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Climate campaigners say NSW Labor’s decision to open the state’s west to gas exploration companies will harm the environment and make the transition to benign energy more difficult. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Marxist economist Michael Roberts recently spoke to ecosocialist Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus about his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.
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Local communities are resisting the far-right Argentinian government’s attempts to modify glacier protection laws to allow mega-mining. Olivia Ferrari reports.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre — authors of Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown — about how Karl Marx’s value theory helps explain imperialism’s economic core and ecological breakdown.
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The Rosemouth Hotel bar was overflowing with people supporting the launch of the Members First ticket for the United Workers Union election. Riley Breen and Nova Sobieralski report.
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The Brazilian government has been forced to revoke Decree 12600, which would have opened up vast stretches of the Madeira, Tocantins and Tapajós rivers to privatisation, reports Ben Radford, following more than a month of protests by local indigenous communities.
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Permission for salmon companies to use an antibiotic in south-east Lutruwita/Tasmania may be suspended by the federal regulator only four months after approval was granted. Chris Jenkins reports.
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Australian capitalism is a greenhouse ogre, enriching itself by poisoning the atmosphere. As Renfrey Clarke points out, the hyper-warmed atmosphere is blowing back over Australia regardless.
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As bushfires were raging across Victoria, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he “had our backs”. As Alex Bainbridge argues, this simply not true, as Labor continues to approve new coal and gas.
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Parts of Southeast Asia have been hit by typhoons and experienced severe floods over the past weeks, causing a still-mounting death toll and displacing millions. Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Suresh Kumar, head of the environmental bureau of the Socialist Party of Malaysia, about the causes and solutions.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents a bumper crop of books for reds and greens to check out over the holiday break.
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