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By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2011
The US debt ceiling bill is a triumph for the Tea Party. It represents the victory of the wealthiest 1% over the rest of the citizenry.
Posted in Featured, Politics, USA | Tagged debt ceiling crisis, george monbiot, John Quiggin, Tea Party, US politics, wealth |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Climate change, collective action, Copenhagen, Energy, George Bush, george monbiot, Naomi Klein, oil, Open Democracy, political economy, Politics, Sociology, US, USA |
By Brian on May 4, 2009
In the discussion thread of the post Climate crunch carbonsink @ 131 linked to Monbiot’s 2006 piece on air travel. Here’s an extract: …while the mean distance travelled by car in the UK is 9,200 miles per year, in a [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment | Tagged air travel, emissions targets, george monbiot, Gwynne Dyer |
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