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Green Left Weekly issue #691, 22 November 2006
Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Save the planet - make capitalism history!

RESISTANCE! The following statement was issued by Resistance, a socialist youth organisation, on November 16. » Vote for the socialists!

OUR COMMON CAUSE There are six socialist candidates standing in the November 25 Victorian state election, and we call for your support for all of them. » No to carbon trading: make the polluters pay

Glenn Albrecht correctly identifies coal as the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases. But his support for a type of carbon credit scheme, whereby the rest of the world pays Australia not to mine its coal, implies confidence that the market will correct itself. However, the decisions made over the... » CFMEU: Howard must sign Kyoto

In a document released on November 25, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) calls on the Australian government to ratify the Kyoto treaty, as part of a strategy to combat climate change. » Clean, green energy is possible

Even John Howard has got the point at last: human-made climate change can’t be denied. But the minor reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions available from existing “solutions” - from the Kyoto Protocol to Howard’s technofixes - won’t stave off further destruction. We need a radically... » Coal - leave it in the ground

With the speed of global warming and the seriousness of climate chaos now firmly established in the minds of our politicians, it is urgent that they display leadership on actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The leadership so far — in that it has promoted the dirty lie of “clean coal” a... »


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