Ian Angus's Blog, page 165

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Conquering a new popular hegemony ... Victories in Quebec ... Costs of fracking ... Return of the Malthusians ... David Harvey's Rebel Cities

Climate change vs food security: a bleak future for the poor

For developing countries, a future of more frequent and intense extreme weather, reducing food availability and raising prices, means a downward spiral of worsening food insecurity and deepening poverty.

Carbon trade markets collapsing

Carbon trading was supposed to save the climate, but it's all hot air

The Great White North isn’t green

Canada and climate change by the numbers

A nuanced analysis of China’s environmental crises

Judith Shapiro has laid out well the enormous environmental challenges facing the people of China If there is to be a sustainable future, they will have to be at the forefront of fighting for it.

Counterfire review of Too Many People?

Elaine Graham-Leigh: "In Too Many People?, Angus and Butler set out a clear argument for how the populationist ideology is false. They provide an effective introduction to how the populationist ideology has enabled concern for the environment to be mobilised by the right.

WE’RE TAKING A BREAK

Climate & Capitalism will resume its regular publishing schedule on or about October 1. In the meantime, here are ...

Pipelines: More lies told by lying liars

You can't believe anything Enbridge says

Behind Bolivia’s nationalization of Canadian mine

Morales' action is a victory for local social movements fighting corporate violence. and a step towards ending 500 years of foreign powers stripping the country of its natural resources.

Call for papers on capitalism and ecological crisis

The Review of Radical Political Economics is going to publish a special issue on “Political Economy of Sustainable Development.”