Trends in the struggle to save the planet
The UN climate conference COP27: Greenwashing the road to disaster. Also, Scientist Rebellion and 1,000 academics declared prior to COP27 that "continuing to say publicly 1.5°C is still alive is no longer defensible" (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 25, 2022)
Scientist Rebellion protests climate change inaction including the open letter from Extinction Rebellion warning about the looming climate disaster (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, May 15, 2022)
Earth Day 2022: Time's up for preventing climate change -- IPCC says some log-term climate devastation is now 'inevitable and irreversible'" . And "Scientist Rebellion". (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 22, 2022)
Greenwash 2021: People take to the streets to demand real action at the UN climate conference COP26 turns into Global Greenwash 2021. (Detroit/Seattle W orkers' Voice email list, November 11, 2021)
A week of Build Back Fossil Free demonstrations in Washington, DC - environmental activists vs false solutions (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 11, 2021)
Youthful climate strikers say: Politicians fiddle while the world burns(Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 2, 2021)
Establishment environmentalism claims it is moving towards net zero emissions, while it is actually making use of fraudulent carbon offsets, (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, August 18, 2021)
Earth Day 2021: Greta Thunberg vs Biden's international Leaders Summit on Climate (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 23, 2021)
Support the Wet'suwet'en struggle against the new gas pipeline in British Columbia: activists demonstrate in front of the Canadian Consulate in Detroit on February 17 (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, February 18, 2020)
Half a million climate protesters seek to pressure the 25th annual UN climate summit (COP25) in Madrid. 500,000 protesters on the outside, but business-as-usual carbon traders dominate the inside. This includes a description of the climate summit and what it aimed at doing, as well as a list of sources for background on the Paris Agreement, UN climate summits, and the failure of carbon markets (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, December 10, 2019)
The mixed class nature of the historic 2019 youth climate strikes. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 17, 2019)
The Second Round of the Youth Climate Strike. And, despite theorizing of The Spark, the environmental movement is not a dead end. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 2, 2019)
March with the Youth Climate Strikers in Seattle on Sept. 20. Seattle Workers' Voice, vol. 3, #4, September 16, 2019. SWV leaflet in PDF form ,
Take part in the Extinction Rebellion demo in Seattle on May 24! Also, an exchange about the the Extinction Rebellion and the changes in the climate justice movement (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, May 23, 2019).
Seattle Workers' Voice on Earth Day 2019: As the demand for climate action grows,
build a working class movement against climate change! (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 28, 2019).
The "Rise for Climate" march in Tacoma and the fallacy of the carbon tax - a report on the RISE for climate demonstration in Tacoma, by Frank Arango ( Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 18, 2018)
A global day of climate action
RISE for climate, jobs and justice
(Seattle Workers' Voice vol. 2 #7
and Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 8, 2018)
Take part in the March for Science
A time of environmental crisis - EARTH DAY 2018
(Seattle Workers' Voice vol. 2, #5 and
Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 10, 2018)
The March for Science and the People's Climate March: one of the articles in a list item entitled "May Day in a time of troubles", May Day 2017. (DSWV email list, April 30, 2017)
March for Science and the Environment on Earth Day! Into the streets on Earth Day, says Seattle Workers' Voice #3. (DSWV email list, April 16, 2017)
No more pipelines! Leaflet by the Seattle Communist Study Group for the demonstrations against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. (DWV email list, February 11, 2017)
Defend the Standing Rock protesters! (DWV email list, November 25, 2016)
March for Science and the Environment on Earth Day!
Seattle Workers' Voice #3 says "Into the streets on Earth Day!"
(Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 16, 2017)
No more pipelines! Leaflet by the Seattle Communist Study Group for the demonstrations
against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.
(Detroit Workers' Voice email list, February 2, 2017)
In support of the "Break Free from Fossil Fuels" protests - including also "The carbon tax is another false solution, and the IMF and World Bank are pushing it". Leaflet of the Seattle Communist Study Group, May 14, 2016.
Earth Day 2016 revisited: the IMF and the World Bank push for the neo-liberal carbon tax (DWV email list, April 29, 2016)
On the occasion of Earth Day, 2016 - ncluding brief remarks on works by Gar Lipow, Heather Rogers, Chai Jing, Naomi Klein, Al Gore, and Patrick Bond (DWV email list, April 22, 2016).
As the UN climate change conference in Paris ends, demonstrations in Paris and Seattle demand real action (DWV email list, December 11, 2015)
Obama's pretty speeches against climate change are not enough!
Seattle Communist Study Group denounces Obama's environmental record
on the occasion of Obama's visit to Seattle on October 9, 2015 and calls for people
to attend the People's Climate March in Seattle of October 14.
Pope Francis denounces both climate change denialism and carbon credits
(by Pete Brown, Detroit Workers' Voice email list, September 21, 2015)
About Earth Day, 2015 - Assessing the different trends in the environmental movement, with brief reviews of seven books and one video, (by Joseph Green, Detroit Workers' Voice email list, April 23, 2015)
Report on the "Teach-In + 50" at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
(by Pete Brown, Detroit Workers' Voice email list, April 2, 2015)
Climate change is here! Two faces of the IPCC Synthesis Report
(by Joseph Green, Detroit Workers' Voice email list, November 8, 2014)
About Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
(by Joseph Green, Detroit Workers' Voice email list, October 11, 2014)
Stop the coal trains!
Leaflet of the Seattle Communist Study Group, October 14, 2013.
For a working class trend within the environmental movement, with a program opposed
to the market measures of establishment environmentalism:
presentation by Joseph Green at the "Capital, History and Environmental Politics" panel
at the Platypus Convention
(CV issue #48, Vol. 10 #1, June 15, 2013)
About the speeches at the "Forward on Climate" rally in Washington, D.C.:
presentation by Pete Brown at the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group meeting of March 17, 2013
Al Gore's "24 hours of reality" about global warming, but continuing fantasy about market-based measures: Al Gore and the Climate Reality Project
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #46, vol 17, #1, Nov. 15, 2011)
The sorry results of the Cancun global warming summit of 2010, the failure of climate capitalism, and the prospects of major change
-- based on a presentation at the January 2, 2011 meeting of the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group,
with an introduction of November 2011 about the upcoming Durban global warming summit of 2011
(Issue #46, vol 17, #1, Nov. 15, 2011)
Class trends in the environmental movement: Not all that glitters is green
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #45, vol 16, #2, Nov. 17, 2010)
Know who you are dealing with ... the continuum of environmental groups
(Chart reprinted from the Corporate Accountability Project, and discussed in the article "Class trends in the environmental movement: Not all that glitters is green)
(Issue #45, vol 16, #2, Nov. 17, 2010)
Lessons from the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit of 2009
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #44, vol 16, #1, Jan. 15, 2010)
'Cap and trade' won't work: the politicians vs. the environment (expanded and referenced version of a talk at the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group meeting of Sept. 21, 2008, given under the title "McCain and Obama vs. the environment", 45K
(Issue #43, vol. 15, #1, June 1, 2009)
About The Green-Collar Economy of Van Jones: green jobs are not enough!
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #43, vol. 15, #1, June 1, 2009)
The carbon tax -- another failed free-market measure to avoid environmental planning
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #42, vol. 14, #2, Aug. 20, 2008)
Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize and the fiascos of corporate environmentalism
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #41, vol. 14 , #1, Feb. 20, 2008)
Subheads:
The growing consensus on global warming
Fiascos of corporate environmentalism
Carbon trading and the failure to meet the goals of the Kyoto Treaty
-- The looming biofuel disaster
-- American corn ethanol and higher food prices
-- Sugar cane ethanol and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest
-- The palm oil fiasco
Al Gore, advocate for corporate environmentalism
Two types of global warming deniers (one type that Gore fights and one type that Gore represents)
Fighting global warming requires comprehensive economic planning
Mass participation
Environmentalism and the class struggle
Marxism and global warming. Marx and Engels on protecting the environment--a review of John Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology (by Joseph Green, CV issue #40, vol. 13, #2, August, 2007)
The coming of the environmental crisis, the failure of the free market, and the fear of a carbon dictatorship (the crisis is upon us, workers' livelihood must be protected alongside the environment, what's wrong with the carbon tax and carbon markets, the need for direct regulation of greenhouse emissions, democratic vs. capitalist planning)
(by Joseph Green, CV issue #39, vol. 13, #1, January 24, 2007)
Subheads:
The environmental crisis is upon us
-- New Orleans, a sign of things to come
Failure of the free market:
-- The Montreal Protocol and the protection of the ozone layer
-- The Kyoto Protocol and the fiasco of carbon trading
-- The failed balance-sheet of the Kyoto Protocol
-- The carbon tax -- another attempt at a market solution
-- The record of energy deregulation
-- A comparison of the errors of Soviet planning with similar problems in carbon trading and carbon taxes
Democratic planning and the direct regulation of production:
-- Major changes throughout the economy
-- Material balances, not "true cost pricing"
-- Large-scale production
-- Mass participation
-- Planning for mass welfare
-- The issue of ownership
-- No lasting progress if there is fear of moving towards socialism
War-style environmentalism:
-- Tim Flannery's nightmare -- the "carbon dictatorship"
(Issue #15, vol. 3, #4, October 15, 1997)
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