Having watched with dismay as the Durban climate talks sputtered to a disappointing conclusion, with all parties knowing that every day that goes by without concerted international effort to address climate change means the inexorable shifting of life as we know it on Earth, I was moved yesterday to put fingers to keyboard and come [...]
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Outsourced pollution rides the trade winds home
How timely, that just as the U.N.-sponsored climate talks are going on in Durban, a new report comes out from the Global Carbon Project informing us that global greenhouse gas emissions grew by a whopping 5.9 percent last year, the largest leap in any year since the Industrial Revolution began. The U.S. remains the world’s second-largest [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on December 5, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/outsourced-pollution-rides-the-trade-winds-home/
Carbon Colonialism: Just Say No!
Do ordinary people need to commit suicide to gain the attention of the global elites? You may remember, back in 2003, a Korean farmer named Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide outside the grounds of the World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun, Mexico, as a protest against the impact of first world subsidies of grain production, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 30, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/carbon-colonialism-just-say-no/
Occupy the Climate Talks in Durban–Virtually
If you lived on a small island nation that was losing precious feet of shoreline every year due to rising seas and storm erosion, you might be forgiven for having high expectations for the current international climate change negotiations going on in Durban, SA. In the the heart of the developed world, meanwhile, you’d have [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 28, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/occupy-the-climate-talks-in-durban-virtually/
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