With a stroke of the pen, Carney illuminated his party’s position on the growing climate disaster. His signature on the MOU erased any illusions (not that Socialist Alternative had any) that the Liberal Party is serious about reducing emissions and averting climate catastrophe. It made clear where its allegiances lie: with big business and big […]
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Brazil’s Lula government had announced COP30 in Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon River, as a summit of “truth” and “implementation.” It turned out instead to be both an expected and a sad fiasco. Astoundingly, the UN-led climate negotiations failed to even manage to mention fossil fuels by name as the cause of 75 […]
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Mark Carney’s Liberals won the election promising to stand up to Trump and his tariffs and threats to make Canada the 51st state. In office, Carney dropped the “elbows up” approach; instead, he is appeasing Trump. The Liberals have scrapped almost all tariffs on US imports. They agreed to join the “Golden Dome,” a space-based […]
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With every tenth of a degree of additional warming, the probability of passing a tipping point increases. A major new review conducted by the scientific laboratory at Germany’s The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in collaboration with researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre claims that ocean acidification has now exceeded critical thresholds for the […]
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Canadian governments want to produce more fossil fuels, even while the country burns. The 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst disasters spurred by climate change. In just nine years, 2024, that benchmark was broken. Around the world heatwaves, fires, floods, […]
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Sammy Albright is a member of Socialist Alternative US From devastating floods in Texas to the threat of escalating war in the Middle East, every day brings a new reminder of how urgently we need to stop the billionaires from destroying the planet. Imagine if we utilized the skills of workers in polluting and war […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Socialistisk Alternative (ISA in Sweden) At the same time, according to a new UN report, more than 90 million people in eastern and southern Africa are suffering from extreme hunger after record droughts with widespread crop failures and livestock deaths. While the world’s capitalist rulers focus on war, military […]
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The reality is big business and the capitalist class do not care about the environment. They only have one commitment: the pursuit of profit above all else. COP30, the 30th instalment of the United Nations’ climate change conference, is scheduled to take place in Brazil later this year. In a stunning demonstration of the capitalist […]
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No Disaster Profiteering — Force Big Business to Rebuild Los Angeles A historic windstorm ignited several wildfires in Los Angeles last week, encompassing over 40,000 acres — nearly triple the size of Manhattan. At least 25 have died, and thousands lost their homes to unprecedented fires, even in a region that has grown accustomed to […]
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This autumn’s devastating torrential rains in Spain, hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea and typhoons in Southeast Asia are a warning of the apocalyptic future that looms unless the world can quickly halt global warming. The devastation is a direct consequence of 2023 and 2024 being the hottest years on record, with global temperatures peaking at […]
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