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Written by Michael Hureaux Perez
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Saturday, 19 June 2010 |
 On April 20th of this year, the Deepwater Horizon Oil platform exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing a torrential leak of raw petroleum and killing 11 platform workers For weeks on end, millions of gallons of oil hemhorraged into the Gulf from the shattered wellhead, poisoning that body of water and every form of marine life therein for the foreseeable future. On top of that, tens of thousands of gallons of Corexit oil dispersant, which oyster fishermen claim is as much as four times as toxic as the oil, have been dumped in the Gulf. |
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Written by Adam Booth
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
 On Saturday, December 19, 2009, after two weeks of negotiations, the Climate Summit in Copenhagen ended in a complete failure. The outcome of the talks, a document known as the “Copenhagen Accord”, is merely a collection of hollow and vacuous statements, and does not contain any reference to a legally binding agreement.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela Denmark
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
 At a public meeting organized by various trade union, political organizations, and solidarity campaigns (including Hands Off Venezuela), more than 3,000 people in Copenhagen heard President Hugo Chávez correctly point out that a socialist revolution is the only solution to the problems of humanity.
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Written by Kevin Nance
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 |
 Enhanced climate change exists, and we are not currently living sustainably. There is little argument on these points. We all know that the earth has a natural cycle of warming and cooling, but humans are more than likely having a considerable effect on the current warming cycle. The industrialized countries alone, such as the US and much of Europe, have had a great effect on our air, and carbon levels are higher than in the last 2.1 million years, according to the journal Science. The gases entering our atmosphere are byproducts of capitalist industry and, to a lesser extent, our cars. |
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Written by Daniel Read
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Saturday, 25 April 2009 |
 On 23rd March 1989 the oil tanker Exxon Valdez left normal shipping lanes and smashed into the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Within hours, the once mighty vessel had spilled over ten million gallons of oil into the icy waters: the largest oil spill in ever recorded in US waters. As the company responsible, Exxon Mobile was slow to act. |
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Written by Ann Robertson
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
 The environmental statistics have been pouring in, and the prognosis for the planet looks dire: global warming is accelerating, leaving environmental destruction in its wake. Already we are witnessing some of its devastating consequences: temperatures are rising, bringing more intense heat waves; sea levels are rising, producing more flooding; droughts and severe weather patterns are more frequent; wildlife is disappearing because of loss of habitat. These are trends which, if allowed to proceed unchecked, will culminate in humans huddled around the two poles in search of respite from the heat. |
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Written by Mick Brooks
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
 The Stern Report highlights the problem of global warming
linked to the high emissions of carbon. Stern tries to find a solution within
capitalism, without understanding that capitalism is actually the problem. The
unplanned, chaotic nature of the system, where all is based on immediate profit
means no real solution can be found within it. The answer lies in planning and
that can only be achieved under socialism.
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Written by Phil Mitchinson
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
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Earlier this year we
received a letter from a reader of the British Socialist Appeal who says the magazine put too much
importance on one factor that contributes to climate change, human-induced emissions of “greenhouse”
gases. In his answer Phil Mitchinson looks at the broader aspects of pollution,
climate change and so on and stresses the need for a radical, socialist
transformation of society if we are even to begin to tackle these vital problems.
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Written by Mick Brooks
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Monday, 21 August 2006 |
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Global warming and other environmental issues are always in the news.
The Green Party in the UK claims to be neither right wing
nor left wing as, they say, environmental issues transcend the
traditional issues of class and the division between rich and poor that
define conventional political discussions and divisions. This is
poppycock. The environmental problems, and
the potential environmental catastrophe, we face are creations of the
capitalist system.
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Written by Michael Roberts
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Monday, 14 November 2005 |
Dramatic climate change in recent years has led scientists to the conclusion that global warming is the cause. This is bad news for the private owners of the $2trn dollar oil, gas and natural gas industries. If serious action were taken to deal with global warming, their profits would be in trouble. That is why these big monopolies have spent millions on a campaign designed to rubbish the global warming theory.
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Written by Rob Lyon
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Thursday, 18 August 2005 |
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The debate over global warming and the consequences it may or may not have for planet Earth and humanity has been raging for several decades now. Global warming is an endless source of controversy, but one thing is clear – our climate is changing. |
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Written by Mick Brooks
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Tuesday, 14 November 2000 |
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The collapse of the talks at the Hague has brought the issue of global warming back into the headlines. Mick Brooks looks at the reasons for the collapse of the talks, the failures of the Kyoto agreement, the responsibility of capitalism in the destruction of the environment and the need for a socialist alternative. |
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Written by Colin Penfold
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Wednesday, 05 April 2000 |
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"According to the defenders of capitalism and the "free market", socialism in general and marxism in particular is all but dead and buried. However it may be instructive to examine one of the main environmental problems created by the free market, namely global warming. This has been described as the greatest disaster facing humankind, not to mention a myriad of other species! The question is can the capitalist system find a global solution?". |
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Environment 
The huge spillage of oil in the Gulf of Mexico was an accident waiting to happen, as this brief comment from an ex-oil worker points out. It shows quite clearly that our environment cannot be left in the hands of a greedy, money-grabbing coterie of capitalists who own and control the means of production.