Peter Sinclair discusses how the big tobacco lobby methods are being employed by climate change deniers and the rising sea levels caused by melting glaciers. -
Jeremy Brecher , Dec 2013 "Based on the Justinian Code’s protection of res communes, governments around the world have long served as trustees for rights held in common by the people...
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The first edition of REthinking Energy, the flagship series from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), analyses the transformation of the global power sector while reviewing progress in the transition to a sustainable energy future. An alignment of economic forces, global population growth, the threat of climate change and rapid technological advances has set in motion a transformation of the global energy system. A new system based on renewables would enhance energy access and security, create jobs and safeguard health and the environment, IRENA’s report argues.
17.9.14 Par La Voix de la Russie | Skyguards, qui a tenu à Bruxelles le 8 et 9 avril 2013 un débat (intitulé Au-delà des théories sur la modification climatique – la société civile contre la géo-ingénierie) sur la géo-ingénierie répandant par des épandages quotidiens des agents chimiques dans le ciel, attend de passer à la commission des pétitions. Du 18 au 21 août a eu lieu à Berlin une conférence sur la géo-ingénierie et le climat. Josefina Fraile de Skyguards, qui était à Berlin, témoigne de la volonté des experts du climat d'introduire de manière durable le contrôle du climat par les épandages dans le ciel. Josefina Fraile Martin nous parle de ces nouveaux nuages qui nous sont devenus familiers dans notre ciel et qui n'existaient pas dans notre enfance.
Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:25 By Quincy Saul, Truthout: "No target, no demands, no timing, no unity, no history and no integrity amounts to one thing: No politics. The whole will be far less than the sum of its parts. The biggest climate march in history will amount to something less than Al Gore."
Rachel Smolker: "The proliferation of "public-private partnerships" is one of the manifestations of this political and economic reality. These are presented in diplomatic terms as attempts to "bring together" the public and private sectors with civil society, to ensure all "stakeholders" are represented in working toward various goals. Many are either initiated by, or granted a platform in, the UN. One such partnership in particular that was in the limelight at this climate summit was the "Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture." "
Ruddiman’s findings led to the “early anthropogenic hypothesis”. This is the idea that early agriculturalists caused an anomalous reversal in natural declines of atmospheric carbon dioxide 7,000 years ago and methane about 5,000 years ago.
future scarcities, wave of extinctions, supply bottlenecks a tidal wave of unrest the breakdown of social order a tsunami of disaster "In March, for the first time, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper listed “competition and scarcity involving natural resources” as a national security threat on a par with global terrorism, cyberwar, and nuclear proliferation... There was a new phrase embedded in his comments: “resource shocks.” "
Naomi Klein in Common Dreams 2 May: "Now it turns out that some green groups are literally part owners of the industry causing the crisis they are purportedly trying to solve. And the money the green groups have to play with is serious. The Nature Conservancy, for instance, has $1.4 billion in publicly traded securities, and boasts that its piggybank is “among the 100 largest endowments in the country.” The Wildlife Conservation Society has a $377 million endowment, while the endowment of the World Wildlife Fund-US (WWF-US) is worth $195 million."
Cory Morningstar: "As surreal as it is, the so-called climate movement has sabotaged any chance of mitigating a full scale global ecological collapse, having instead cleared the way for corporate profiteering, deforestation, fund-raising and full-out omnicide. Collectively, this faction of the 1% values their privilege more than life itself. "