environment
Articles about the environment, including ecology, climate change, pollution and more.
Precious metals - struggle and repression in Papua
The battle over Papua’s copper and gold deposits is heating up as locals fight back against their exploiters, reports Rob Ray
Mining giant Freeport-McMoran have violently cleared roadblocks thrown up by locals in protest at the company’s exploitation of Papua’s vast mineral resources and treatment of the indigenous population.
"The Land is Theirs"
Black Flag #208, June 1996, covered a land squat in London done by "The Land is Ours". This article is the critical evaluation of this by someone who participated.
THE LAND IS THEIRS
or, pace George Monbiot, "This Land Is my Uncle's"
Chemical World
This article was originally in Black Flag #208, published in 1996. It was written by a member of the grassroots Communities Against Toxics, who publish ToxCat.
Phthalates, dioxins, other chemicals and infants
Anarchism and Environmental Survival (review)
Anarchism & Environmental Survival - Graham Purchase (See Sharp Press, Tucson)
India: Villagers lock down iron factory
Jamshedpur: Annoyed by the air pollution caused by Sidhi Vinayak Metacom Limited, a sponge iron unit at Chowka under Seraikela-Kharsawan district, villagers from adjoining areas forcefully closed the company on Friday.
Police said the villagers had staged a dharna* in front of the company’s main gate on December 27, 2005, asking the company to install an electrostatic precipitator to control air pollution caused by the exhaust gas of the plant.
Social change not climate change
The disastrous effects of global warming are being felt world-wide...
Rising sea levels are leading to floods and landslides, increasing storm activity is causing widespread death, homelessness, and destruction, and long and sustained droughts are severely damaging food production. Ultimately, millions will die, and there will be massive ecological destruction, if we do not act.
Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement
Murray Bookchin's critique of 'mystical' deep ecologists and his contribution to the development of a pro-working class environmentalism.
by Murray Bookchin
The environmental movement has traveled a long way since those early Earth Day festivals when millions of school kids were ritualistically mobilized to clean up streets, while Arthur Godfrey, Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich, and a bouquet of manipulative legislators scolded their parents for littering the landscape with cans, newspapers, and bottles.
New Labour goes nuclear
Just when you thought it could get no worse, New Labour goes nuclear.
The whispering campaign around the push for nuclear power has been gaining momentum since last year. Until then Britain’s nuclear programme seemed to have been largely written off as the costly and dangerous failure it was. Nobody even knows how to safely decommission the power stations already built or store the radioactive waste already produced.
Bangladesh... Not Just Floods! - Communism #12
Capital has asserted itself as the worldwide mode of production since the XVth century. Since then, it has cemented every brick in every mine, factory, office where it extracts surplus value from those who it exploits. It oils its machines, air planes and computers... with the blood of those from whom it extracts surplus value.
The Legend of the Piave - Amadeo Bordiga
Bordiga's analysis of a fatal environmental catastrophe in Italy, which could easily been avoided, had importance been placed on safety rather than profitability.
The patriotic saga of Italy raised the Piave to the status of the national river, and designated it as such, in 1917. In the war which was to have been the Fourth War of Independence, leading the country in a leap beyond the Venetian frontiers (won by no means by armed might) already gained from the Third.
