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Flooding in Gloucester in 2007, photo Chris Moore
23 January 2013
Book review: Planning for the Planet
How socialism could save the environment. The cover bears a striking image of a polar bear marooned on an iceberg: summing up the devastation of global warming, writes Paul Moorhouse.
12 December 2012
Fracking - gas profit dash could wreck climate
In his Autumn Statement, Con-Dem chancellor George Osborne announced a new 'dash for gas' including fracking, the technology used to obtain gas and oil trapped in shale rock, writes Pete Mason.
28 November 2012
Flooding tragedies - Socialist action needed to tackle climate change
While some of the worst storms and flooding in recent memory hit parts of Britain, UK climate change secretary Ed Davey was in Doha for the latest in the series of toothless United Nations Climate Change conferences
National Snow and Ice Data Centre graph of arctic ice extent, 17 September 2012, photo by NSIDC
19 September 2012
Global warming: Capitalists skating on thin ice
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre is expected to announce a new low in the extent of the arctic sea ice, writes Pete Mason.
30 May 2012
Needed: a socialist plan for the environment
Global warming: threat critical: Global warming is the overriding environmental issue facing the world. 20 years have passed since the UN 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro highlighted the problem, yet emissions have rocketed
8 May 2012
Profit hungry 'Big Oil' backs climate change deniers
While April may have been the wettest April in the UK for 250 years and March was the warmest March ever recorded in the US, top corporations are funding climate change denial
18 April 2012
Emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change have escalated to critical levels. Pete Dickenson indicts the representatives of the capitalist market system, citing the antagonisms between the major industrial powers.
18 April 2012
Planning for the Planet book references
This webpage is part of the reference material in Planning for the Planet, and provides clickable links to resources and other references noted in the book, writes Web references to notes at end of chapters, where available without subscription.
28 March 2012
World warming even faster than thought
Socialist plan needed: If further proof were needed to show that the Tories' election pledge to be the "greenest government ever" was a lie it has now been provided...
Socialism Today issue 155 February 2012
19 January 2012
Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming. The latest attempt pushed any hope of a deal back far too late for meaningful action, writes Pete Dickenson for the latest Socialism Today.
Arctic Sea Ice loss animation demonstrates drastic climate change through global warming, photo NASA
14 December 2011
No progress at climate conference
When is an agreement not an agreement? When it's an agreement to reach an agreement in the future, writes Pete Mason, East London Socialist Party.
Flooding in the centre of Gloucester, 2007, photo Chris Moore
7 December 2011
Climate change and extreme weather
Scotland enjoyed its warmest November on record and the UK's autumn was the second warmest since records began in 1910, the Met Office confirmed this week, writes Pete Mason.
8 June 2011
End the 'insane' pursuit of oil profit
In parts of the USA you can set fire to your tap water. Now an enterprising company seems to want to bring the practice to Britain, writes Pete Mason.
1 December 2010
Climate change: Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe
CLIMATE CHANGE is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says. Millions suffered great hardship...
20 September 2010
The Scale of the Problem of Environmental Threats
The scale of the environmental threats facing us need to be understood, so that the difficulty in mitigating and then eliminating them can be estimated...
20 September 2010
The fiasco over the Kyoto agreement is a good example to demonstrate the inability of the capitalist system to tackle the crisis...
20 September 2010
The Nature of the Problem: An Impending Environmental Crisis
Few, except for George Bush and his carefully picked 'experts', who speak for the interests of the oil companies and other multinationals, argue against the view that we face an impending environmental crisis...
20 September 2010
Introduction to Planning Green Growth
To avoid embarrassment, at a time when famine is sweeping the region, some of the governments involved are making cosmetic cuts in their delegations and restricting extravagant consumption of luxury items...
20 September 2010
Preface to Planning Green Growth
This important and timely new pamphlet (published on the eve of the 'Earth Summit' in Johannesburg), analyses the causes and scope of environmental destruction across the globe and asks what is the way forward, writes Pete Dickenson.
20 September 2010
Is sustainable growth possible on a capitalist basis?
Most capitalist politicians now pay lip service to sustainability, so what are the prescriptions they are putting forward to achieve this...
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