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Oil Wars: Worried About the Price of Gas? End the Wars

War and political instability in the Middle East are the major driving forces behind the soaring price of oil. To counter the energy crisis, profits must be taken out of war

The Rise of Obesity and Hunger: An Interview with Raj Patel

Patel's new book 'Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System' makes visible the people behind the abstraction and reveals a global food system that, with our complicity, continues to alienate farmers and consumers alike, all while fattening the pocketbooks of a few middlemen.

Climate Policy: From ‘Know How’ to ‘Do Now’

To continue business as usual while debating the predictions of complex models in a world made even more uncertain by the questions we ask is to fail to pull the ripcord

Corporations Grab Climate Genes

Monopoly control of crop genes is a bad idea under any circumstances - but in the midst of a global food crisis with climate change looming, such control is unacceptable.

Food Crisis Symptom of Dubious Liberalisation

After two decades of the destruction of agriculture, trade liberalization is the cause and not the panacea for the current food crisis.

Richly Undeserved

The working class may have failed Marx's vision, but the new 'grave-diggers of capitalism' will almost certainly turn out to be those who have gutted the earth of its treasures.

Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative

The food crisis and farm crisis are rooted in an irrational, anti-human agricultural system that puts profit ahead of human needs.

Global Famine

Spiraling food prices, rooted in the 'free market' re-structuring of global agriculture since the 1980s, has led to a worldwide process of famine formation on an unprecedented scale.

Global Poverty: More Big Business Is Not the Solution

PM Gordon Brown may be passionate about reducing poverty, but he remains unwilling to address the real problem of 'business as usual'.

The World at 350: A Last Chance for Civilization

Civilization is what grows up in the margins of leisure and security provided by a workable relationship with the natural world. That margin won't exist, at least not for long, this side of 350