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European Union's 2010 greenhouse gas emissions rise of 2.4% blamed on cold winter and economic recovery in some areas Greenhouse gas emissions for the European Union increased in 2010, despite the economic recession and policies intended to tackle climate change. The...
Faced with an even more complex and deeper crisis, capitalism is launching a fresh attack that combines the old austerity measures with an offensive to create new sources of profit and growth through the “Green Economy” agenda. No to the Green Economy I. A New Phase...
Correction (February 3, 2010)--Passage on Himalayan glaciers in paragraph 5 of article originally published January 2010. This article was written for presentation at the Workshop on Marxist Theory and Practice in the World Today, Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and...
‘Let’s put a value on Britain’s ecosystem services’ – the slogan has a nice ring to it. Perhaps we don’t fully understand the value of the wild plants, animals, and natural cycles around us, and if we did, we could appreciate and protect them better.But what is it...
WHAT IS THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT?In the long term, the earth must shed energy into space at the same rate at which it absorbs energy from the sun. Solar energy arrives in the form of shortwavelength radiation. Some of this radiation is reflected away by the earth's...
1. What is climate change?Climate change is a long-term shift in the climate of a specific location, region or planet. The shift is measured by changes in features associated with average weather, such as temperature, wind patterns and precipitation. What most people...
This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on "The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment" organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011. It was based...
The various mechanisms evolved through global negotiations to deal with shared environmental problems, such as climate change, fall short because they are not located within a larger debate on dealing with human well-being and instead focus only on limiting damage....