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Climate change: first real threat to capitalism

<p> <p>Just as feudalism proved too inflexible for industrialization, capitalism appears too inflexible for sustainability. And sustainability increasingly appears necessary for survival.&nbsp;Democracy and capitalism get along famously well, as America has demonstrated, and nothing can stop them.&nbsp;Except the planet.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s the developed democracies of ...

Copenhagen pledges-turned in yesterday-show fear

<p>Fifty-five nations have attached formal emissions targets to the Copenhagen Accord, the United Nations reported today. But most nations, including the U.S., are hedging their pledges:</p>

UN: World to hold U.S. acccountable on climate

<p> <p>With the election of a Republican to the Senate yesterday, hope has dimmed that the United States will cap its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming year, and on that hope rests the greater hope that the rest of the warming world can do the same.&nbsp;But the world has no intention of letting the United States off the hook, one of its more patient spokesmen warned this ...

China mandates renewable energy while US dithers

<p>As often as socialism and communism are evoked to discredit the Obama Administration&rsquo;s agenda, it can be illustrative to observe how communist governments actually behave.</p>

Why the 'political agreement' was not a failure

<p>In testimony before India&rsquo;s parliament yesterday, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the BASIC countries&ndash;an acronym-jumble for Brazil, South Africa, India and China&ndash;would not have accepted a legally binding agreement. Political was the best we could get. And the difference may be negligible anyway...</p>

Bruised Republicans threaten to block climate bill

<p> <p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is the lynchpin vote for the U.S. to pass a law limiting greenhouse gas emissions next year. He and Joe Lieberman agreed to play along only after Democrats accepted concessions promoting nuclear energy, offshore oil drilling, and oxymoronic clean coal.</p> <p>A U.S. law limiting carbon emissions, meanwhile, is crucial to an equally f...

The Copenhagen Accord: Obama strong arms the world

<p> <p>COPENHAGEN&ndash;President Obama walked into a meeting of the world&rsquo;s most powerful developing nations Friday night, divided his opposition, and pressed the larger United Nations assembly into salvaging these two weeks of talks with the 2 1/2-page document that will forever be known to history as the Copenhagen Accord.</p> <p>A brief history of the...

Arctic Ice Photos the Bush Admin. Kept Secret

<p>"Almost two weeks ago, the Obama Administration declassified about 1,000 satellite photographs of Arctic ice the Bush Administration had kept under wraps...."</p>

This Is The Big One Music Video

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIoGpnrl8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIoGpnrl8</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Andy Fraser Sponsorer Climate Change Video Konkurrence</strong> <br /><br />Los Angeles, CA - 4. december 2009 - Andy Fraser st&aring;r med kampagner som Avaaz.org, TckTckTck, Repower Americ...

Climate Change Video Competition

<p><strong>Climate Change Video Competition Make A Difference ~ Andy Fraser has contributed the song <i>This Is The Big One</i>, as a worldwide copyright free download, for fellow activists to upload their event videos or pictures, post on YouTube, and win prizes.</strong></p> <p><strong>Andy Fraser is standing with campaigns such as Avaaz.org, T...

Andy Fraser Sponsors 'Climate Change' Video Compet

<p><strong>Andy Fraser Sponsors 'Climate Change' Video Competition</strong></p> <p>Rock icon Andy Fraser ("All Right Now", "Every Kind of People") has donated <i>This Is The Big One</i>, as a worldwide free download, to encourage fellow activists to upload 'event' pix &amp; clips with the song to YouTube. Win iPods &amp; an ...

Towards climate action in Copenhagen 2009

<p>First international planning meeting</p> <p>We invite you to join the 1st international planning meeting in Copenhagen from the 13-14th of September 2008. The meeting aims at preparing a large mobilisation for direct action against the root causes of climate change in Copenhagen and throughout the world during the UN Climate Conference (30 Nov-11 Dec 2009). </p>