Tag: Green energy
Jonathan Moylan, stunts, the working class and fighting climate change
Posted by John, January 11th, 2013 - under Jonathan Moylan.
Tags: Climate change, Coal, Global warmng, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
Comments: 2
Stunts like Moylan’s will draw attention to the issues at least momentarily and I defend his actions. But to really address climate change, to stop the mining of fossil fuels and to move rapidly to a totally renewable energy society requires the working class entering on to the stage of history and overthrowing the impediment to real change – capitalism. The working class has to be our focus for fundamental change.
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Climate change: the snake oil salesmen of capitalism battle it out
Posted by John, February 3rd, 2010 - under Labor Party, The Liberals.
Tags: Cap and trade, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, Climate change deniers, Green energy, Greenhouse gases
Comments: 3
Tony Abbott has concocted a climate change ‘direct-action’ plan that should appeal to every denier. Like Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme it pretends to do something while refusing to attack the big polluters. Abbott’s ‘plan’ doesn’t stop CO2 emissions; it encourages them. According to Government figures (suspect, but likely to have some truth in them), Abbott’s scheme will […]
Stop work to stop the bosses’ war on the environment
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2009 - under The Greens.
Tags: Civil disobedience, Climate change, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: 3
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.
Green jobs: not uranium and bombs
Posted by Bill, July 18th, 2009 - under Nuclear power, Peter Garrett, Uranium mining.
Tags: Australian Workers Union, Big business, BLF, Cap and trade, Capitalism, CFMEU, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, Global Warming, Green bans, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: 3
Union green bans on environmentally suspect developments show the potential the working class has to create a green future and green jobs.
Penny Wong: an insult to demonstrators and intelligence
Posted by Bill, June 14th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Penny Wong, Resistance, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Greens, The Left.
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, CPRS, Demonstrations, Emissions Trading Scheme, Fighting back, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
Comments: 2
On Saturday we demonstrated across Australia to reject the Rudd Government’s climate change ‘response’, which is a crime against present and future generations.
Why bailing out General Motors could help save the environment
Posted by Bill, June 14th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Capitalism, Environment, General Motors, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: none
The same skills that make the gas guzzling SUVs can be used to make wind turbines, solar panels and hybrid buses.
Is this 1929 or 1989, or both?
Posted by Leonie, April 17th, 2009 - under Jobs, Living standards, Marxism 2009, Occupations, Qantas, Resistance, Revolution, sackings, Strikes, The Depression, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Democracy, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Europe, Fighting back, Great Recession, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: none
Every strike contains the seeds of revolution. Therein lies our hope and our future.
Follow the Maldives Kevin
Posted by John, March 17th, 2009 - under Labor Party, The Maldives.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics, Big business, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
Comments: 6
The Maldives is going carbon neutral. Force Rudd, the Mister Magoo of climate change, to follow them and lead the developed world.
Jobs and posting
Posted by John, March 17th, 2009 - under Jobs, Law.
Tags: Blogging, Environment, Environmental law, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
Comments: none
I have just accepted a part time job offer working on environmental law. I am pretty excited by the prospect of learning about a whole new area of policy and law. For the blog it means my posts might be slightly less frequent (although I love doing this so much I might just end up […]
The spectre of unemployment
Posted by John, March 16th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, Part time work, Resistance, The Great Recession, unemployment.
Tags: ALP, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Climate change, Economics, Global Warming, Great Recession, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: 4
A spectre is haunting Australia; the spectre of unemployment. Last month in Australia unemployment went up from 4.8 percent to 5.2 per cent. There are now 590,000 unemployed. The rate of unemployment among 15 to 19 year olds looking for full time work is a little under 24 per cent. There will be at a minimum […]