climate change

Climate justice and the prospect of power

 

 A balance sheet of the movement to block the cross-Toronto ‘Line 9’ pipeline project by John Riddell. With notes on the meaning of “climate justice” and the relationship of socialism to social movements.
From the tar sands to ‘green jobs’?
 Work and ecological justice
By Greg Albo and Lilian Yap July 29, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project -- The ecological and social implications of climate change have – or should – become a central parameter for all discussions of work and capitalism.
John Bellamy Foster: The anthropocene and Marxism today
July 24, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal v
Ian Angus on the climate crisis: ‘We are NOT all in this together’
June 2, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Climate & Capitalism, a shorter version also appeared in Green Left Weekly — Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus recently completed a three-week tour of Australia, organized by the Socialist Alliance and Links to introduce his new book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System. He gave this talk, which draws on material in Chapter 11, at forums in Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane and Newcastle.
Facing the Anthropocene: talk and book launch by Ian Angus
‘Facing the Anthropocene’: We have no alternative but to fight the forces destroying our world
Christopher Wright speaking at the global launch of Ian Angus' Facing the Ant
Explaining the Anthropocene: Ian Angus on how human activity is transforming the entire planet
May 6, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Review -- Human activity has transformed the Earth, accelerating climate change in just a few decades. Author Ian Angus talks to Socialist Review about facing up to the new reality. Angus will be one of the keynote speakers at Socialism for the 21st century: Moving beyond capitalism, learning from global struggles being held in Sydney on May 13-15.
Naomi Klein-inspired 'Leap Manifesto' shakes up Canadian left

Canada: Leap

The real population problem is too many capitalists
“There are too many coal barons, too many oil tycoons, too many politicians who are completely tied to the fossil fuel industry, too many vested interests that don’t want change,” argues Simon Butler. Radio Adelaide interview with Simon Butler.April 4, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal via Climate & Capitalism -- Simon Butler is a member of the Socialist Alliance in Sydney, Australia, a regular contributor to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal and co-author, with Ian Angus, of Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011). He was interviewed by Des Lawrence on Radio Adelaide, on March 20, 2016.
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to say: How the broad climate movement has failed us

Greenpeace activists during a protest in Paris at the COP21 United Nations climate change

The Tragedies of the Global Commons and the Global Working Class: Reflections on the Papal Encyclical

Naomi Klein: 'Now is not the time for small steps. Now is the time for boldness'
Naomi Klein
 
 

Speech given by Naomi Klein (pictured) on September 5 to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.