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Posts Tagged ‘Left’
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 11th, 2011,
(And why it’s just plain right.) The protesters at Occupy Wall Street have been criticized for being a scruffy bunch of hippies with no clear central message. Indeed, if interviewed they usually preface their answers by explaining how their movement is a broad tent: grass roots, without leaders and based on a variety of premises and complaints. In short, there is no one key demand that functions in the way that anti-Vietnam War sentiments galvanized the protest movements of the 1960s. So what. The US is entrenched in two wars, neither, of which have a definitive end in sight. There…
Tags: Climate change, corporations, environment, Green, Left, occupy wall street, political, protest, Right
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Apr 12th, 2011,
Despite the global Left establishment’s almost complete sell out, maybe market capitalism shouldn’t be the only game in town. OK, the Berlin Wall fell over 20 years ago and the Soviet Union collapsed and of course capitalism eventually results in democracy. Or does it? Look at China – centrally controlled, lacking rule of law – it has become less egalitarian and no more democratic in the process of embracing capitalism with unprecedented gusto. In the meantime iconic Western liberal democracies are playgrounds for the rich where the masses scramble for crumbs. The US and UK are using an economic downturn…
Tags: capitalism, Climate change, Left, Slavoj, Zizek
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 23rd, 2010,
Back in 1989 UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called on the UN for action against man-made global warming. Maggie warned that rapid increases in the use of fossil fuels, the rise of industrial agriculture and population growth were ‘a massive experiment’ on the planet. James Delingpole quotes Thatcher in a recent piece for the Telegraph: Recently three changes in atmospheric chemistry have become familiar subjects of concern. The first is the increase in the greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons—which has led some to fear that we are creating a global heat trap which could lead to climatic instability. We…
Tags: Bob Ward, climate, Climate change, global, Left, Maggie, Margaret, Right, skeptic, Thatcher, warming, wing
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 26th, 2010,
Economic recession, ‘Climategate’ and other ensuing scandals may have shaken both the public’s faith in – and concern about – the realities of man made climate change. Yet a fickle media or confused citizenry have not been enough for most political establishments to break from some kind of platform that takes climate change and other environmental issues into account. Contemporary politics are still strongly influenced by what has become the zeitgeist of the day – and the parties of the future will no doubt be judged in part on how they are now reacting to environmental concerns. For the moment,…
Tags: climate, Climate change, copenhagen, Economist, environment, environmental, european union, Green, greener, Left, party, political, Politics, Right, Rising Tide
