure countries. Profit-driven agriculture means more food for the wealthy and well-fed, and less for the poor and hungry

How to fight climate change and rebuild a stricken city

Real answers will only come from the people, when we manage to organize and fight for the things we need through a radical change in social power

Weekend reading, 12

Movement building ... Contaminated culture ... Daryl Hannah on Big Energy ... Anti-tar-sands movement ... BusinessWeek on warming ... Overfishing ... Population debate ... New Barbara Kingsolver novel

Maps pictured Sandy’s devastation – five years ago

Maps published in 2007 provide an uncanny prediction of what transpired Monday night

Environmental journal editors reply to publisher

We regard all of these statements by Sage to be untruths, either deliberate falsehoods or grossly misleading. Sage is putting its own profits before academic freedom.

50 years of Silent Spring

Silent Spring helped lay the basis for a radical ecological critique of capitalism. Half a century after first publication it's a book that has never been so important.

Frankenstorms, infrastructure, and billionnaire condos

Sandy causes a minor housing problem for the ultra-rich

A reactionary ‘skeptic’ takes his best shot … and misses

Britain's leading Conservative newspaper fires a feeble broadside at Climate & Capitalism

Frankenstorms and climate change: How the 1% created a monster

To slow the monster of runaway, fossil-fueled capitalism that is creating Frankenstorms and much more ecological and social devastation, we need a vision for a completely different social system.