Who will win green socialism: workers, or a vague alliance? | Workers' Liberty

The book, The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction (2009) is edited by the Canadian Trotskyist Ian Angus and published by Socialist Resistance, the erstwhile British section of the Trotskyist Fourth International (USFI).
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The communist movement that coalesced after the 1917 Russian revolution also articulated similar views. In 1923 the Communist International published a primer. A Short Course of Economic Science had been written by Bogdanov in 1897 and was revised with Dvolaitsky in 1919. In the final chapter it argued that the “exhaustion of the main sources of steam power, coal and oil” was “inevitable”. This led to “the necessity for the transition to electricity”, and this will “create the possibility of making use of all waterfalls, all flowing water (even the tides of the oceans), and the intermittent energy of the wind which can be collected with the aid of accumulators, etc”.

Brazil says U.S. climate goal unacceptable

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc said on Wednesday that U.S. targets for greenhouse gas emissions are unacceptably weak and that Brazil will place new restrictions on its huge farm sector to cut deforestation.

Google on global warming: [Not willing to part with billions of their own cash, they want the government to spend billions of YOUR cash]

The company has pushed ahead in addressing climate change issues as a philanthropic effort through its Google.org arm.

Weihl said there is a lack of companies that have ideas that would be considered breakthroughs in the green technology sector. After announcing its plans to create renewable energy at a price lower than power from coal, it has invested less than $50 million in other companies.

Weihl said Google had not intended to invest much more in early years, but that there was little to buy.

"I would say it's reasonable to be a little bit discouraged there and from my point of view, it's not right to be seriously discouraged," he said. "There isn't enough investment going into the early stages of investment pipeline before the venture funds come into the play."

The U.S. government needs to provide more funds to develop ideas at the laboratory stage, he said.

GOOG: Balance Sheet for Google Inc. - Yahoo! Finance

[12/31/08] Cash And Cash Equivalents [8.6 billion]