ver La guerra por el agua by Matt Wade September 26, 2009 BALAWAS, INDIA – Chatan Singh, a farmer in the village of Balawas in Haryana, India, has planted two crops in his fields since June, but both have failed because of the scanty monsoon. A few years ago this would have been unthinkable because tube wells and [...]

versión en español abajo Population growth is not a problem – it’s among those who consume the least. So why isn’t anyone targeting the very rich? by George Monbiot September 28, 2009 It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they [...]

by Miriam Pemberton September 24, 2009 The campaign to salvage the climate bill now has a new buzzword, “climate security,” and a new ally, the Pentagon. Its security planners have been telling reporters that climate change will loom large in the national security strategy they’re working on. The military has begun studying, and taking seriously, the scenarios of [...]

UN leaders should know: climate change is destroying my village in Uganda – flooding our homes and ruining our crops by Constance Okollet September 23, 2009 There are no seasons any more in eastern Uganda. Before, we had two harvests every year, but now there’s no pattern. Floods like we’ve never seen came and swept up everything. It [...]

Greenpeace activists are hanging off a Pittsburgh bridge with a massive banner displaying our message to G20 leaders gathering for tomorrow’s summit. The banner takes the form of stylized “road sign” that warns of the political maneuvering and delay that have put a international climate treaty in jeopardy as the world enters the final stretch [...]

Consumption exceeds Earth’s annual ‘biocapacity’ today amid warnings of dependence on overseas food and energy by Heather Stewart September 25, 2009 Rich consumers are still voraciously gobbling up the world’s resources, despite the worst recession in a generation, with their appetite pushing the planet into “ecological debt” from today, according to a report by think-tank the new economics [...]

Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened by Vandana Shiva September 17, 2009 The science of climate change is now clear, but the politics is very muddy. Historically, the major polluters were the rich, industrialised countries, so it made sense that they should pay the highest price. The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in December 1997, set binding [...]

Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet… And in the Process Sacrifice the World by Jason Mark September 15, 2009 Earth is busted. Like a supercomputer whose elaborate code has developed a few bugs, the core operating systems of the planet are frayed: Ocean populations are collapsing, forests are disappearing, soils have become thin. Perhaps most worrisome, the globe’s atmosphere, the [...]

Pared-down summit will force heads of rich states to listen to those of third world in hope of kickstarting radical action by Suzanne Goldenberg September 20, 2009 The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty [...]

Hay una resistencia real al imperio; no existen muchos sitios de los que pueda decirse lo mismo La esperanza del cambio anunciada por Barack Obama es sólo una ilusión, considera el escritor por David Brooks, Hermann Bellinghausen y Luis Hernández 21 de septiembre, 2009 América Latina es hoy el lugar más estimulante del mundo, dice Noam Chomsky. Hay aquí [...]