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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results91 Connexions Library10 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 5 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 8 Sources Library Connexions LibraryAcademics Urge Government Climate Action: Sources News Release Article 2009 More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter poi... Arctic Death Rattle Hunziker, Robert Article 2016 The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc thro... As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer Grossman, Elizabeth Article 2016 The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached al... Blueprint for a Green Economy Pearce, David; Markandya, Anil; Barbier, Edward B. Book 1989 A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment. A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris? Thanki, Nathan; Nacpil, Lidy; Rehma, Asad Article 2015 For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate ... Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling Monbiot, George Article 2009 Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, dive... Capitalism is failing the planet Weedall, Gemma Article 2014 If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key featu... The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming  Cummins, Ronnie Article 2014 As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is ... Climate change: It's going to take a revolution rs21 Film 2015 A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it's going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations... Climate Change Solutions The Big Switch: New Internationalist June 2003 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2003 A look at global warming, what it is doing to the world, and what actions are being taken by people to slow it down. Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming Hoggan, James; Littlemore, Richard Book 2009 Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tr... Climate Crisis - The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage Article 2011 We find that Britain and the US - the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - are also the two countries least... Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma Smith, Richard Article 2014 So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse. The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working Monbiot, George Article 2009 The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening. Conned, Carbon offsets stripped bare: New Internationalist July 2006 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2006 Discussion of the myths about carbon offsets, and details of more positive climate change steps to take. Carbon offsetting is exposed as a scam, one that's been sold to the guilt-ridden general public... Connexions Digest: Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1992 Connexions Library: Environment Focus Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use. Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming fillmore, Nick Article 2013 Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about wheth... Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone' Media Lens Article 2015 2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't... A Death Sentence For Africa: The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables Article 2011 Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a glo... A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently Sharma, Devinder Article 2009 A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change Marshall, George Book 2014 A book that tries to understand why people are so prone to deny or ignore the reality of climate change. Doubt is their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health Michaels, David (ed.) Book 2008 Reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitious tactics spawned a multimillion-dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be res... Earning a Profit from Global Warming Dolack, Peter Article 2015 As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. S... The Earthscan Action Handbook Litvinoff, Miles Book 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action. $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster: Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change Prupis, Nadia Article 2014 Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fu... Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Against The Current vol. 125 McGough, John Article 2006 Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, ... The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Kovel, Joel Book 2002 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the de... EnvironmentSources.com Website 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and importa... Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement Foran, John Article 2016 An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement. The Everyday Activist: 365 Ways to Change the World Horton, Michael Book 2006 A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a differenc... Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s Grandia, Kevin and DeMelle, Brendan Article 2016 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state un... Fantasy technology won't stop climate change Angus, Ian Article 2015 Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go. Field Notes from a Catastrophe Kolbert, Elizabeth Book 2006 A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world. Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals Article 2010 Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate cha... The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction Angus, Ian (ed.) Book 2009 A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming. A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest deBuys, William Book 2011 In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages,... Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record: Sources News Release Article 2013 The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet ... The Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet Douthwaite, Richard Book 1992 Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national... The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines Mann, Michael E. Book 2012 Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implie... How green are your ethics? Malik, Kenan Article 2007 The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human... How will we get to an ecological civilization? Williams, Chris Article 2015 Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job. The Ice Melts Into Water: Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media Cromwell, David; Edwards, David Article 2012 Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be ... In Our Backyard: A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide... Trendell-Whittaker, Peggy Book 1992 In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air q... India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action Hanna, Liz Article 2015 As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to... The Inquisition of Climate Science Powell, James Lawrence Book 2011 The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive indu... Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change Hanley, Charles J. Article 2009 Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to C... The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution Tanuro, Daniel Article 2014 Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands: A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole Stainsby, Macdonald Article 2013 The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding. Keep it in the Ground Article 2015 A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world. Keeping the Rabble in Line Chomsky, Noam; Barsamian, David Book 1994 Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy. Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry Kirby, Alex Article 2015 For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground. A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice Russell, Joshua Kahn; D'Arcy, Stephen; Weis, Tony; Black, Toban Book 2014 The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontl... Looking for Trouble Monbiot, George Article 2010 Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can't afford to use existing reserves? The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy Masters, Jeff Article 2009 The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming. Nature, science & power: Questions need to be asked... Riordon, Michael Website 2014 Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines. Nuclear Power: Nuclear's second wind: New Internationalist September 2005 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2005 A look at the return of the use of nuclear power and why. Discussion of the history of the effects of nuclear power in the past. Opinion: It's gettin' hot in here... so take back all your carbon Article 2015 In Africa rapidly rising temperatures foreshadow increased drought, famine and disease. The most vulnerable populations -- of which millions are smallholder farmers -- need solutions, and they need th... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015: Climate Change and Social Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016: Working class organizing Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. I... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016: Workers and Climate Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about th... Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein: Climate, Capitialism and the Left Collins, Craig Article 2014 The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement ac... Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle Salzman, Lorna Article 2009 Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alterna... Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age: New Internationalist November 1998 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1998 Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in Ind... Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense Rennie, John Article 2009 Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone wh... Social justice is the only solution to global warming: The Climate is Ripe for Social Change Satgar, Vishwas Article 2015 South African activist says only an alliance between unions and social justice movements can stop capital from destroying planetary life. 'Stable' NE Greenland ice sheet is melting away Khan, Shfaqat Abbas Article 2014 A new study has found that the NE section of the Greenland ice sheet - thought to be stable due to the extreme cold - has been losing ice since 2006 with increasing speed. And that has huge implicati... Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil Bassey, Nnimmo; Shiva, Vandana Article 2015 We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of co... Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay Engler, Yves; Mugyenyi, Bianca Book 2011 A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction. Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care) Marsden, William Book 2007 As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, ... Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism: Manifesto 2007 Attac France Article 2007 With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity o... This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate Klein, Naomi Book 2014 Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically bette... This Changes Everything Lewis, Avi (director); Klein, Naomi (narrator) Film/Video 2015 Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar S... This Is About Us Monbiot, George Article 2009 The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity. Transition Initiatives Primer Article 2009 A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the ey... The Unpersuadables Monbiot, George Article 2010 In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts. Viva Yasuni! Life vs Big Oil: New Internationalist July 2008 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2008 A look at the Yasuni rainforest in Ecuador and its imminent destruction by oil companies. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment Magdoff, Fred; Foster, John Bellamy Book 2011 A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solel... What's at stake in Copenhagen: The crucial debates at Copenhagen Gilbertson, Tamra; Reyes, Oscar Article 2009 Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoli... Who Speaks for the Climate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change Boykoff, Maxwell T. Book 2011 This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Pro... Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles: Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy McMillan, Stephanie Article 2013 This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported. Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen: Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum Saragih, Henry Article 2009 Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something... Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene? Angus, Ian Article 2015 To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the An... Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven! Bryan, Kim Article 2009 With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round. The World Without Us Weisman, Alan Book 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites350.org 350.org is an international campaign that's building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
Our mission is to inspire the... Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Established in 1960, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nation... Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology CNS is a journal of ecosocialism. We welcome submissions on red-green politics and the anti-globalization movement; environmental history; workplace labor struggles; land/community struggles; politica... Climate Action Network Canada CANCanada - To support & empower Canada's governments private sector, labour & civil society by designing, developing implementing effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at internati... Climate Justice Now! A network of organisations and movements from across the globe committed to the fight for social, ecological and gender justice. Desmogblog.com Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science. A source for accurate, fact based information regarding Global Warming misinformation campaigns.
An overwhelming majority of the world's clima... Friends of the Earth International We are the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 76 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With over 2 million members and supporters aroun... History & Policy History & Policy:
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La Via Campesina We are the international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. We defend the values and the basic int... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryCanadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific' Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments Lukacs, Martin 2012 As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the ... Genetically Modified Crops Can Thrive as the World Warms Kirby, Alex 2016 Genetically engineering photosynthesis in plants could take advantage of rising global temperatures and increased levels of carbon dioxide, US scientists say. They believe this could achieve much high... The Inner Light Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 25 Gendel, Morgan 1992 Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is struck with an energy beam from an alien probe. While minutes pass for the rest of the crew, Picard experiences 40 years as Kamin, a humanoid scientist who... Natural environment Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails Sources News Release 2009 As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the... Science and its enemies Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices Diemer, Ulli 2016 Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t... VOW Women Concerned by Rising Carbon Dioxide Emissions Sources News Release 2015 As members of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace we are extremely concerned about the threat to our future from runaway temperature rise as a result rising carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere. |
