Create climate change jobs and save the planet
Jonathan Neale in Socialist Worker (UK) sets out the case for a radical solution to unemployment – creating a million new jobs to tackle climate change. While the references are to Britain, the logic...
View ArticleLabor’s Carbon Pollution Scheme – the R’s fallen out
The Labor Government has released its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill. A more appropriate title might be the Carbon Pollution Scheme. The R’s fallen out. What is CPRS? Liz Walsh from Socialist...
View ArticleThe Peter Garrett Good Government Guide – An Oily Analysis
Ive used the lyrics from some of Midnight Oil’s songs to measure the worth of the Rudd Government. Peter Garrett is (or technically was) the Oils’ lead singer. They have re-formed briefly for some...
View ArticleEmissions trading: a pollution and profits bonanza
Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is about profits for the polluters, not cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Liz Ross argues in the latest edition of Socialist Alternative. Rudd’s done it...
View ArticleFollow the Maldives Kevin
The Maldives is going carbon-neutral in the next ten years. The 385,000 people who live on 200 of the 1200 islands that make up the nation will meet all their energy needs from green sources such as...
View ArticleIsn’t the market wonderful?
The market is a wondrous thing. It solves all our problems though some mystic and magical force. Occasionally the potion doesn’t work. All we end up with is a sour taste and a sick stomach. Take...
View ArticleThe Minerals Council: mining bullshit
‘ETS means 23,500 mining jobs will go.’ So screamed the headlines. And so said the Minerals Council of Australia. They commissioned research which ‘proved’ that Kevin Rudd’s pathetic 5 percent...
View ArticlePenny Wong: an insult to demonstrators and intelligence
On Saturday we turned out across Australia to reject the Rudd Government’s climate change response. Five percent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, together with $9 billion of handouts to polluters,...
View ArticleClimate change: the snake oil salesmen of capitalism battle it out
Tony Abbott has concocted a climate change ‘direct-action’ plan that should appeal to every denier. Like Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme it pretends to do something while refusing to attack...
View ArticleJonathan Moylan, stunts, the working class and fighting climate change
Front Line Action on Coal member and environmental activist Jonathan Moylan issued a fake press release from ANZ Bank that they had withdrawn their $1.2 bn funding for Whitehaven’s Maules Creek coal...
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