environmental justice

How much opportunity do individuals have to affect climate change?

Edzell — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 22:00:06 +0000

This post elsewhere by Martin N.....

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It's amazing how quickly they can greenwash that dirty oil money when the opportunity presents itself

......prompts me to ponder how I can live in reasonable comfort, within existing local conditions, while doing anthing significant to ameliorate climate change or its potential consequences.

The relevance of the above quote to my own existence is the fact that although I declare my belief that change is happening and - on the precautionary principle - we should be trying to slow/stop it, nevertheless I'm still living pretty much as I always have and don't see much other option. I'm definitely not keen on living a Spartan existence just to make a tiny irrelevant difference in the "Grand scheme."

Toll roads into Toronto... Urban... Suburban... Rural... sprawl

Ward — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:36:15 +0000

Who needs the folks from the liberal urban centers?

Who needs the folks from the hinterland?

Build That Wall!

Pipeline leak: Alabama, Georgia declare state of emergency

Unionist — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:12:26 +0000

Materialist Ecology has a great protagonist in John Bellamy Foster

ikosmos — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:06:13 +0000

JBF has a new book, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique, in which he defends 2nd generation eco-socialists from the persistent attacks and mis-conceptions of 1st generation eco-socialists.

The summary of Marxist Ecology and its insights are excellently outlined in the following interview

INTERVIEW: JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER Marx and the Earth: Why we wrote an ‘anti-critique’

Quote:

You write that there is a “complex materialist ecology at the root of classical Marxism.” What are the basic and most important insights of Marx and Engels regarding the destruction of nature in capitalism?

No More Climate Change

Aristotleded24 — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:38:02 +0000

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Weather

NorthReport — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:39:16 +0000

Water, water, and more water news.

quizzical — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:18:16 +0000

for all things water related.

COP21 climate demonstrations banned after attacks

lagatta — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:58:52 +0000

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/cop21-climate-marches-paris...

Climate campaigners vow to demonstrate in other ways, but this is a huge blow.

Proposed Spring Bear Hunt for Ontario

Chezhank — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:52:32 +0000

Curious to hear what people think of having the spring bear hunt in Ontario reinstated. http://www.tbnewswatch.com/News/376803/Spring_bear_hunt_reinstated_acros... The spring hunt was canceled in 1999 as cubs could be orphaned. The Minister of Natural Resources Bill Mauro is proposing to bring it back for a five year trial. We have the bears come through our yard ocassionally and other than steal some apples they are really timid animals. The public can post comments on the proposed spring bear hunt on the Environmental Registry @ http://goo.gl/cXTkUr .

Report: Obama Administration Will Reject The Keystone XL Pipeline

Michael Stewart — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:13:05 +0000

via Mother Jones

the film that environmental organizations don't want you to see!

mmphosis — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:14:14 +0000

Defending Nature

Doug Woodard — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:03:25 +0000

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La problematique; the whole mess

Doug Woodard — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:51:29 +0000

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Parks and Ecological Reserves

Doug Woodard — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:52:53 +0000

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Pollution

Doug Woodard — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:03:58 +0000

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