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Posts Tagged ‘environmentalist’
Climate Change, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 7th, 2010,
How much can we “safely” pollute our environment? How many fossil fuels can we burn? How much of a poisonous substance does not threaten our health? That our knowledge has limitations does not mean we shouldn’t exaggerate the ecological threat. On the contrary, we should be even more careful about it, given that the situation is extremely unpredictable. The recent uncertainties about global warming signal not that things are not too serious, but that they are even more chaotic than we thought, and that natural and social factors are inextricably linked. The above quote is by Lacanian philosopher and Slovenian…
Tags: ecological, ecology, environmentalist, Slavoj, trash, Zizek
Climate Change, Politics, Jul 28th, 2010,
Cap and trade or emissions trading schemes can be confusing. They have been touted as the chief market-based solution for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, preserving valuable natural resources like forests, while making money for rich and poor countries alike. The far right and climate change skeptics hate them for obvious – and sometimes less obvious – reasons: they hate government meddling in the free market and regulating business and industry to the point that they believe in a vast ‘socialist’ conspiracy involving all prominent climate scientists. Or is it just a simple question of which class and which industries will…
Tags: activist, cap and trade, carbon, change, China, climate, copenhagen, Decodcidio, emissions, environmentalist, European, exchange, hacked, justice, market, scheme, social, trading
Climate Change, Politics, May 12th, 2010,
A few days ago I wrote a bit about the Dark Mountain Project, a sort of post-environmentalist survivalist ideology with a lot of poetry thrown in. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand DM seem appealingly realist and anti-system. Yet at the same time it’s a prematurely pessimistic ‘the worst case scenario has already arrived’ kind of philosophy. The thing is, for the overwhelming majority of environmentalists, greens, etc. the fight is far from over. George Monbiot – who will be attending Uncivilization: the Dark Mountain Festival at the end of the month – clearly hasn’t given…
Tags: Dark Mountain, dystopia, environmentalist, George, hexayurt, Monbiot, project
Climate Change, Uncategorized, Dec 24th, 2009,
Sweeping away years of Bush intransigence, the arrival of Barack Obama in the Whitehouse has given new life to action on climate change. Unfortunately, however, many of the political difficulties that previously shaped the US position remain very much in place. –Tony Juniper In a piece for the British Independent entitled ‘Review of the Year 2009: Climate change – The heat of the moment’, Tony Juniper, a well known U.K. environmentalist and General Election candidate for the Green Party, sums up the year in environmental terms. Juniper names COP15/Copenhagen, the loss of the honeybees (aka Colony Collapse Disorder) the reentry…
Tags: 2009, climate, Climate change, copenhagen, environment, environmentalist, Tony Juniper, year
