Global warming is upon us and, without question, immediate action needs to be taken. But should we be asking ourselves who might stand to profit from this moment of crisis? In an essay prepared for the COP 15 climate meeting, historian Iain Boal addresses the perils of catastrophism and green capitalism.
Ted Nace, Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal CoalSwarm, 2009
We all know that without stopping the production of coal, there is no way to significantly slow global warming. Ted Nace tells the little known story of the incredibly successful campaign to stop the construction of new coal plants in the US -- derailing 109 proposed plants -- organized not by the big environmental organizations but by many disparate rural groups.
The UN climate summit in Copenhagen is over and, as many critics predicted, nothing good came out of it. Nothing, that is, except for the coalescence of a global activist movement for climate justice. George Monbiot, Tadzio Mueller, and Andre Pugsy speak at the activist counter-summit in Copenhagen, the Klimaforum, about capitalism, the political ecology of climate change, and the fallacies of "peak coal."
As the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen enters its final days, what has it wrought? Brendan Cummings reports from Copenhagen about false solutions and promising directions for halting global warming, including through the regulatory mechanisms of the Clean Air Act, while Patrick Bond talks about the flowering of a new global movement against climate change.
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