Is "New Environmentalism" really forward-looking, or will it simply reinforce and accelerate the forces that got us into the climate crisis in the first place?
When Morales invited "social movements and Mother Earth's defenders" to a new kind of climate summit, it was an attempt to build a base of power behind the right to survive.
Critics of the final Copenhagen deal say its emissions targets are too lenient. But cash-strapped countries aren't exactly in a great bargaining position.
Tod Brilliant, Post Carbon Institute. December 29, 2009.
While Copenhagen resulted in zero meaningful progress on global emissions reductions, there was one source of inspiration I found there that keeps me going.
No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn't threaten the stability of life on this planet. Is he blowing it?
There is nothing in this deal that would persuade an energy utility that the era of dirty coal is over. And the implications for humanity of that simple fact are profound.
Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.
At UN climate talks Monday, he warned that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice could deprive deprive more than a billion people of access to clean water.
The emails that have right-wingers frothing aren't scandalous. The issue is who hacked the scientists' computers, and what they had to gain from undermining their research.
