STWR - Share The World's Resources

Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warn - and we have only 100 months to avoid disaster, explains Andrew Simms.

The G8 agreement on climate change, without a baseline for reductions, is effectively a not-quite-a-pledge - and rather meaningless, writes Michael McCarthy.

We have entered a new geological era marked by growing environmental and social turbulence, the largest transfer of wealth in modern history, and a future defined by overdue questions on how to redress - or further embed - a world of unmanageable inequalities, writes Mike Davis.

The dilemma of the South: if they follow capitalisms 'stages of growth' like the North, it will bring about ecological Armageddon - so climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to bring about long postponed economic reform

Don't believe all this nonsense about waiting for the next president to sort it out - this is a much bigger problem than George Bush.

What is clear is that in most other places in the South, one cannot depend on the elites and some sections of the middle class to decisively change course. At best, they will procrastinate. The fight against global warming will need to be propelled mainly by an alliance between progressive civil society in the North and mass-based citizens’ movements in the South.

The neglected policy debate on ecological limits is unable to call out the elephant of unsustainable lifestyles without challenging the very premise of our economic system.