environment
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Pollution, profits behind high cancer rates
“You have cancer.” According to the American Cancer Society, over 1.4 million Americans will hear those frightening words this year.…
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Global warming talk, no action
In a bizarre example of capitalist "spin," the Bush administration recently issued an overdue report on emissions controls progress. In…
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Organizing against oil companies’ racism
For decades, the movement to protect the environment was mainly concentrated in middle-class communities and focused on issues far removed…
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Billions face food, water shortage due to capitalist degradation
Millions and even billions of people will face food and water scarcities in the coming years if the current trend…
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Change the system, not the climate!
This article first appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of Australia's Green Left Weekly. Al Gore’s film "An Inconvenient Truth"…
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Global warming, capitalism endangering planet
The following article appeared Jan. 9 on pslweb.org. The year 2007 will be the hottest year on record. This was…
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Corporate global warming reform: ‘Kumbaya moment’ or backstabbing amongst polluters?
On Jan. 23, the Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page article: "For years, the fight over the Earth’s rising…
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U.S. government cuts weather and climate research budget
According to a study by a panel of experts at the National Academy of Sciences, the earth science budget of…
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2007 could be warmest year ever
The year 2007 will be the hottest year on record. This was the prediction announced by the British Meteorological Office…
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Navajo elders resist corporate greed, environmental degradation
The four corners area of New Mexico—the only place in the United States where four states come together in one…
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