Archive for 'Global Warming'
Marxism: the planet matters
Posted by John, April 12th, 2013 - under Ecosocialism, Global Warming, Green Left Weekly, Marxism, Socialism.
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If Marxism is to live up to its own maxim as a theory to not merely interpret the world but to change it, then it must include strong ecological theory and practice. The stakes are high. We still have a world to win — but we also have a world to lose.
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Bush fires, climate change and the community of hope
Posted by John, January 13th, 2013 - under Barry O'Farrell, Bushfires, Community, Cooperation, Global Warming, Global carbon project, Revolution, Socialism, Socialism from below, Workers, Workers' councils, Working class.
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In the reality of community that the bushfires have bought out in us lies our hope for the future; in the working class and its power to turn society on its head lies the reality of the realisation of a future with hope.
A car industry or real action to address climate change?
Posted by John, January 15th, 2012 - under Climate change, Ecological crisis, Electric cars, Environment, Global Warming, Renewable energy, Subsidies.
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Imagine the car plants in Australia being geared up for production to address climate change. They could produce buses for mass public transport, light rail vehicles, high speed rail and trains, electric cars, solar and wind farms…
Is the choice for humanity socialism or environmental barbarism?
Posted by John, August 1st, 2011 - under Capitalism, Climate change, Competition, Environment, Environmental barbarism, Global Warming, Profits, Socialism.
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Capitalism’s manic drive for profit and its frenzied competition deny the possibility of addressing climate change in any real and concerted way. Only the democratic organisation of society and production to satisfy human need – socialism – can do that.
The Queensland floods, community and profit
Posted by John, January 13th, 2011 - under Capitalism, Classes, Climate change, Global Warming, The floods.
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The response of the rest of the Australian community to the Queensland floods has been magnificent. Our hearts and wallets have gone out to the people affected. More importantly members of the local community have helped each other, looked after each other, cared for each other. The community response to the Queensland floods and our sense [...]
Hazelwood must be closed
Posted by John, November 3rd, 2010 - under Global Warming, Hazelwood, Polluters.
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The environmental case for shutting down the Hazelwood power station is overwhelming. This brown-coal fired plant in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley produces 15 per cent of the state’s total carbon emissions, and it is the biggest carbon emitting facility in Australia. At 2005 report by the World Wildlife Fund listed Hazelwood as the most carbon intensive [...]
A citizens’ dissembly?
Posted by John, July 24th, 2010 - under Citizens' assembly, Class struggle, Climate change, Global Warming, Julia Gillard, Mining companies, Mining maggots, Tony Abbott.
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The citizens’ assembly is a Rudd like trick to give the impression of doing something when not actually doing anything at all on climate change. Remember the 2020 summit?
Memo to the environmental racists: Australia is not full
Posted by John, June 29th, 2010 - under Global Warming, Population, Poverty, Racism, Starvation.
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The only thing Australia is full of is environmental racists and their cousins – the Hansonite racists.
Stop work to stop the bosses’ war on the environment
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2009 - under Civil disobedience, Climate change, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, The Greens.
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We must turn the world upside down until the polluters and their politicians back down and begin the urgent task of moving to a renewable energy economy and creating hundreds of thousands of high wage green jobs for those displaced by the end of killer coal.
Civil disobedience and climate change
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2009 - under Civil disobedience, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Global Warming.
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Jonathon Hari in the Independent and re-printed in today’s Canberra Times calls for mass civil disobedience to stop global warming. He finishes by saying: ‘Copenhagen had one value, and one value alone. It has shown us that if we don’t act in our own self-defence now, nobody else will.’ As anyone who has read my [...]