Ian Angus's Blog, page 171

A population bomber is outraged

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” -Bertrand Russell

Shocked and appalled

Part of the price one pays for being an editor is having to read occasional letters from crackpots.

Recommended reading, 2

Our continuing and highly selective listing of articles, reports, and books for green lefts and left greens

Get the frack out of here!

Hydraulic fracturing, sure, it's making you a buck,

While the rest of us get sick and die and you just say “tough luck.”

Food plan will feed corporate hunger

Contrary to Australian government claims, the proposed food plan is a recipe for increasing vulnerability, lack of resilience and heightened inequality in our food system.

Enbridge, illustrated

Gas or bitumen or ... (oops!)

McKibben’s climate math is too narrow and too broad

McKibben is right to point to the fossil fuel industry as an enemy, but his argument is both too narrow and too broad. He ignores the role of the U.S. military, and fails to focus his fire on the dirtiest fuels.

Urgent action needed to stop torture of Pakistan climate change prisoners

Baba Jan and Iftikhar Hussain are being held and tortured by Pakistan police, for the crime of aiding flood-stricken farmers. Your solidarity with these brave political prisoners of the global climate change crisis is urgently needed now.

Video: “What is socialism?” in 100 seconds

Participants in the July 2012 national conference of the Australian youth organization Resistance explain what socialism means to them

We can’t put a price on nature

The executive director of Food & Water Watch says advocates of the 'green economy' are promoting the same old dirty economy under a new banner