Ian Angus's Blog, page 162

Corporate giants reap billions from hunger

The world's farms produce more than enough feed everyone well, but big business control of the food system condemns hundreds of millions to constant hunger, and starves 2.5 million children to death every year.

Spell it out: No fracking!

Illawarra, Australia: 3000 activists build a huge human sign

Editors resign from leading environment journal

Statement of collective withdrawal, protesting "a gross violation of academic freedom, scholarly standards, scientific responsibility, and business ethics."

UK activists expose Canada’s tarred reputation

Environment Minister Peter Kent gets an unexpected welcome in London

Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty

An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture.

Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty

An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture.

The biggest mass poisoning in history

77 million Bangladeshis have been drinking arsenic-affected water for up to 40 years. The arsenic is naturally occurring, but the disaster has a social cause.

Would you swim in a tar sand pit?

What if they pretend it's a lake?

Recommended reading, 10

Has global warming stopped? ... Seymour and Munckton on Venezuela's election ... US ethanol fuels global food crisis ... U.S. govt report says fracking is reckless

‘For a class struggle approach to climate change and energy transition’

South African Metalworkers Union: "Reducing global warming requires fundamental restructuring of the capitalist system. At the centre of such restructuring is the question of who owns the means of energy production, transmission, distribution and consumption."