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Deficit hawks try to scare us about the debt we’re leaving. That’s economic nonsense – unlike the costs of global warming
It is remarkable how efforts to reduce the government deficit/debt are often portrayed as a generational issue, while efforts to reduce global warming are almost never framed in this way. This contrast is striking because [...]

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Una tarea de la Convención Marco sobre Cambio Climático de Naciones Unidas, que en la actualidad está teniendo lugar en Durban, Sudáfrica, es extender las decisiones políticas previas, limitadas en alcance y solamente parcialmente aplicadas.
Estas decisiones se remontan a la Convención de 1992 de la ONU y al Protocolo de Kyoto de 1997, al que [...]

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A task of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, now under way in Durban, South Africa, is to extend earlier policy decisions that were limited in scope and only partially implemented.
These decisions trace back to the U.N. Convention of 1992 and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which the U.S. refused to join. The [...]

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The most important piece of news yesterday, this week, this month, and this year was a new set of statistics released yesterday by the Global Carbon Project. It showed that carbon emissions from our planet had increased 5.9 percent between 2009 and 2010. In fact, it was arguably among the most important pieces of data [...]

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Comenzó este lunes (28), en Durban, Sudáfrica, la 17ª Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambios Climáticos (COP 17). El encuentro de los países de la ONU es considerado definitivo para las negociaciones climáticas, por un lado porque el Protocolo de Kioto vence al final del próximo año y por otro porque el planeta está [...]

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Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop
Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 election, which may effectively kill the project, makes it clear that [...]

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Están en disputa dos proyectos en nuestro continente, que se excluyen recíprocamente: El de las políticas “desarrollistas” y el proyecto indígena de defensa de la Madre Tierra (Pachamama).
El Desarrollismo
El criterio fundamentalmente eurocéntrico de “Desarrollo”, en realidad encubre la voracidad de las grandes empresas capitalistas multinacionales por acumular cada vez más dinero. Saben [...]

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Inside the growing movement to shut down the environmentally devastating tar-sands project
Let’s get the jail part out of the way right at the start. Central Cell Block in Washington, D.C., is exactly as much fun as it sounds like. In fact, the entire process of being jailed unfolded more or less as any observer of, [...]

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Dear Friends,
This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age—it’s serious stuff.
The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested.

The full version goes [...]

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La idea de extender el cultivo de los agrocombustibles en el mundo y particularmente en los países del Sur es desastrosa. Ella forma parte de una perspectiva global de solución a la crisis energética. En los próximos 50 años tendremos que cambiar de ciclo energético, pasando de la energía fósil, que [...]

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