Archive for December, 2009

Another good article by George Monbiot. While the Abbotts and the Minchins crow about the failure of the climate talks there are serious issues at stake apart from the crass political objectives of the free marketers who see the profit driven economy as  a divine right for the privileged and elite groups in society. They [...]

  Perhaps these words should be added to those of Monbiot in the previous article on this page. Friends of the Earth said in a statement, “Obama has deeply disappointed not only those listening to his speech at the UN talks, he has disappointed the whole world…”The extent of crisis in the talks has taken leaders [...]

Are these words the epitaph of Copenhagen. With thanks to George Monbiot these are the last words in his latest article. “Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you, not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks [...]

There is an extremely well written article about Copenhagen, by Naomi Klein at the Guardian site. You can look at that article at link. What she is saying is that no deal is better than one that would be catastrophic, particularly for Africa, in particular. Two degrees increase which seems to have assumed some almost [...]

A really good news article from George Monbiot. He finally talks with Plimer the Australian scientist about matters Plimer raises. Read the article at this link and make up your mind or better still look at the interview when it is available. Being a betting man and having read the Monbiot article my money is on Monbiot. [...]

There is a very good video available of George Monbiot at Copenhagen. You can view the video at link. There is an interesting exchange between the Mayor of Copenhagen and the UK counterpart. Monbiot asks the question of the Mayors to name the greenest city. This a very worthwhile video to watch. Particularly the obvious [...]

There is an exceptional article by George Monbiot available at his site, http://www.monbiot.com/ and in many other publications, including the Guardian. In that article he talks about what he considers is the real importance of the Copenhagen conference. He refers to Australia bluntly as being part of,” A new movement, most visible in North America [...]

The position in Copenhagen with the arrests of protesters seems ridiculously heavy handed. Reports from various outlets are suggestive of an approach of arrest first, find out why later. That approach of course along with principles of preventive detention run counter to any proper approach to human rights, regardless of the ‘sincerity’ of the police [...]

A recent Tomgram contains an article by Martin Chulov (link). It deals with ecological concerns in Iraq. Chulov says that,” In a land where fundamental interpretations of monotheistic scripts often determine the tone of public discourse, particular attention is now being paid to the biblical Book of Revelation, in which the Euphrates River drying up [...]

There are some excellent videos available at the Real News site about the Copenhagen conference. The first is with Naomi Klein and she very succinctly puts the argument that the conference is about the rich countries seeing their role as further weakening Kyoto and that the conference is really all about power. You can view [...]

Does our own Lord Minchin share these views? From a recent Monbiot article comes the news that,” In the speech, (Lord) Monckton maintains that: • He has read the treaty that will be signed at Copenhagen next week. That’s quite a feat of clairvoyance. • The treaty says that “a world government is going to [...]

The Copenhagen conference has attracted 190 countries around the world to attend. Newspapers in fifty six countries took what is claimed an unprecedented step to publish the same editorial which reads in part…”Unless we combine to take decisive action , climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. Climate change [...]

Are you getting sick and tired of the Labor Party and their do nothing take you nowhere ETS scheme, or how to let the big polluters keep going and create another commodities type market. Or if you realise that Abbott and his flunkies really do not give a damn about climate change as long as [...]

There are two videos available at the RealNews site with George Monbiot talking about the disgraceful position in Canada and the extraction of oil from the country. He sums up the situation with the comment that Canada is to climate what the Japanese are to whaling. Canada does not have to convert itself into a [...]

George Monbiot has written an article that says a great deal about some commonly held views about Canada. The Article is titled, ”The Urgent threat to World Peace is… Canada.” The article will not take long to be on the Guardian site and can be accessed at Monbiot.com.  Obviously the article deals with some very [...]