Environmental Justice

The Climate Change Flap at the G8: A Spat over Detail, not Substance
Walden Bello
The climate change section of G8 declaration is really one long and all-too transparent exercise to get around the reality that the only real effective response to climate change is radically reduced economic growth rates and consumption levels, particularly in the North, and in the very near future.
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Floundering on climate change
Praful Bidwai
India's position on climate change at the G-8 summit was deeply flawed and undermines its claim to responsible leadership.
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Green Market Hustlers
Michael K. Dorsey
The market-based approaches to climate change shift the burden of consequences to the disadvantaged and marginalised. The industrialised countries and corporations owe the victims of climate change full compensation for their losses, thus making the climate justice movement one of liberation as well as economic and ideological sovereignty.
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Right to be suspicious
William Gumede
Climate change cannot be tackled if existing injustices in global politics are overlooked. The solution to both must begin with genuine efforts to change the inequitable global trade, political and financial systems.
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Environmental Justice
Susan George
Contemporary economists have lost track of the ability to take account of the earth's resources. Can we talk about environmental justice in a world characterised by tremendous inequalities and by capitalism?
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A G-5 Alternative To The G-8?
Praful Bidwa
The G8 is suffering from a serious credibility crisis, widely seen as promoting the narrow self-interest of rich countries. India, like other G5 countries (China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico) will only have their own credibility when they start to resist the US's imperial project, and proactively support the interests of a majority of the world's peoples
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A Liberal Interpretation of 'Normal'
Boris Kagarlitsky
After the G8 meeting Putin seems to have come out as an open sceptic of the WTO, but he still hasn't realized that this could be channelled into spearheading a gradual process of realignment among discontented nations in the developing world to create an alternative trade organization to the WTO
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La industrialización acelerada en China

El fin del romance? La industrialización acelerada, el partido y el campesinado en China
Walden Bello
La corrupción, que se multiplicó entre los cuadros del partido lo que contribuyó a empeorar la relación ya de por sí volátil entre los campesinos y el partido, y cuando se vio a los funcionarios locales del partido apoyar o mimar a elementos mafiosos aumentó el enojo de los campesinos contra aquellos a quienes parecían considerar ahora como sus nuevos señores feudales.
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