The Copenhagen Climate Talks – the 15th conference of all the parties of the UNFCC – have now come to a close. The hope was that the gathered world leaders and politicians would have created a legally binding deal that would see global emissions of greenhouse gas fall drastically as the science demanded, limiting the [...] Read more »
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If you’re in love with the world, fall in love with trying to save it
by Derrick Jensen, reprinted from Orion Magazine.
Years ago I was interviewed by a dogmatic pacifist (note to self: bad idea), who in his (grossly inaccurate) write-up said he thought I wanted all activists to think like assassins. That’s not true. What [...] Read more »
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Here’s an interesting article about hope and Copenhagen (it was written at the start of the conference, so doesn’t cover anything that’s happened since), by Paul from The Dark Mountain Project:
Writing about the Copenhagen summit – indeed, writing about climate change in general – is starting to make me feel like the Grinch who stole [...] Read more »
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