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The threat of climate change and global warming, fueled by relentless commercialization and excessive consumption, has turned into a fighting ground for both policymakers and concerned citizens. The coming decade is set to determine not only a collective response to reducing carbon emissions, but the entire future direction for international development and the global justice movement.

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Borat Goes to Washington: Don't Experiment with the US Economy

How is it that we can be perfectly willing to “experiment” with the survival of the planet and our species, but not with the U.S. economy?

Global Warming: The Final Warning

Carbon Dioxide Rate is at Highest Level for 650,000 Years.

Listen Gore: Some Inconvenient Truths About the Politics of Environmental Crisis

"The solutions Gore offers are standard Democratic Party fare. You'd never know by watching this film that Gore and Clinton ran this country for 8 years and that their policies -- as much as those of the Bush regime -- helped pave the way for the crisis we face today."

Subsidizing Climate Change

"Each year the world's taxpayers provide an estimated $700 billion of subsidies for environmentally destructive activities, such as fossil fuel burning, overpumping aquifers, clearcutting forests, and overfishing," says Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in his book "Plan B 2.0."

Launch of a Comprehensive Global Energy Strategy Sets out a Blueprint for Tackling Climate Change

27th Jan 07 - Greenpeace

BRUSSELS - Renewable energy, combined with efficiencies from the ‘smart use’ of energy, can deliver half of the world’s energy needs by 2050, according to one of the most comprehensive plans for future sustainable energy provision, launched today.

The New Friends of the Earth?

If Tesco and Wal-Mart are friends of the earth, are there any enemies left?

The Global Blueprint for a Biomass Economy

"Today’s bioenergy revolution is already destroying some of the planet’s vital climate sinks and threatens to greatly accelerate the pace of global warming. Accelerated global warming threatens all our future. We have the evidence. What we now need is a strong global opposition."

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