Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road to ecological disaster? Will shared resources always be misused and overused? Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road to ecological disaster? Is privatization the...
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The People’s Dialogue Declaration on the Green Economy and in defence of mother earth and the commons, Johannesburg 7 May 2012
The People’s Dialogue, a network representing millions of African and Latin Americans organised in movements of rural women, small scale farmers, peasants, workers, feminist and research formations, is mindful that the discussion on the green economy takes place at...
After the failure of the Green Economy
10 Theses of a critique of the Green Economy Working Group ‘ societal relationships with nature ’ (GesNat) of the Federal Coordination of Internationalismus (Bundeskoordination Internationalismus – BUKO ) It used to be called sustainability, but today it is the ‘...
We need a system change to solve climate change by Ian Rappel
Twenty years since the Rio Earth Summit, Ian Rappel looks at the growing ecological crisis and how we can rekindle resistance. It's that time of the decade again. In June we will see the world's attention focus upon another United Nations-sponsored international...
Disempowering Women through the Green Economy | by Clarissa Militante
“The Future We Want,” the text being discussed by governments for Rio+20, promotes rhetoric of empowering women but in reality, it not only disempowers them further, it also gives more rights and access to corporations. The basic step towards achieving women...
Is there an Ecological Marxism? | by Elmar Altvater
(Lecture at the Virtual University of CLACSO – Consejo Latinoamericano de las ciencias sociales,)In this lecture I try to show that and how the concept of societal relations of man to nature based on Marxian categories can be used for a better understanding of...
The too-many-people myth | by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
As the number of humans on the planet reaches 7 billion, Ian Angus and Simon Butler, authors of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis, look at the persistent idea that overpopulation is the major cause of environmental destruction. The...
What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1% ? | by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% This article, published today on the environmental website...
What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1% ? | by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% This article, published today on the environmental website...




