Susan George: We are faced with determined adversaries who care nothing about human rights or climate change. They only want a world in which they can make endless amounts of money using all available resources, no matter what the costs to nature and to human life.
Archive | Corporate polluters
Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
‘Like latter-day wizardry, corporate risk calculations suggest that markets and capital can, not only control the natural world, but somehow anticipate it’
U.S. labor brass to pipeline protestors: Drop Dead!
Conservative AFL-CIO leaders support the Dakota Access pipeline, oppose the Standing Rock Sioux campaign to protect land, people and water.
Unhealthy environments kill 12.6 million a year
An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization.
Flint’s poisoned water and capital’s second contradiction
The politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it’s the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.
Climate scientists: Obama’s emission rules are too little, too late
A year ago, two of the UK’s top climate scientists reviewed the regulations that Obama has now promised to impose. They weren’t impressed …
Peru: International labor solidarity aids fight against polluting, anti-union copper mine
What does it take to stop a transnational corporate giant in its tracks when it threatens workers, farmers and communities? The people of Arequipa, Peru have an answer.
Ecosocialist resources, April 2015
Eleven new articles! Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission.
Corporate greenwashing on Earth Day in New York
Once again, corporate environment-killers presented a festival of greenwashing, where shopping was promoted as a painless way to save the world.
The secret history of pollution and the EPA
In ‘Poison Spring’, an insider documents the culture of fraud and corruption that infests the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and endangers the lives of millions
Ecosocialist resources, 58
Non-stop warming from now on; Choking the oceans with plastic; Leaked IPCC report warns of irreversible impacts; Global warming pause is a myth
Louisiana is drowning, quickly
One of the greatest environmental and economic disasters in U.S. history is rushing toward a catastrophic conclusion. Louisiana is sinking, fast.
China: Mass protests challenge polluters
Resistance to rapid industrialization and encroachment by poisonous industries has led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities.
Plastic Plague
Book Review: ‘Plastic Ocean’ is an important contribution to broad awareness of the ever-growing conflict between our systems of production and the circle of life.
Again and again, capitalism fouls things up
Barry Sheppard: Toxic spills in two West Virginia rivers show that the capitalist system itself is an enemy of the natural environment humanity depends on
How the U.S. exports global warming
While Obama talks of a clean, green future, America’s oil and coal corporations are racing to position the country as the planet’s top dirty-energy dealer.
Corporation polluters make ‘sustainable’ a dirty word
A list of the world’s 100 ‘most sustainable companies’ is packed with firms that profit from trashing the planet and are driving us toward climate disaster.
Elk River: Poisoned for profit
The company that poisoned West Virginia’s drinking water decided that public health was less important than its bottom line, while politicians stood by.
Learning to live in the anthropocene
The Anthropocene epoch requires us to rage against the few anthropods who are making a killing off of the extraction and burning of fossil fuels at the expense of the human race.
Did McGill University whitewash asbestos?
Industry-funded research at one of Canada’s largest universities has been used to cover up the overwhelming scientific evidence that asbestos is deadly