Category Climate change

Vermonters are starting to use Waste Vegetable Oil to make maple syrup rather than heating oil. It saves the environment as well as saving money. But a bigger threat lurks. Canada now dominates the international maple syrup market. Could this…

Alexander Cockburn of CounterPunch says global warming is a plot by capitalists to bring back nuclear power. Louis Proyect says that’s ludicrous, saying he sounds like 9/11 conspiracists. This involves major leaps of the imagination. Just as I always found…

Slash and burn practices of foresting in many countries produce more greenhouse gases each day than eight million people flying from NYC to London. Thus, stopping the loggers is a prime solution for climate change.

Meanwhile, the US and Canadian governments want to dilute a declaration about global warming at the upcoming G8 conference so they don’t actually have to do anything. None are so blind as those who refuse to see.