by Ming | Sep 20, 2010 | Politics of Climate Change, post
As the global economy hurtles toward Great Recession II, the earth hurtles toward climate catastrophe. Both represent the results of a neoliberal deregulation that has left humanity no means to shape our economies to serve human needs — not even the need for...
by Ming | Jul 21, 2010 | Politics of Climate Change, post
This month is the anniversary of a long-forgotten landmark in American history, the “Great Upheaval” of July, 1877. It may be surprisingly relevant today. The Great Upheaval was a movement widely portrayed as a violent rebellion. In the midst of a...
by Ming | Jul 6, 2010 | Just Transition, post
The meeting you probably heard about: At the end of June, leaders from the world’s richest and largest countries met in Toronto, Canada. As the global economy festered in its worst crisis since the 1930s, as poverty and unemployment tormented growing millions,...
by Ming | Jun 29, 2010 | post
[Cross-posted with HuffingtonPost] Rising greenhouse gases. Climate change. Rising energy costs. Declining fossil fuels reserves. Now the BP disaster. With the arguments against fossil fuels continuing to pile up it’s no wonder people have latched onto nuclear...
by Ming | Jun 13, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith, original posted on HuffingtonPost] With gallows humor, my fellow oystermen around the country have been passing around a Youtube clip of a 1960 educational film produced by the oil industry entitled “Lifeline to an Oyster.” This reel...
by Ming | Jun 10, 2010 | Just Transition, post
“The California Jobs Initiative.” Sounds like a good idea. After all, California’s unemployment rate is now over twelve percent. But there’s something a little funny here. Turns out that the main financial backers of the “California...
