The following two Readers are a summarization of the key messages found in Global Health Watch 3, PHM’s alternative flagship publication that analyzes the current world health situation. 1. Our collective destiny is not in our hands. It is in the hands of a handful of...
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Can capitalism survive the end of growth? | by Cy Gonick
Richard Heinberg. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality New Society Publishers, 2011 Publisher & Coordinating Editor of Canadian Dimension Industrialized economies have grown most years since the mid-19th century. Globally, economic output per...
At Rio+20: Values versus prices | by Patrick Bond
[RIO DE JANEIRO, JUNE 18, 2012] Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to Green Economy rhetoric looms as a potential saviour for footloose financial capital, and is also enormously welcome to those corporations panicking at market chaos in the...
At the Crossroads between Green economy and rights of Nature | by Pablo Solón
Almost one thousand dolphins are lying dead on the beach. Another five thousand pelicans have also been found dead. What is the cause of this massacre? There are different explanations. Some argue that it was the offshore oil exploration while others say that these...
On the origins of green liberalism | by Ted Steinberg
Can Capitalism save the planet? Ted Steinberg is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. This article was originally published in Radical History Review 107 (Spring 2010), and is reposted here...
What is at stake at Rio+20 | by The International Coordination Group (CG) of the People’s Summit for social and environmental justice
For Unity and Mobilization of peoples For Life and Commons, social and environmental Justice Against Commodification of Nature and « Green economy One month before the United Nations Conference Rio+20, peoples of the world don’t see any positive advances in the...
Statement: A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO TO ”GREEN ECONOMY”
To The Swedish Government and all participants at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. From the Gothenburg Conference: Celebrate! Resist! Transform! for environmental justice and just transition 18th to 20th of May 2012 A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO...
RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy | by Olivier Hoedeman
Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012. In less than six months, the UN summit in Rio de Janeiro will take place ( 20-22 June 2012), twenty years after the historic Earth...
The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing | by Edgardo Lander
I. The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992: sustainable development In 1983, when the Earth’s ecological crisis was becoming ever more apparent, the United Nations General Assembly decided to create an international commission (the World Commission on Environment...

