Kurt Cobb

Climate scientists get tough – Nov 21

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– Want to Stand Up for Climate Science? We’re Doing It
– US Researchers Fight to Reclaim Climate Science Message
– Climate Change: Science’s Fresh Fight to Win Over the Sceptics
– In Canada It’s a Gov’t Versus Its People on Climate Change
– Stuart Stanifor on the Future of Drought
– The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water-

There Will Be Fuel? An Open Letter to the New York Times

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Rarely is the public treated to such inaccurate, misleading and unhelpful “journalism” as in “There will be fuel” by New York Times correspondent, Clifford Krauss (New York Times, November 17, 2010) , even in this era of political spin and smoke and mirrors surrounding energy. The facts of the matter are that no nation on earth is more dependent on imported oil than the U.S

Energy – Nov 21

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– BBC: Oil shock warning to government from UK business
– Protect us from peak oil, says Richard Branson (and others)
– Big names warn of danger of UK’s ‘addiction’ to oil
– Steve LeVine: Peak or no peak?
– Ken Deffeyes: IEA on Board, Sort Of
– IHS CERA study says oilpatch costs rising

A strategy to reverse overshoot and achieve sustainable well-being

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In order for humankind to resolve its ecological predicament, capitalism must be historically superseded. People who are aware of the system’s growth compulsion and the environmental destruction that results may well suspect that this statement is true. But carrying this train of thought forward is difficult. Why? Because currently the only well-known model for moving beyond capitalism is that of the socialist tradition. This model, however, arose in the context of class struggles rather than overshoot, and in my view it incorporates several grave errors. I therefore believe that an alternative model for the post-capitalist transition must be developed.

G20 pushes business as usual, small farmers demand system change

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The G20’s agenda is driven by corporate capital as evidenced by the G20 Seoul Business Summit where around 120 top global CEO’s met with G20 leaders to discuss corporate priorities. In contrast, civil society and social movement representatives voicing people’s demands and priorities were not allowed into Korea. The Korean government effectively prevented the democratic participation of civil society and social movement representatives from abroad by denying visas and by forcibly deporting others.